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DeKALB – Sunny and breezy weather today is expected to present few problems for drivers after Monday’s snowstorm left several cars in ditches and closed Kishwaukee College early. The temperature is expected to climb today to 37 degrees with winds gusting as high as 30 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Even with the relatively
high winds, Northern Illinois University meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste said the snow will be heavy and wet, which means little drifting. Winds will gust this afternoon out of the west and southwest area
at 10 to 15 mph, Sebenste said. “Outside of some blowing snow in open and rural areas, it won’t be bad,” he said. This expected weather is a welcome change from Monday, when the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office reported multiple cars in ditches at the intersection of Malta Road and Route 64. DeKalb County received 4 inches of snow. The average snow depth is now 18 inches, Sebenste said. There were also reports
of thunder and lightning during the snowstorm, which only occurs about once every three years, Sebenste said. An NIU student reported hearing thunder, which was confirmed with the National Lightning Detection Networks. There also were some confirmed lightning and thunder reports near Paw Paw and east of DeKalb, Sebenste said.
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Plank and Peace roads are maintained Monday by DeKalb County’s plow trucks.
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Ethiopian co-pilot hijacks plane
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By GEIR MOULSON and JOHN HEILPRIN The Associated Press
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Preschool teacher Lynn Kohley hands Cassidy Gerken some bookmarks during a good sportsmanship activity Thursday at the Children’s Learning Center. By DEBBIE BEHRENDS dbehrends@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Nancy Teboda was pleased when Gov. Pat Quinn announced he wanted to beef up early childhood education in Illinois. The increased funding will help more DeKalb County families access quality programs, said Teboda, executive director of DeKalb’s Children’s Learning Center. “Research has shown for years that early childhood education is important for children to succeed,” Teboda said. “We know there are a lot of families who struggle to enroll their children because they can’t afford it.” During his State of the State address in January, Quinn said he wants to increase access to prenatal care, early learning and parental support. Although he said putting more resources into
Preschooler Ashton Grant puts together a dinosaur puzzle Thursday at the Children’s Learning Center. early education will pay off in the future, he did not provide details on how much the initiative will cost or how it will be run. From the perspective of child care, 4-C Director Susan
Peterson said it’s their job to educate parents on how to find quality child care and to help them find affordable solutions. “You can’t go to work or school if you’re children aren’t
cared for,” Peterson said. “We do have financial assistance available to help parents, which in turn will help them climb the economic ladder.” Peterson said in 2012 nationwide agencies such as 4-C fielded nearly 25,000 calls from families looking for quality child care. Finding affordable solutions can be difficult, especially when Teboda said the state’s Child Care Assistance Program guidelines changed a few years ago, resulting in the loss of about 12 families in her facility. The program provides low-income working families with a subsidy for child care on a sliding scale based on family size, income and the number of children in care. “Co-pays went up, income eligibility guidelines went down,” Teboda said.
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GENEVA – It seemed like a routine overnight flight until the Ethiopian Airlines jetliner went into a dive and oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. Only then did the terrified passengers – bound for Italy from Addis Ababa – realize something was terribly wrong. The co-pilot had locked his captain from the cockpit, commandeered the plane, and headed for Geneva, where he used a rope to lower himself out of a window, then asked for political asylum. Authorities said a prison cell is more likely. One passenger said the hijacker threatened to crash the plane if the pilot didn’t stop pounding on the locked door. Another said he was terrified “for hours” Monday as the plane careened across the sky. “It seemed like it was falling from the sky,” 45-year-old Italian Diego Carpelli said of the Boeing 767-300. The jetliner carrying 200 passengers and crew took off from the Ethiopian capital on a flight to Milan and then Rome, but sent a distress message over Sudan that it had been hijacked, an Ethiopian official said. Once the plane was over Europe, two Italian fighter jets and later French jets were scrambled to accompany it. Italian air force Col. Girolamo Iadiciccio said the order to scramble came from NATO to ensure the plane didn’t harm national security and didn’t stray off-route. The plane landed in Geneva at about 6 a.m. Officials said no one on the flight was injured and the hijacker was taken into custody after surrendering to Swiss police. “The pilot went to the toilet and [the co-pilot] locked himself in the cockpit,” Geneva airport chief executive Robert Deillon told reporters. He “wanted asylum in Switzerland.”
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Police stand on the stairs after passengers were evacuated from a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane Monday at the airport in Geneva, Switzerland.
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