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Police nab wanted man after 24-hour search By Kim Shute BUREAU-PUTNAM BUREAU CHIEF
PRINCETON — Heavy police presence in Princeton on Tuesday did little to reassure citizens about a reported fugitive, but it paid off when several agencies surrounded and arrested the man they’d been hunting all day. Carlos D. Estade, 48, from Miami Beach, Fla., was taken into custody after a brief foot pursuit at approximately 7:15 p.m. near Freedom House on Elm Place by officers from Illinois State Estade Police, Illinois State SWAT, Bureau County Sheriff’s Office, Princeton Police Department and Bureau County Emergency Management Agency. The search started the previous evening when Estade reportedly fled a traffic stop not far from Monterey Mushrooms on U.S. 6. By early Tuesday morning, it was reported that Estade, who wasn’t yet publicly named, was seen on foot in Princeton. Both the elementary and high schools went on soft lock-down, keeping students in the building for the day. At about 10 a.m. a large number of state troopers were called to a house on Sixth Street, north of Liberty Village, where they conducted a K-9 seach of outbuildings and surrounding fields. It was reported Estade abandoned a crashed vehicle there — no word yet on where he obtained it. After a brief search the area was cleared. Shortly after noon, state and Princeton police were called to the vicinity of a North Main Street business for a possible See NAB Page A2
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Thomas Laible of Henry works with Illinois Valley Community College instructor Tony Sondgeroth. Sondgeroth’s class is creating a steel sculpture for the Surround of Honor in Illini State Park, Marseilles.
Sculpting a memorial IVCC welding class does its part to honor fallen soldiers By Derek Barichello SHAW MEDIA
When a volunteer approached Illinois Valley Community College instructor Tony Sondgeroth about his class creating a steel sculpture for the Surround of Honor in Illini State Park, Sondgeroth said “there was no way I could tell him no.” “We were going to find a way to do this,” the instructor said. His students felt the same way, seeing it as an opportunity to create a real-world project. “You have to use your head,” said Thomas Laible of Henry of the experience. “It’s not just reading off paper, or a worksheet.” The roughly 700-pound rust
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built, it will be here for a long time.” Reed took the lead in improving the design. She wants to go into production welding for a career, but in between classes, she makes welding sculptures, using her artistic talents to make welding more fun. The project even had a short time when the computer system went down, making Reed draw designs “the old-fashioned way.” Sondgeroth sought out Laible to be another volunteer. “He said he needed my knowledge of the PlasmaCam table, my eye for design,” Laible said. The computer-controlled PlasmaCam table uses a plasma torch to cut and reproduce designs. Creating the soldier sculp-
ture was Laible’s first “big project.” Working for the last couple of weeks, Laible edited the design program, made the first cutout, then made the actual sculpture about 30% bigger. “It’s awesome; I didn’t think much about it at first,” Laible said. “I thought it would be another project with the PlasmaCam, but I’m really excited knowing this is going up as a tribute, a thank you to everyone, the soldiers who gave their life. This will be standing for the next 60 years. It’ll be there for awhile, and knowing that feels pretty great, actually.” Sondgeroth said several students from his class would take See SCULPTURE Page A2
State Department worried about defending Ukraine ambassador By Matthew Lee
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steel sculpture of a soldier kneeling toward the boots and gun of a fallen soldier will be a part of the Marseilles memorial paying tribute to all of Illinois’ fallen soldiers from Middle East conflicts. It is scheduled to be dedicated at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8. Sondgeroth announced he had an extra project if any students wanted to help. Rebecca Reed, of La Salle, was one of the volunteers, because “the fun part of welding is doing this kind of stuff.” Reed participated in the creation of the Heritage Park Vintage Wall Mural in Streator, and remembered the payoff. “It’s a great feeling,” said Reed, a St. Bede graduate. “After this is
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department’s third-ranking official is expected to tell House impeachment investigators Wednesday that political considerations were behind the agency’s refusal to deliver a robust defense of the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. People familiar with the matter say the highest-ranking career diplomat in the foreign service, David Hale, plans to say that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other senior officials determined that defending
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch would hurt the effort to free up U.S. military assistance to Ukraine. Hale, who arrived Wednesday morning to testify behind closed doors, will also say that the State Department worried about the reaction from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, also one of the strongest advocates for removing the ambassador. Meanwhile, State Department Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, who was subpoenaed to appear before the impeachment panel, was on the plane with Pompeo, who departed early Wednesday
morning for Germany. Two other witnesses who were scheduled for Wednesday — Russ Vought, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Rick Perry, the Energy secretary — are not expected to show up. Yovanovitch, who was removed from her posting in May, has already appeared before investigators in the impeachment inquiry into Trump. She detailed efforts by Giuliani and other Trump allies to push her out of Ukraine, testifying that a senior Ukrainian official told her that “I really needed to watch my back.”
Hale is expected to shed more light on why the State Department did not step up to defend its top envoy in Kyiv. According to the people familiar with the matter, he will say he tried to distance himself and the department from the matter by removing himself from email chains about Yovanovitch. Hale, for example, never responded to an email sent by former top Pompeo adviser Michael McKinley urging Pompeo to speak out in defense of Yovanovitch after the White House released a partial transcript of Trump’s phone call with See UKRAINE Page A2
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