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Chillicothe woman killed in wreck on Route 29 Friday
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The Peoria County Coroner released the name of a driver who was killed in a wreck on Illinois Route 29 Friday, despite the 'heroic efforts' of bystanders. Raven Jackson, 30, of Chillicothe, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident at 8:15 a.m. Friday, June 6th, Coroner Jamie Harwood said in a Facebook post. 'Heroic efforts from bystanders were made in an attempt to provide aid for Jackson, but unfortunately, her injuries were incompatible with life,' Harwood said. The woman's car was headed north on Route 29 when it collided with the truck at about 6:53 a.m. near Gardner Lane, according to a spokesman for the Illinois State Police. She suffered severe blunt force injuries from the collisions, she was wearing her seatbelt, he said. No update was given on the other driver's condition. Harwood ended the post by giving the definition of a hero, 'A courageous individual who selflessly puts their own life at risk to aid another, exemplifying bravery, self-sacrifice, and moral integrity in the face of danger.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- General
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FCA debuts new team for all-star game, continues football
TEXOMA (KFDX/KJTL) — For the fifth year, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes is hosting its annual all-star games. This year is a smidge different, it's the first time the organization is featuring a volleyball team. 'It's amazing, it's a big honor,' Megg Lindley said. 'I know pretty much all the girls that I am playing with from tournaments and clubs. It's really cool to play with all the players we've played against.' The program also brings football back for a second year. Marc Bindel debuts as the coach for the Texas team. FCA takes an approach where everyone is welcome, whether its 1A or 6A, they have the best of both six-man and 11 man shining on the field. Kids from Wichita Christian and Chillicothe learning the 11 man game on the fly. 'It's familiar. I played 11 man for the first two years of my high school career,' Sam Machtolff said. 'It's weird. I forget some of the rules don't mix. Like when I see a quarterback scramble, it kind of messes with me.' What sets FCA apart from the other all-star games? 'What I love about the All-Star game is it's one more chance for FCA to talk to the athletes about their relationship with Christ,' Michael Cummings said. 'Everyday at the end of the practices, we have a devotional. We have been excited to be able to just sit and talk to the athletes and prepare them for life and what life looks like after high school.' For the full story, click on the video at the top of this web story. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
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Ross County home listings asked for more money in April - see the current median price here
The median home in Ross County listed for $273,700 in April, up 3.9% from the previous month's $263,450, an analysis of data from shows. Compared to April 2024, the median home list price increased 9.3% from $250,500. The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Ross County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at Ross County's median home was 74 square feet, listed at $0.22 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 8.9% from April 2024. Listings in Ross County moved briskly, at a median 49 days listed compared to the April national median of 50 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 54 days on the market. Around 44 homes were newly listed on the market in April, the same number of new listings from April 2024. The median home prices issued by may exclude many, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales. Across the Chillicothe metro area, median home prices rose to $267,450, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 76 square feet, at a list price of $0.22 per square foot. In Ohio, median home prices were $275,525, a slight increase from March. The median Ohio home listed for sale had 15,498 square feet, with a price of $0.15 per square foot. Throughout the United States, the median home price was $431,250, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 467,514 square feet, with a price of $0.18 per square foot. The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price. The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu. Our News Automation and AI team would like to hear from you. Take this survey and share your thoughts with us. This article originally appeared on Chillicothe Gazette: Ross County home listings asked for more money in April - see the current median price here
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard breaks down in tears over 'sacred' betrayal
