Congressman Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, was in Springfield Thursday to argue the proposed General Assembly maps Democrats passed last Friday divide up communities like Springfield.
Maria Mosley, who graduated from SIU School of Medicine Saturday, will train in emergency medicine at New York Public Hospital-Columbia & Cornell-New York
A woman is dead after a shooting Friday near Dubois Elementary and Sacred Heart-Griffin High.
Springfield Police responded to a shots fired call in the 200 block of North Lincoln Avenue just before noon.
“Upon arrival, it was clear by our officers that there was a deceased victim and another individual who was armed with a handgun,” said SPD assistant chief of police Ken Scarlette. “After several tense moments of negotiations, several members of our emergency response team and other officers were able to utilize less lethal [force] and take the subject into custody.”
Local police contacted officials at Dubois Elementary and Sacred Heart-Griffin High, as both schools were placed under brief lockdowns that had been lifted by 12:45 p.m.
Photo by Bruce Rushton When the city sued two years ago to force fixes to this house, it discovered that the owner had died in 1964. Eyesores can last years in Springfield. Consider 2809 Poplar Avenue. In lieu of shingles, a sheet of plastic is nailed to part of the roof. A green notice posted by city inspectors who declared the building unsafe has faded from the sun. Roxana Talley, who has lived next door for two decades, said that the last resident moved a couple years ago after spending the last year or so living in a shed in the backyard because the house wasn t habitable. When he turned 62, Talley says, he moved into a high-rise apartment in another part of town.