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DEATH ON INTERSTATE 88
Man shot, killed in police confrontation
REMEMBERING JFK IN THE SAUK VALLEY
Inside In the Classroom: On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a class at Newman High School talks about the event. Page A3 Second Opinion: “That was the memory of our generation,” Executive Editor Larry Lough writes. Page A7 In Your Words: More letters from Sauk Valley residents about their memories of that awful day on Nov. 22, 1963. Pages A8-10
NOV. 1 FIRE
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An Illinois State Police trooper walks past the scene on Interstate 88 Friday morning near Rock Falls where a driver from Ohio had pinned another trooper against his vehicle before being shot and killed by a state conservation officer.
Trooper pinned between vehicles, injured BY CHRISTI WARREN cwarren@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 521
ROCK FALLS — One man is dead and an Illinois state trooper was injured Friday during a traffic stop on eastbound Interstate 88 near the exit for U.S. Route 30, an Illinois Department of Natural
Resources official said. At 10:44 a.m., a state conservation officer assisted a man driving a minivan with Ohio plates at Burns and Albany roads in Whiteside County, said Robert Frazier, Region 1 commander for the IDNR’s conservation police. Afterward, that same driver called
911, making statements that prompted officers to check on him again. The van later was spotted heading east on Interstate 88, just west of Route 30, Commander Frazier said. SHOT CONTINUED ON A11
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EDUCATION | COLLEGE COSTS
Sauk’s tuition lower than most Local college straightforward with its numbers BY DAVID GIULIANI dgiuliani@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 525
DIXON – Sauk Valley Community College is among the more inexpensive schools in Illinois. Of the 39 other community colleges in Illinois, Sauk’s tuition is lower than 28. Its tuition is higher than 10 and equal to another. At Sauk, tuition is $103 a credit hour. Costs range from $89 at City Colleges of Chicago to $145 at Spoon River College in central Illinois’ Canton. In northwest Illinois, Rock-
ford’s Rock Valley College and LaSalle County’s Illinois Valley Community College are lower than Sauk, at $97 and $101, respectively. Other regional colleges come in higher: DeKalb County’s Kishwaukee College at $113, Moline’s Black Hawk College at $115, and Freeport’s Highland Community College at $131. On its site, Sauk is more straightforward with its tuition information. It lists the total cost per credit hour on its website, including per-credit fees. Many colleges, however, feature their tuition per credit, but leave out the per-credit Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com fees, which are for things such as activities, construction and Sauk Valley Community College students work on projects on technology. One has to dig a lit- computers in the campus library. Sauk students pay a lesser tle deeper for that information. tuition than many of their collegiate counterparts. Of the 39 other community colleges in Illinois, Sauk’s tuition is lower than TUITION CONTINUED ON A5 28.
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VOLUME 6 ISSUE 13 44 Pages
Today: 25/5 For the forecast, see Page A9
Digital eyes
A look through the digital lens at the 2013 prep football season. See Page C12
New film for Forest Whitaker reflects on family, food, and “Black Nativity” Also inside USA Weekend: Tips to fight heartburn Recipe for warm potato cakes
A rescue attempt in Dixon ‘You just keep thinking how badly you want to help’ BY CHRISTI WARREN cwarren@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 521
DIXON – It was pitch black at 4:15 on the morning of Nov. 1. David Considine, 53, was leaving for work. A heavy-equipment operator at a factory out of town, he always leaves this early, making the trip from the home he shares with his fiancée. But on Nov. 1, something was different. He saw a spark in the darkness out of the corner of his eye, and to the south – a large, orange glow. “It looked like a firework,” he later said. His first thought was that it must be a barn on fire, but then he wasn’t so sure. “I drove down the street, and there was a newspaper delivery driver,” Considine said, “and I got out and asked him if he called 911, and he didn’t, so I did.” That was at 4:19. A woman who answered the emergency line walked Considine through what would be a tense next 5 minutes and 50 seconds as he waited for emergency personnel to arrive. Lee County 911, where’s your emergency? “911?” Yes, 911. “There’s a house on fire.” He tried to relay the address, but wasn’t quite sure. Another man at the scene ran to figure out the street name. Clearview. ATTEMPT CONTINUED ON A5
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