Semi-Car Collide Near Prison Today

January 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

AN OWANECO FIREMAN douses flames of a car involved in an accident with a semi on Illinois Route 29, about three-quarters of a mile south of the Taylorville Correctional Center. The accident occurred about 12:30 p.m. today, Thursday, Jan. 19. No details were available at press time today, however, it was reported the Christian County Coroner’s Office was called to the scene. Illinois State Police accident reconstructionists have been called to the scene. (Gene Reed Photo) (Following publication, the Illinois State Police reported the driver of the car, Reynaldo Tapia III, 36, Morrisonville,... [Read the full story]

Area News

First Baptist Church Pana ‘Outdoor Adventure’ Feb. 4

January 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Gary Anderson First Baptist Church of Pana will be conducting an Outdoor Adventure on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 3:00-7:00 p.m. The event will feature Gary Anderson, National Wild Turkey Federation award winning turkey call maker and founder of Daybreak Calls – www.daybreakturkeycalls.com. Gary will give a workshop as well as an inspirational message. Phillips Taxidermy is providing a display of deer and turkey mounts www.phillipstaxidermy.com. A pulled pork, venison chili, and homemade pie supper will be included. Door prizes will be given along with drawings for a $100 Scheels gift card,... [Read the full story]

Sports

Panthers Drop SCC Contest To Litchfield Monday Night, 53-45

January 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A frantic fourth quarter comeback fell short for the Pana Panthers girls basketball team Tuesday night, Jan. 17, as they dropped their first conference game in almost 2 years to the Litchfield Purple Panthers, 53-45. Pana trailed 47-28 after three quarters before they came storming back and scored 17 points in the fourth quarter and held Litchfield to just 6. The loss ended a 24-game South Central Conference winning streak for the Panthers. It was the first South Central Conference loss for the Panthers since Feb. 4, 2010, when Pana lost at Hillsboro and the first home conference loss for Pana... [Read the full story]

Out in Left Field

Out in Left Field: January 16, 2012

January 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Noticed today, like the groundhog on Groundhog’s Day, bunches of Bears fans (and Vikings and Lions fans as well) are coming out of their holes and crowing about the demise of the Green Bay Packers Sunday. This was something I think a lot of people saw coming. Ever since the loss at Kansas City, there was just something which didn’t feel right about the Packers. Will never agree with coaches who “rest” their players the last game or so at the end of the season when they have home field or a play-off berth wrapped up. Think about it. . . . Aaron Rodgers hadn’t played in a real game since... [Read the full story]

Fact, Fun & Fillips

Fact, Fun & Fillips: January 19, 2012

January 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

So many items could and should write about, but it seems subjects and brain cells are evaporating day by day. We do love to look through our desk drawers – the desk situated immediately behind the partition wall (north to south) that you see separating the front office from the entire back shop when you enter our front door. It’s a deal where, if you’re asking us the size of our business building, and well, it depends how you look at it! You could say, playing games – it’s about 5 or 6 rooms, forgetting to mention that all action takes place on one floor divided into 2 rooms of working... [Read the full story]

Kids Korner

Kids’ Korner: January 19, 2012

January 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Hey people of Pana, Jacob here. And I wanted to talk about how the Packers lost! I was watching the Packers game, but it just got out of hand. On a different note, the St. Pat’s seventh grade boys regionals are starting this coming Monday over at Tower Hill. Also, the Pana Junior High seventh grade play in the regionals, too, but they are in a higher class at the junior high gym. Good luck to them, too. Well, that’s what I wanted to talk about. See ya next week! ––––– Be sure all you kids out there between seven and 15 send me in your short stories to be printed in the Pana News-Palladium.... [Read the full story]

Semi-Car Collide Near Prison Today

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Soccer Backers Speak; Cothern To Retire; TIF Conversation

It was a busy night for members of the Pana School Board at their regular meeting for January on Monday, Jan. 16, in the Unit Office on East Main St. in Pana. Almost 25 supporters of soccer as a high school sport filled the small meeting room for a presentation by Pana Youth Soccer League officials with a proposal. All...

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Cody Johnston Pleads Guilty To Murder of John Russell

Cody Johnston, 20, of Shelbyville pleaded guilty Thursday, Jan. 12 to the December 2010 murder of a rural Ramsey man, in Montgomery County court, Hillsboro. The original first-count charge of aggravated battery with a firearm was reduced to second degree murder. The other two counts, unlawful restraint and murder with...

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