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GOOD MORNING Murder unsolved eight years later MONGO — It’s been nearly eight years since her father and stepmother were murdered, but when October arrives, Sherry Musilek says she becomes a very different person. “Yeah, every year when October comes around, I go into a different mood,” she said. “I can’t help but think, ‘Here comes another memorial.’” Musilek’s father, Mongo resident Terry Anderson, and his wife, Darlene, were murdered eight years ago. Their case remains unsolved, so Musilek once again will mark the anniversary of their deaths by holding a somber memorial service in the Mongo cemetery where the Andersons are buried. This year’s ceremony takes place Sunday at 1 p.m. “It’s been another year without any leads,” said Eric Musilek, Sherry’s husband. Early on the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, the bodies of Anderson and his wife were found brutally murdered at their rural Mongo home. Darlene Anderson’s body was discovered inside the house, Terry Anderson’s body was found near the house in his shop. Several unique and antique weapons Terry Anderson owned turned up missing, along with several collectible coins he and his wife had. None of those items ever have been ever been found. The crime attracted national attention and was featured on an episode of the television show “America’s Most Wanted.” Musilek and her family set up a reward, offering $20,000 to the person who helps identify and convict her father’s killer. But so far, no one has come forward to collect that reward.
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Power line move jolts neighbors Airport Authority hears objections BY AARON ORGAN aorgan@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — The DeKalb County Airport Authority board at its regular meeting Friday again was peppered with questions from residents about moving electric lines away from airport property. Thursday night, residents met with representatives from American Electric Power, which
plans to move and upgrade its lines near the airport to sites between C.R. 29 and 31 directly on and above residential properties. The board has an agreement with AEP to move lines for $2.6 million as part of the airport’s planned runway extension project, because the lines interfere with flight patterns. The lines need to
be moved whether the runway extension occurs or not, the board has been told. Residents who are upset about the new sites for high-voltage lines have approached the Airport Authority since it agreed to the plan and learned where AEP planned to move the lines. The board has maintained it has little or no say in where the utility places its lines. Airport Authority board president Brad Stump said the
residents’ meeting with AEP representatives Thursday night at the airport was well attended. Stump said AEP officials answered some questions from residents, but also handed out and received comment cards. AEP will respond with answers to questions on those cards, Stump said. Friday, residents continued asking the board why AEP could not find a new path or bury the lines. One resident pressed the SEE POWER LINE, PAGE A7
GOP rift seen in shutdown
Tea party doesn’t want to ‘fight another day’
DAVE KURTZ
Hiking to fight hunger An organizer said Friday that more than 100 people — including these youngsters — joined the annual Northeast Indiana CROP Hunger Walk in Auburn Sunday. The event raised money to fight hunger overseas and through four local charities — St. Martin’s Community Kitchen in Garrett, the Friends’ Table at Auburn Presbyterian Church, Butler Food Pantry at the Butler United Methodist Church and Boomerang Backpack. Organizers have not yet compiled the amount of money raised.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans’ clear defeat in the budget-debt brawl has widened the rift between the Grand Old Party and the blossoming tea party movement that helped revive it. Implored by House Speaker John Boehner to unite and “fight another day” against President Barack Obama and Democrats, Republicans instead intensified attacks on one another, an ominous sign in advance of more difficult policy fights and the 2014 midterm elections. The tea party movement spawned by the passage of Obama’s health care overhaul three years ago put the GOP back in charge of the House and in hot pursuit of the law’s repeal. The effort hit a wall this month in the budget and debt fight, but tea partyers promised to keep up the effort. Whatever the future of the troubled law, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell vowed he would not permit another government shutdown. “I think we have now fully acquainted our new members with what a losing strategy that is,” McConnell said in an interview with The Hill newspaper. Tea party Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told ABC News he wouldn’t
rule out using the tactic again, when the same budget and debt questions come up next year. “I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare,” Cruz said. That divide defined the warring Republican factions ahead of the midterm elections, when 35 seats in the Democratic-controlled Senate and all 435 seats in the Republican-dominated House will be on the ballot. In the nearer term, difficult debates over immigration and farm policy loom, along with another round of budget and debt talks. The animosity only intensified as lawmakers fled Washington this week for a few days’ rest. The Twitterverse crackled with threats, insults and the names of the 27 GOP senators and 87 GOP House members who voted for the leadership’s agreement that reopened the government and raised the nation’s borrowing limit. Republicans got none of their demands, keeping only the spending cuts they had won in 2011. Within hours, TeaParty. net tweeted a link to the 114 lawmakers, tagging each as a Republican in name only who should be turned out of office: “Your 2014 #RINO hunting list!”
Gasoline leak creates headache for county Budget held clue to hidden problem BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — A budget-savvy sheriff. Work done three decades ago. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management. And maybe down the road an arrest. DeKalb County officials have had their hands full with a fuel leak at the county highway department on Nineteenth Street in Auburn. Exactly how much gasoline has leaked is not known. “No drinking water has been impacted,” said Dan Goldblatt, public information officer with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, which has been monitoring the situation from the start. “There are no wells in the area.” No fines will be assessed involving the spill, Goldblatt added. “Nobody has done anything wrong,” he said. Through Wednesday, the county had spent $30,000 dealing with the issue that literally was uncovered by DeKalb County Sheriff Don Lauer going over budget numbers for his department last spring.
County workers and an environmental rehabilitation crew were busy this month excavating a 40-by-40-foot hole around a former above-ground fueling station after standing gasoline was found. Seven county departments, including the sheriff’s department, used the fueling site. Work to control the leaked fuel is being overseen by IDEM’s Rich Hackler. Tests are being conducted on the fuel to determine how long it had been in the ground. Until those tests return, officials won’t know if the leak came from the above-ground tank or a buried tank that was sealed by the county in 1990. It could be a combination of the two. Cedar Creek runs within 270 feet of the site. according to DeKalb County Homeland Security director Roger Powers. No gasoline has been found in the creek, and monitoring stations have been installed to make sure none reaches it. Booms have been placed in the creek to catch gasoline if any does get into the creek. Goldblatt said wildlife in the waters has not been affected.
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This photo, provided by the DeKalb County Department of Homeland Security, shows a 40-by-40-foot area that was excavated at the DeKalb County Highway Department on Nineteenth Street in Auburn. The ground was contaminated by gasoline, and 400 tons of contaminated soil had to be removed.
Excavation at the site went down to the water table, and special venting pipes have been installed to collect any gasoline that may come toward the surface when the water table rises. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is overseeing the work and the monitoring, which will need to
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continue for the foreseaeable future. Goldblatt said the matter is in the process of being shifted from IDEM’s emergency response team to its state cleanup division. He praised the county’s handling of the situation. “They’re being very cooperSEE LEAK, PAGE A7
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