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This summer’s Triple Play Concert Series will feature twice as many bands in the New Lenox Commons.
This year’s line-up will include The Smithereens and Soul Asylum on June 19, Fastball and Survivor on Aug. 14 and Blue Oyster Cult and Kansas on Sept. 4.
One ticket, good for all three shows, is $50 for New Lenox residents and will go on sale March 15 at the village hall, 1 Veterans Parkway. Tickets for the general public are $60 and will be available May 1.
More information is at www.newlenox.net.
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Buffalo Grove Village Manager William Brimm announced his resignation Monday night, shortly after the village board retired to closed session Monday night.
His resignation is effective July 2, and his last day in village offices is June 11, he said.
“On January 16, 1978, I was given a wonderful opportunity to join the staff of the village of Buffalo Grove as Director of Finance and General Services,” he said in his resignation letter. “Over the past 32-plus years, I have dedicated myself to the goals, objectives and hopes of the elected officials, residents and those who call Buffalo Grove home for their business.”
Brimm said he put a great deal of thought into making the decision over the past few months.
He recently celebrated his 61st birthday and, “while not considered old anymore, does make me realize that matters of age and responsibility do warrant thought and consideration,” he said.
Brimm, who was making more than $168,000 per year, had refused to accept a pay raise for two straight years. He said he needed to lead by example when village employees were called upon to make sacrifices.
Brimm’s resignation ended more than 32 years of service to the village, the majority of them as finance director.
Brimm was named village manager in 2006 after his predecessor retired.
Brimm, who turned 61 on Sunday, grew up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. He graduated from Sullivan High School and received his MBA from Northern Illinois University.
After working for Montgomery Ward in the firm’s retail management program, he joined American National Bank and Trust, working on the accounting end of loan portfolios in the comptroller’s division.
A friend told him about the opening in Buffalo Grove and introduced him to Village Manager William Balling, then in his first year on the job.
Brimm was a natural choice to succeed Balling in 2006. Brimm already had been serving as assistant village manager when Balling stepped down. Balling entrusted Brimm with such projects as the remodeling of the Arboretum Golf Course.
One of Brimm’s main accomplishments in the finance arena was building up reserve funds. As a result of that, as well as other measures such as moving to self-insurance for government officials, Buffalo Grove was prepared to face the recent economic storm.
Even so, the village was forced to make up for the decline in the revenues it shares with the state – income and sales taxes – by imposing a utility tax. Today, the budget basically is balanced, and the village even can afford badly needed stormwater management improvements near the White Pine Ditch. By the end of the last budget cycle, the village was a stutter-step away from an AAA bond rating.
Brimm’s job has become appreciably harder in the last year.
After a long period of government by quiet consensus, the board was rocked by a new era of controversy following the election of Lisa Stone to the board of trustees last April.
Stone openly called Brimm’s performance into question – particularly in the wake of controversy over how approval of an off-track betting parlor was handled. That led to a review of whether the village had violated the Open Meetings Act and if the village had adequately complied with a Freedom of Information Act request for related e-mails when additional e-mails later were located.
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office recently said it found no reason for action against the village in the matter, though it cautioned Buffalo Grove to be careful how it handled such matters in the future.
Some village board members complained that Stone harassed Brimm with phone calls at all hours of the day, including weekends. As a result, guidelines were set for village board members to contact village staff.
In recognizing Brimm for 25 years of work in 2003, Village President Elliott Hartstein said “Our financial well-being – undoubtedly would not be what it is today without the efforts that have been tireless and continuous and unselfishly given day in and day out for the last 25 years by our own assistant village manager and finance director, Bill Brimm.”
Hartstein noted that Brimm had overseen a local economy with a tax base that grew from $22.9 million in assessed value to $1.2 billion, while the population swelled from 16,000 to 43,000. The tax rate and the water rate had remained stable for more than two decades, and Brimm had received the Award of Financial Reporting Achievement from the Government Finance Officers Association more than 20 times.
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Barbara Walters has been around the world, interviewed prime ministers, presidents and just about anyone who has been in the spotlight the last half-century.
She came to Peoria because: “I had never been here before,” Walters told the Journal Star. “When I got the opportunity I decided to come, and I’m so glad I did. It’s very delightful.”
Walters was the keynote speaker Monday night at the Creve Coeur Club’s 112th annual George Washington Banquet at the Embassy Suites.
