MILLSTADT, Ill. The winding, narrow road to Booker T. Washington Cemetery off Illinois 163 between Millstadt and Cahokia Heights is ominous. It s inundated with potholes and doesn t give any sign of where it leads. It is mysterious.
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You took him all over again : Centerville woman searching for late father s boat after it was stolen
She says a white truck was caught on camera pulling out of the neighborhood with her late father s fishing boat in tow Author: Sarah Hammond Updated: 7:13 PM EDT May 18, 2021
CENTERVILLE, Ga. A Centerville woman is asking the thieves who stole her late father s fishing boat to bring it back.
A Leah Mincey got a call Friday afternoon that her boat was missing from her garage. I came home hoping it was a bad dream, only to find out that it was actually gone.
But it wasn t just any fishing boat. It belonged to her father, who died from cancer six years ago.
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Carlos Glenn, president of the Nu Gamma Sigma Alumni Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. , explains his fraternity’s plans to clean Booker T. Washington Cemetery in Millstadt. Between 1919 and the early 1970s, more than 12,000 Black people mainly from the East St. Louis, Alorton and Centreville areas were buried in the cemetery.
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The winding, narrow road to Booker T. Washington Cemetery off Illinois 136 near Centreville is ominous. It’s inundated with potholes and doesn’t give any sign of where it leads. It is mysterious.
GBI investigating after couple found dead in Centerville home
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HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. Authorities are investigating after two people were found dead in a home in Centerville on Tuesday.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, a man later identified as 41-year-old Timothy Price called Centerville dispatch around 8:52 a.m. to report that he d shot his wife, 36-year-old Katherine Price and needed help.
When local authorities responded to the couple s home in Centerville s Arbor Creek subdivision, they say no one answered the door. That s when law enforcement walked around to the back, noticed glass on the ground from a back door, and called the Houston County Sheriff s Office s Special Response Team.