Mount Carmel News

Two male graduates dominated the Mount Carmel High School Class of 2012. Billie Ryman Pensader Ocampo was named valedictorian while Lourence Jason C. Camacho was honored with the salutatorian award during commencement exercises held Saturday at the school grounds.

Mount Carmel Police Chief Jeff Besing said a witness saw the victim's 1999 Mercury four-door passenger car "driving at a faster-than-normal rate of speed" down the boat ramp on Fifth Street and into the water.

According to Illinois State Police District, the driver of a 1996 Mack dump truck, Howard D. Ritchie, age 63, of Bone Gap, was northbound on Route 1, just north of Wabash County Road N 820, when two tires separated from the axle on his vehicle.

Secretary Louanne Olson read the minutes from the previous meeting on April 11 and a motion was made by Marilyn Kanezo and seconded by Barb Malick to accept the motion, which then passed.

A priest in the Belleville Diocese at odds with his bishop over the wording of the Catholic Mass said Belleville Bishop Edward Braxton told him in a meeting Tuesday that if he refused to resign as pastor of St.