Each year, the banquet features a nationally or internationally renowned figure. The keynote speaker last year was Mikhail Gorbachev.
Hundreds of the Tri-County Area’s more prominent residents, employees and dignitaries filed into the banquet hall Monday decked out in their finery to hear Walters speak at the $175- to $200-a-plate dinner event.
This George Washington Banquet was the 10th for Linda Martin, 61, of Morton.
“They have such wonderful speakers, each one of them is unique and interesting,” Martin said.
Walters was no exception. As the first woman ever to co-anchor network news, 25-year co-host of ABC’s “20/20,” star of “Barbara Walters Specials” and annual 10 most fascinating people broadcasts, and current co-owner, executive producer and co-host of “The View,” Walters has probably interviewed more political figures and entertainment stars than any other broadcast journalist in history.
That includes every U.S. president and first lady since President Richard M. Nixon, as well as celebrities such as Bing Crosby, Sir Laurence Olivier, Monica Lewinsky, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher and Saddam Hussein.
Walters considers former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat her most important interview, in part because he changed history and had such a charismatic personality.
Walters also recalled two of her other favorite subjects, Katherine Hepburn and Christopher Reeve.
“I have never had a mentor, but if I had, it would be Katherine Hepburn,” Walters said, sharing her appreciation for the late actress’ strength and ability to be content in who she was.
Walters admired Reeve for facing challenges after becoming paralyzed and finding purpose and meaning in the remainder of his life.
“Christopher Reeve was one of the most extraordinary men I’ve ever met,” she said. “If I had to pick someone other than Anwar Sadat (as most important interview), it might very well be Christopher Reeve.”
With her busy schedule, Walters doesn’t often do speeches, but she was looking forward to her visit here and was glad to find out the winter storm didn’t cancel her trip, she said.
Walters, 78, promised the crowd she will mention her visit Wednesday morning on her next appearance on “The View.”
Ruth Longoria Kingsland can be reached at 686-3196 or rlongoria@pjstar.com.
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For 34 games, the Havana girls basketball team hadn’t played like it was starting four sophomores and a junior.
But Monday night, in the Class 1A Jacksonville Supersectional, the Ducks ran into a veteran Jacksonville Routt squad, and their youth was exposed in a 54-47 overtime loss.
“That had to be it,’’ Havana coach Jerry Wilson said about the Rockets’ experience taking over. “Because we made a couple of really bad decisions to open the overtime.”
In fact, the Havana possession chart in the extra period at Illinois College looked like this: two missed shots, turnover, two missed shots, turnover, miss, turnover, layup.
Meanwhile, Routt was taking advantage of Havana’s foul trouble. Routt senior forward Morgan Eilering took it right at Havana’s Macy Brown, who was nursing four fouls, and scored easily on a turnaround jumper. Later, Brown could only watch as Routt senior Katie Lindsey powered in a pair of layups.
Lindsey scored five in the overtime, 10 in the fourth quarter and a game-high 23 overall to lead her team to the state semifinals. Routt (27-6) plays Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City at 12:15 p.m. Friday at Redbird Arena in Normal. The winner plays Saturday for the state title, and the loser plays for third place.
“Coming into the fourth, I hadn’t really contributed and I knew I had to step up,” Lindsey said. “Early in the fourth, we got a couple of nice passes to get the offense going, and everything flowed from there.”
Lindsey also was trying to make up for a ghastly mistake at the end of regulation. With her team leading 45-43 and 14.5 seconds left, Lindsey inbounded the ball under the far basket. But her pass went directly to Havana freshman Kelsey Snowden.
“I was so furious with myself when I did that,” Lindsey said. “I knew I had to make up for it.”
Snowden dribbled into the frontcourt, dished to Brown and headed for the right baseline. Brown drove the lane and found Snowden wide open for a 10-footer that forced overtime.
“I was really pleased with some of the things that Snowden did,” Wilson said. “But overall, I think our youth showed tonight.”
Turnovers and free throws plagued Havana. The Ducks turned over the ball 30 times and finished 8-for-20 from the free-throw line.
“Fundamentally, we just didn’t play very well, and that’s what disappoints me the most,” Wilson said. “We turned the ball over, we didn’t box out, we didn’t trail people into the lane, all things we did at the start of the year but have really struggled with recently.”
