WGFA NEWS for Monday, February 15, 2010 >
WX > 50% chance of light snow today, high near 25. NW wind at 5-15. Snow showers likely tonight and tomorrow.
> Several area fire departments battled a two-story house fire this morning along State Line Road in rural Beaverville. The vacant house was engulfed in flames when firemen arrived shortly after 3 am, according to fire department spokesman Jim LeVeque. Firefighters were on the scene for 3-plus hours. No injuries to report. The cause is under investigation.
Fire departments answering the box-alarm included: Beaverville, Papineau, Martinton, Aroma Park, St. Anne, Pembroke, Donovan, Concord and Morocco, IN.
> A fourth lawsuit has been filed against Kankakee School District 111 over alleged misuse of a taser gun. The Daily-Journal reports a lawsuit seeking $33 million in damages for three students allegedly shocked by a taser gun at Kankakee’s Junior High School was filed last week. It is the fourth lawsuit to be filed in a month against the district and the Kankakee Police Department. The lawsuits refer to incidents where a school resource officer allegedly shocked students who volunteered for demonstrations of the taser gun.
The school district and Kankakee Police have admitted an officer used his taser on students. The incidents are currently under investigation.
> Fifty-three puppies, some of which had broken bones and covered in fleas and mites, are in the custody of the South Suburban Humane Society in Chicago Heights today after they were confiscated in a puppy mill raid in rural St. Anne. CBS Channel 2 reports Cook County authorities and the Illinois State Police raided the puppy mill Friday in Kankakee County.
A humane investigator reported seeing puppies with open sores, paws spliced open, in cramped conditions and freezing temperatures. Investigators were told there was times when we were told that nobody was there for days at a time. Puppies were laying in bowls with feces. A Yorkshire terrier, with a crushed leg, will have that leg amputated. Volunteers are helping to care for the pups. Some could be available for adoption in about two weeks.
Police say a 59-year-old suspect allegedly responsible for the puppy mill was not on the property Friday. She will be arrested and will face felony cruelty charges next week. Another woman, a relative renting the property, has already been charged.
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