A jury took only 23 minutes before finding Kimberly Nowlan-McCue guilty of stabbing and killing her onetime friend, Elizabeth Jamison, on New Year's Day.
She faces up to 60 years in prison.
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A 27-year-old Chebanse woman tried to robMario's Market grocery store in Kankakee, and when that failed, she tried to rob a nail salon two blocks away with a knife.
Bobbi Prindle finished 0-for-2 on Thursday morning and was arrested in the salon andcharged with attempted robbery.
Prindle first walked into the grocery store, at 1557 W. Court St., and demanded money from a cashier, according to a Kankakee police report. When the cashier ordered her to leave, she complied.
Prindle then went to a salon in the1600 block of W. Station St. and was found sitting in the salon when she was arrested shortly after 11:30 a.m. She had given a note to one of the salon's employees.
She was taken to Jerome Combs Detention Center.
There'll be no homecoming football game. And no coming home for laundry.
College life is definitely going to change this semester for Reddick's Brittany Ashburn. The 21-year-old international business major is leaving Aug. 27 to study at Shanghai University in China.
"Yes, I'm excited and anxious," said Ashburn, a senior at North Central College in Naperville. "And, no, I can't speak Chinese, yet. I'll be taking classes in Mandarin four hours a day when I get there."
Obviously, Brittany, the daughter of James and Dawn Ashburn, has been thinking about this 7,000-mile adventure for quite awhile.
"We have to study abroad in this major and there's a class that prepares international students. I also have two mentors I've been talking to for awhile," she explained. "There is a lot to learn before you go."
Some of the "Don'ts" on her list:
• Don't talk about the American government or politics at all.
The number of neighbors in Brittany Ashburn's world is about to rise by the millions.
Brittany, a Reddick resident, Herscher High School graduate and student at North Central College in Naperville, is about to embark on a journey to China to study at Shanghai University as part of her pursuit of a degree in international business.
Brittany will be moving into a dorm with an English-speaking Chinese student, who requested to live with an international student. Campus enrollment tops 41,000, with 3,000 from outside the country. The university is a modern consolidation of several colleges. It's set in China's largest city: population 23 million.
"Yes, that's a long way from Reddick [population: 163], but we have at least three field trips, so we will get out in rural areas. I want to see the farms there," she said.
Brittany will take five classes — all with instructors who speak English.
A 20-year-old Joliet woman was stabbed in her sleep with butcher knife by her boyfriend early Monday morning.
She was sleeping in her fifth-floor residence of the Evergreen Terrace housing units when Antonio P. Lawrence, 23, of Harvey, began stabbing her, according to Sun-Times Media.
The attack was unprovoked, police said, and the man stabbed her repeatedly before running out of the apartment.
The woman suffered several wounds to her face and body. She was hospitalized and is expected to survive, according to the Sun-Times.
Meanwhile, the man went the police station and sat on a bench in the lobby. He had a knife next time him, police said, and has been arrested for attempted murder.
“He wouldn’t speak to the clerk at the desk who saw he was covered in blood,' Joliet police commander Brian Benton said. 'Officers came in and took him into custody.'
Then, the subject of her induction into the Illinois 4-H Hall of Fame at the recent Illinois State Fair came up.
She's been described as a long-time leader of the Prairie 4-H Club in the Beecher area. "Thirty-one years," she recalls.
"It's longer than that, Mom," said daughter, Courtney Selucky, "Thirty-three."
Maybe so, Scharnhorst admits. "I went through it with all my kids and started on the grandkids."
"I was shocked to get the award," she said of the honor. "I never thought about that. I just enjoy working with kids and their projects. I believe there is a project for every kid and most of them succeed."
She, her husband, Don, and their daughters have helped those kids succeed and that's a major part of what county fairs are all about.