The loss to Routt marks the second successive supersectional loss for Havana (30-5) — both in overtime. Havana dropped a 69-62 double-OT decision to Brimfield in 2009.
“I don’t really have an answer,” said Wilson, who also said assistant coach Scott Meyers had a good point.
“He said the last game we played really hard and really well was against Knoxville, and that was in January,’’ Wilson said. “We kind of saw it coming and tried everything we could to stop it, but we couldn’t do it.”
Ben Diggle can be reached at 686-3214 or bdiggle@pjstar.com.
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The Palatine Public Library District joined libraries across the state on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to participate in “Snapshot: One Day in the Life of Illinois Libraries” to show how important academic, public, school and special libraries and library systems are to residents throughout the state of Illinois.
On Feb. 10, Palatine Library staff collected patron comments, photographs, and statistics to chronicle a typical day in the library. These numbers will be added to those of other libraries across Illinois to show how libraries provide invaluable services to Illinois citizens.
Palatine Public Library District Director Susan Strunk said, “Libraries are more important than ever to our communities, and library use is at record levels. We want all the citizens of Illinois, and particularly our Illinois lawmakers, to see what a typical day is like for an Illinois library. Lawmakers have reduced state funding that is vital to help libraries maintain current programs, collections and services. We hope this ’snapshot’ makes the point to lawmakers that their constituents, our patrons, rely on us for critical services.”
Please visit www.palatinelibrary.org to view comments and pictures from “Snapshot: One Day in the Life of Illinois Libraries” at the Palatine Library.
“Snapshot: One Day in the Life of Illinois Libraries” is a project of the Illinois Library Association. For more information, contact your local library or visit: www.ila.org.
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A Cook County judge sentenced a 19-year-old Streamwood man to prison for six years Monday in exchange for his guilty plea to a July 2009 armed robbery he committed on the block where he lived.
Marcus Mallett, of the 1500 block of McKool Ave., and two other men approached the three victims, one of whom recognized Mallett as his neighbor, said Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Andre.
Mallett reportedly “chambered a round” and pointed the gun at the victims, taking from them wallets, money and cell phones, Andre said.
Police located Mallett, who was on probation for retail theft at the time, the following day, Andre said.
Mallett, who has been incarcerated in Cook County Jail since his arrest, received more than 200 days of credit for time served, Andre said.
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GLENWOOD (STMW) — Two south suburban men have been charged with allegedly operating a “mobile meth lab” out of their home and minivan.
Kevin Halter, 51, was arrested while driving the minivan from his Glenwood home Friday night. His roommate, George Wagner 56, was arrested later that night at their home, where more drugs and lab equipment were seized, according to a Cook County Sheriff’s office press release.
Bond was set at $75,000 for Halter on Sunday, while bond for Wagner was set at $50,000, the release said. Both men remained at the Cook County Jail on Monday.
County officers and federal agents spent the weekend going through their rental home before turning it over to the owners — who were notified it must be decontaminated before it can be rented out again.
Methamphetamine is made with a mixture of household chemicals and over-the-counter drugs, the release said. It is considered to be highly addictive and can be extremely volatile when mixed.
Halter was pulled over about a block from his home and in the back of his Nissan quest, with police finding 11.7 grams of methamphetamine, worth about $1,100, along with an ammonia tank, tubes, piping and glass, as well as several drugs and chemicals used to manufacture the drug.
Halter had spent three years in prison for methamphetamine charges out of Lawrence County, Ill. and had just been released from parole on Jan. 30, the release said.
He told investigators he works as a truck driver and sells his drugs to those parked at truck stops, but he also sells it to people from his home.
Investigators raided his Glenwood home and arrested Wagner, while also finding three more grams of methamphetamine, valued at $300. Additionally, police recovered more tanks, including restructured fire extinguishers and tubing to mix the chemicals.
Halter is charged with six felonies — unlawful possession of anhydrous ammonia, unlawful participation in methamphetamine manufacturing, unlawful possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver, unlawful possession of methamphetamine, unlawful possession of anhydrous ammonia in an unauthorized container and unlawful use of property under the methamphetamine manufacturing act, the release said. Police also charged him with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia for a digital scale found in the minivan.
