DailyHerald.com > saintcharles Copyright 2013 Daily Herald, Paddock Publications, Inc. saintcharles en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:22 -0400 Turnquist retires as longest-serving male teacher in U-46 http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229679/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229679/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:57:22 -0400 With 41 years in the classroom, Jerry Turnquist will retire as the longest-serving male teacher in Elgin Area School District U-46 history. Turnquist spent his entire career at Ellis Middle School after growing up just a few blocks away. Colleagues gathered to recognize his career, as well as the work of three other retiring Ellis teachers — Phylis Dunlap-Huerta, Carlos Salgado and Steve... For Reinsdorf and Urlacher, time is relative http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/sports/705229764/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/sports/705229764/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:56:07 -0400 This week Jerry Reinsdorf indicated that he wants to keep going for a couple more decades while Brian Urlacher retired from pro football. Boy, is it ever better to be the owner than the owned. House vote on compromise gun bill to come Friday http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229719/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229719/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:52:13 -0400 Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says legislation allowing the carrying of concealed guns will get a vote Friday. In a compromise, the legislation would ban guns in parks and on public transportation. The new House plan also requires a $150 application fee. Fermilab opens new playground http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229714/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229714/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:40:38 -0400 A new feature at the Lederman Science Center at Fermilab has kids pretending they are protons, or assuming they are antiprotons, to teach about the laboratory's accelerator chain and its experiments, past and present. Woodstock man gets 50 years for murder http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229677/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130522/news/705229677/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:37:44 -0400 A 28-year-old Woodstock man was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday in the May 2011 shooting death of a former court security officer and Island Lake bar owner. Timothy Smith staged a robbery after gunning down Kurt Milliman, 48. Smith was pimping out his wife and Milliman had answered an online ad to have sex with her.