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard broke down in tears and declared that she wanted to finally end the 'reputation' war between herself and ex-husband Ryan Scott Anderson - five months after their divorce was finalized. The 33-year-old ex-con and the 38-year-old special education teacher's 20-month marriage effectively ended in March 2024 when she surreptitiously rekindled her on/off romance with fiancé Ken Urker. Gypsy-Rose immediately got pregnant with now four-month old daughter Aurora Raina Urker four months following her release from the Chillicothe Correctional Center for second-degree murder. On Tuesday, Blanchard was outraged over Ryan posting a screengrab of their January 14th text exchange where she admitted to feeling 'lost, like, I don't know what is real anymore' during her first weeks post-partum. Anderson captioned his TikTok from last Saturday: 'I speak the truth... always have. Only be real.' 'Whenever you put out text messages between you and I that I think are sacred. That should, in my opinion, be sacred between us. And when I mean sacred, I mean that, there are very few people I trust in this world. And I have always counted you as one of them,' the Life After Lock Up star said in a 10-minute TikTok video. 'Seeing that text message that you released for what? For what?! Because you wanted to show that you were the truth-teller on TikTok? Well, that hurt my trust.' This, after Gypsy-Rose fully admitted she had 'put out personal information of yours that I knew that you didn't want out there' that was 'below the belt and [went] too far.' 'I'm sorry. I truly am sorry, even if you get me many other jabs, I won't put out anything else about you,' Blanchard promised. 'I'm not going to try to hurt you. I know that in your heart that you care about me. And I'm just sorry. I'm sorry that you fell in love with a piece of s*** like me.' The My Time to Stand co-author also admitted it must 'be really hard' for Ryan watching her and Ken's baby bliss on her Lifetime reality show, but she's 'just tired of this war and I want it to end.' 'I hate that we keep doing this back and forth, but we're not trying to hurt each other, we're trying to hurt each other's reputations,' Gypsy-Rose explained. 'I can't keep texting you. I can't keep talking to you. I have a whole family. I'm in a committed relationship. I have a daughter with this man. We can't be friends. Do you understand what position I'm in? As long as I keep talking to you, you feel some sort of connection. But that can't be. We can't do that. We're not at that space.' Blanchard continued: 'I want you to be happy. I want you to move on. I want you to move on with someone that's going to make you happy, that's going to love you like you should be loved. And I know that it's hard because I get it. I did you wrong and I'm sorry for that.' The Louisiana native blissfully recalled a time when Anderson didn't even care about social media: 'It was never about the public back then. And it's so hard to see what you have become.' The Life After Lock Up star said in a 10-minute TikTok video: 'Whenever you put out text messages between you and I that I think are sacred. That should, in my opinion, be sacred between us. And when I mean sacred, I mean that, there are very few people I trust in this world. And I have always counted you as one of them' She continued: 'Seeing that text message that you released for what? For what?! Because you wanted to show that you were the truth-teller on TikTok? Well, that hurt my trust' Blanchard promised: 'I'm sorry. I truly am sorry, even if you get me many other jabs, I won't put out anything else about you. I'm not going to try to hurt you. I know that in your heart that you care about me. And I'm just sorry. I'm sorry that you fell in love with a piece of s*** like me' (pictured April 17) The My Time to Stand co-author also admitted it must 'be really hard' for Ryan watching her and Ken's baby bliss on her Lifetime reality show, but she's 'just tired of this war and I want it to end' Gypsy-Rose explained: 'I hate that we keep doing this back and forth, but we're not trying to hurt each other, we're trying to hurt each other's reputations' The Louisiana native blissfully recalled a time when Anderson didn't even care about social media: 'It was never about the public back then. And it's so hard to see what you have become' (pictured October 29) In 2015, Gypsy-Rose gave her online boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn (R) - who had an IQ of 82 - duct tape, gloves, and a knife to stab her physically-abusive mother Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard 17 times in the back while she slept in her bed The conspiring couple then stole $4,400 in cash from Dee Dee (R) and mailed the murder weapon back to the autistic 35-year-old's home in Wisconsin where they fled by bus And while The Kardashians guest star served eight years of her decade-long sentence for second-degree murder, Godejohn is serving a life sentence without parole at Missouri's Potosi Correctional Center plus an additional 25 years for armed criminal action Catch more of Gypsy-Rose's continuing drama on the second season of Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, which airs Mondays on Lifetime. In 2015, Blanchard gave her online boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn - who had an IQ of 82 - duct tape, gloves, and a knife to stab her physically-abusive mother Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard 17 times in the back while she slept in her bed. The conspiring couple then stole $4,400 in cash from Dee Dee and mailed the murder weapon back to the autistic 35-year-old's home in Wisconsin where they fled by bus. Gypsy-Rose and Nicholas' murder - which they blamed on Dee Dee's undiagnosed Munchausen syndrome by proxy - inspired Hulu's eight-part series The Act and Lifetime movie Love You to Death, both of which were released in 2019. And while Blanchard served eight years of her decade-long sentence for second-degree murder, Godejohn is serving a life sentence without parole at Missouri's Potosi Correctional Center plus an additional 25 years for armed criminal action.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Politics
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Missouri Senate passes bill to fund sheriffs' retirement system