Wagner is charged with four felonies — unlawful possession of methamphetamines, possession of methamphetamine manufacturing materials, unlawful use of property under the methamphetamine manufacturing act, as well as unlawfully participating in methamphetamine manufacturing.
Both men will appear for a preliminary hearing on March 16 at the Markham courthouse.
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On the day he reported to the spring training, Manny Ramirez predicted this would be his last season with the Dodgers.
“I know I’m not going to be here next year,” Ramirez said Monday in Phoenix.
So you don’t think you will re-sign with Dodgers?
“I doubt it, I don’t know,” he said. “I’m happy to be here. I’m going to try to enjoy myself.”
Asked what made him think he wouldn’t be in Los Angeles in 2011,
Ramirez replied, “I don’t know. I just know that I’m not going to be
here.”
Did he see himself moving to the American League?
“I don’t know,” Ramirez said. “We’ll see. Let’s take it a day at a time.”
Ramirez said he wasn’t even certain if he wanted to play next season.
“I don’t know about tomorrow, but I know about today, so … ” he
said. “When the season is over, I want to see where I’m at. If I play,
I play. If they let me play, I play.”
Ramirez said the game was still fun to play.
“All the time,” he said.
Of his struggles last season, Ramirez said: “For me, it was great.
I was telling myself, ‘Thank you, God.’ At least I was playing. That’s
how I look at things. We didn’t make the World Series, but at least we
were there.
“I think I did a great job. It was good what I did, coming back”
from a 50-game drug suspension. “What happened last year, that’s in the
past. This year’s a new year, so we’ll see.”
Ramirez refused to talk in detail about problems at the plate last
season, but he acknowledged that they made him change his off-season
training regimen.
“My whole career, I never hit,” he said. “But after this year, I
felt I needed to figure out a couple of (things). That’s what I did.”
Did he figure out the cause of his problems?
“We’re going to see in September,” he said. “If I’m still here.”
Sphere: Related ContentELGIN, Ill. (STMW) — The first sign police had that someone had robbed a northwest suburban bank branch Friday was when an officer driving past noticed a pile of smoking currency in the street.
The lone man who had robbed the Chase Bank at 24 E. Chicago St. in Elgin at 2:08 p.m. apparently threw down the money when a dye pack hidden inside exploded in his hand.
Police later arrested Michael Broome, 35, who the officer said is believed to be homeless.
Deputy Police Chief Jeff Swoboda said Friday that the suspect was arrested about an hour after the robbery in the area of State and National streets.
The robber entered the bank, presented a note and told employees he had a gun, FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates said.
He demanded money and fled with an undisclosed amount.
The man had not been charged as of 9 a.m. Monday, Yates said.
He was arrested after an Elgin police officer saw noticed he matched the description of the robber.
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Four people were hurt Sunday night when a car and a pickup collided in Peotone.
The crash was reported at about 9:30 p.m. at 268 S. Center Road, Will County Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Gardner said.
Four people were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, Gardner said.
Peotone Fire Protection District could not be reached for comment.
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Lockport Township High School District 205 is considering working with a not-for-profit educational group to develop long-term goals and ways to monitor progress toward reaching those goals.
The district last year had the Consortium for Educational Change evaluate the district through a series of interviews with school officials, board members, teachers, students and parents.
The school board now has the option of working with the consortium to develop goals based on the evaluation at a cost of $19,200.
The consortium is based in Lombard and is composed of a network of Illinois school districts.
If approved, the consortium would work again with school leaders, teachers, students and parents to determine what needs should be met and how the district can get to where it wants to be, according to Perry Soldwedel, the consortium’s core service director for strategic visioning.
In the consortium’s initial findings, which were released in December, the district’s overcrowding was reported as the top concern and cited as a contributor to low morale, anxiety and greater stress among teachers, students and parents, especially at the East campus.
The district’s schools are about 300 students above capacity and are on a staggered shift schedule to reduce hallway and classroom congestion.
In addition to addressing the spatial issue, the district also needs to do a better job helping Hispanic students, special education students and economically disadvantaged students meet educational standards, the consortium found.
In the consortium’s next step, a planning team of 25 to 45 people would form and study ways for the district to improve.
The team would share this information with the rest of the school community, which could offer feedback that would be used in forming the goals, Soldwedel said.
Having two-way communication is useful when forming a long-term plan, Soldwedel said.
“Your greatest asset is the people,” he said. “You have a lot of talented people.”
A new set of long-term goals would be brought to the school board for approval by May or June, Soldwedel said.
Once the board approves the new set of goals, the consortium would then help the district create ways to reach the goals and then a grading system to measure how they are or are not working, he said.
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Lockport Township High School District 205 is considering working with a not-for-profit educational group to develop long-term goals and ways to monitor progress toward reaching those goals.
The district last year had the Consortium for Educational Change evaluate the district through a series of interviews with school officials, board members, teachers, students and parents.
The school board now has the option of working with the consortium to develop goals based on the evaluation at a cost of $19,200.
The consortium is based in Lombard and is composed of a network of Illinois school districts.
If approved, the consortium would work again with school leaders, teachers, students and parents to determine what needs should be met and how the district can get to where it wants to be, according to Perry Soldwedel, the consortium’s core service director for strategic visioning.
In the consortium’s initial findings, which were released in December, the district’s overcrowding was reported as the top concern and cited as a contributor to low morale, anxiety and greater stress among teachers, students and parents, especially at the East campus.
The district’s schools are about 300 students above capacity and are on a staggered shift schedule to reduce hallway and classroom congestion.
In addition to addressing the spatial issue, the district also needs to do a better job helping Hispanic students, special education students and economically disadvantaged students meet educational standards, the consortium found.
In the consortium’s next step, a planning team of 25 to 45 people would form and study ways for the district to improve.
The team would share this information with the rest of the school community, which could offer feedback that would be used in forming the goals, Soldwedel said.
Having two-way communication is useful when forming a long-term plan, Soldwedel said.
“Your greatest asset is the people,” he said. “You have a lot of talented people.”
A new set of long-term goals would be brought to the school board for approval by May or June, Soldwedel said.
Once the board approves the new set of goals, the consortium would then help the district create ways to reach the goals and then a grading system to measure how they are or are not working, he said.
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Authorities are investigating the cause of death of a man who was found lying facedown in the street near his home early Sunday.
Kelvin Mosley, 44, of 1617 S. Stanley St. was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m., about 45 minutes after four teens walking by found him lying in the road in the 1600 block of Stanley.
There were no visible signs of trauma, and the cause of death is unknown, said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Mosley, a cook who was described as full of life and close with family and friends, recently became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Jessie Copeland.
“He did not deserve to die like this, he was almost home,” Copeland said Sunday night from the house they shared. “He will be missed dearly by me, his friends and family.”
She told police she gave him a ride to LA Connection, a Western Avenue bar, late Saturday evening.
Mosley left the bar at some point with a friend, who dropped him off at another friend’s house. He apparently decided to walk home from there, Copeland said.
His cell phone showed he called her phone about 10 minutes prior to the 911 call. She regrets she never heard the phone ring, as he probably was calling her for a ride home.
“If I had, he would be watching basketball,” she said.
Copeland said a police officer knocked on her door about 2:30 a.m. and asked her if she had seen or heard anything about a man in the street, dead.
She said she didn’t and then looked out the window. As a police flashlight illuminated the body, she felt a jolt. She was fairly sure it was her fiance.
“I gave them a photo of Kelvin and asked them to tell me it was not him,” she said.
But to her dismay, it was a match.
Copeland, a certified nursing assistant at Bel-Wood Nursing Home, said Mosley didn’t appear to have gunshot or stab wounds when she ran out in the street to see him. However, his wallet and shoes were missing.
Mosley’s sister, Stacy Mosley, said she and her family saw some bruises on his face at the coroners’ office Sunday.
Police confirmed Sunday evening that Mosley’s shoes were missing when officers arrived at the scene, but released no further information, including whether anyone had been taken into custody or arrested. “He was a good father figure, a good male figure,” Stacy Mosley said of her brother, adding he had eight children, five girls and three boys.
He served in the military in Seattle for four years in the 1980s and had been working at a Bartonville restaurant as a cook for about 10 years at the time of his death, she added.
Pearlie Mosley described her son as full of life and outgoing. “Everybody loved him,” she said.
“Everybody has taken it real hard,” Stacy Mosley added.
Riya V. Anandwala can be reached at 686-3194 or ranandwala@pjstar.com.
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Authorities are investigating the cause of death of a man who was found lying facedown in the street near his home early Sunday.