Sen. Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, on the first day of the 2024 Legislative Session (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A bill to fund pensions for Missouri sheriffs from new fees on court documents and a slice of the money the state pays counties to house prisoners passed the state Senate on a nearly unanimous vote Tuesday, potentially rescuing a retirement system that voters refused to support at the ballot in November. Last year, lawmakers appropriated $5 million of general revenue to the Missouri Sheriffs' Retirement System and placed a measure on the November ballot that would have imposed a $3 fee on court cases to keep it solvent in the future. The ballot measure was rejected by 61% of voters, leaving the 5% donation from sheriff's salaries in 114 counties and the city of St. Louis as the fund's only income. Those contributions totaled $89,502 in 2023, according to the system's annual report, while the system paid out $3.8 million in benefits to 147 retired former sheriffs, one disabled former sheriff, and 52 spouses. The administrative costs of the system were $244,454. Prior to 2021, the retirement fund was supported by the court fee but the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that year that it was unconstitutional because it represented a hurdle for citizens to access the courts. Sheriffs currently receive a $10 fee to serve papers in a civil case initiated by a private party, money that is deposited in a special fund to support increased pay for deputies. The bill would raise that fee to $15 in most counties and $20 in the largest, those of the first and second classification, with the extra money going to the retirement system. The bill would maintain the contribution at 5% of salary, and shave $1.75 off the daily amount the state pays for housing prisoners convicted of felonies and sentenced to a term in a state prison. The state currently pays $24.95 per day and whether that amount will be increased by 50 cents per day is an issue to be decided in state budget negotiations. Sheriffs in counties of the first and second classification are paid 80% of the salary of an associate circuit judge, or $130,720 for the year. In other counties, the salary is calculated as a smaller percentage of the judicial salary, based on assessed value of property, with the lowest being about $70,300 per year. There is an exception among the larger counties. Dwayne Carey, the sheriff of Boone County, is paid $174,116 annually because of an anomaly in how the pay was established and a legal inability to reduce it during his tenure in office. State Sen. Rusty Black, a Chillicothe Republican handling the House-passed bill in the Senate, said the bill will put the system on track to pay all its current and future obligations. The fund, he said, currently has about 70% of the money it needs, based on estimates of future market returns and contributions. 'With these three legs on the stool, jail reimbursement, sheriffs (contributions), and then the processing fee, hopefully we're going to raise, the estimate is, somewhere around $3.8 million,' Black said. That would make the system fully funded in about 20 years, he said. The bill needs a final vote in the House before going to Gov. Mike Kehoe for his signature. The budget that must be passed this week also includes $2 million more from state general revenue to keep the system afloat. The budget language also includes a prohibition on using pension system funds for political contributions, a reaction to the fund donating $30,000 to the unsuccessful ballot measure campaign just weeks after receiving the infusion of state cash. The bill began in the House as a proposal to limit the impact of a court judgment on retirement benefits for members of the St. Louis Police Department. The bill has grown to also include: Provisions banning state-established pension funds from making investments where environmental, social or governance concerns influence financial decisions 'in a manner that would override…fiduciary duties'; A ban on pension fund investments in Chinese securities and the withdrawal of funds from pooled investments that include shares in companies based in China or controlled by its government or ruling Communist Party. Funds would have until 2028 to comply; A requirement that Kansas City police officers retire at age 65 or after 35 years on the job, whichever is earlier. The bill required portions of two days to debate in the Senate, where a provision doubling a pension tax exemption for lower-income retirees was stripped from the bill. The tax cut would have reduced state revenue by about $140 million annually. Democrats questioned several provisions. State Sen. Stephen Webber, a Columbia Democrat, said he was surprised to see the provisions barring investment decisions based on governance next to the provision banning investments in China because it is out of political favor. 'I can see both pieces making sense,' Webber said. 'It's just weird to see them both together.' 'That's where you and I work,' Black replied. 'Some days, bill after bill, they all lay together and it seems like we'll all be singing Mary Poppins songs and flying with an umbrella. And then sometimes we end up with stuff like this, that right one right after another in a spreadsheet, and they seem opposite of each other.' The failed ballot measure would have also authorized a court fee to support the pensions of elected prosecutors. 'Do you think that's probably the last fix we'll need on the sheriffs for a while?' state Sen. Tracy McCreery, an OlivetteDemocrat, asked Black. 'I hope so,' he said. 'Prosecuting attorneys are next in line.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