Kelvin Mosley, 44, of 1617 S. Stanley St. was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m., about 45 minutes after four teens walking by found him lying in the road in the 1600 block of Stanley.
There were no visible signs of trauma, and the cause of death is unknown, said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Mosley, a cook who was described as full of life and close with family and friends, recently became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Jessie Copeland.
“He did not deserve to die like this, he was almost home,” Copeland said Sunday night from the house they shared. “He will be missed dearly by me, his friends and family.”
She told police she gave him a ride to LA Connection, a Western Avenue bar, late Saturday evening.
Mosley left the bar at some point with a friend, who dropped him off at another friend’s house. He apparently decided to walk home from there, Copeland said.
His cell phone showed he called her phone about 10 minutes prior to the 911 call. She regrets she never heard the phone ring, as he probably was calling her for a ride home.
“If I had, he would be watching basketball,” she said.
Copeland said a police officer knocked on her door about 2:30 a.m. and asked her if she had seen or heard anything about a man in the street, dead.
She said she didn’t and then looked out the window. As a police flashlight illuminated the body, she felt a jolt. She was fairly sure it was her fiance.
“I gave them a photo of Kelvin and asked them to tell me it was not him,” she said.
But to her dismay, it was a match.
Copeland, a certified nursing assistant at Bel-Wood Nursing Home, said Mosley didn’t appear to have gunshot or stab wounds when she ran out in the street to see him. However, his wallet and shoes were missing.
Mosley’s sister, Stacy Mosley, said she and her family saw some bruises on his face at the coroners’ office Sunday.
Police confirmed Sunday evening that Mosley’s shoes were missing when officers arrived at the scene, but released no further information, including whether anyone had been taken into custody or arrested. “He was a good father figure, a good male figure,” Stacy Mosley said of her brother, adding he had eight children, five girls and three boys.
He served in the military in Seattle for four years in the 1980s and had been working at a Bartonville restaurant as a cook for about 10 years at the time of his death, she added.
Pearlie Mosley described her son as full of life and outgoing. “Everybody loved him,” she said.
“Everybody has taken it real hard,” Stacy Mosley added.
Riya V. Anandwala can be reached at 686-3194 or ranandwala@pjstar.com.
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Authorities are investigating the cause of death of a man who was found lying facedown in the street near his home early Sunday.
Kelvin Mosley, 44, of 1617 S. Stanley St. was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m., about 45 minutes after four teens walking by found him lying in the road in the 1600 block of Stanley.
There were no visible signs of trauma, and the cause of death is unknown, said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Mosley, a cook who was described as full of life and close with family and friends, recently became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Jessie Copeland.
“He did not deserve to die like this, he was almost home,” Copeland said Sunday night from the house they shared. “He will be missed dearly by me, his friends and family.”
She told police she gave him a ride to LA Connection, a Western Avenue bar, late Saturday evening.
Mosley left the bar at some point with a friend, who dropped him off at another friend’s house. He apparently decided to walk home from there, Copeland said.
His cell phone showed he called her phone about 10 minutes prior to the 911 call. She regrets she never heard the phone ring, as he probably was calling her for a ride home.
“If I had, he would be watching basketball,” she said.
Copeland said a police officer knocked on her door about 2:30 a.m. and asked her if she had seen or heard anything about a man in the street, dead.
She said she didn’t and then looked out the window. As a police flashlight illuminated the body, she felt a jolt. She was fairly sure it was her fiance.
“I gave them a photo of Kelvin and asked them to tell me it was not him,” she said.
But to her dismay, it was a match.
Copeland, a certified nursing assistant at Bel-Wood Nursing Home, said Mosley didn’t appear to have gunshot or stab wounds when she ran out in the street to see him. However, his wallet and shoes were missing.
Mosley’s sister, Stacy Mosley, said she and her family saw some bruises on his face at the coroners’ office Sunday.
Police confirmed Sunday evening that Mosley’s shoes were missing when officers arrived at the scene, but released no further information, including whether anyone had been taken into custody or arrested. “He was a good father figure, a good male figure,” Stacy Mosley said of her brother, adding he had eight children, five girls and three boys.
He served in the military in Seattle for four years in the 1980s and had been working at a Bartonville restaurant as a cook for about 10 years at the time of his death, she added.
Pearlie Mosley described her son as full of life and outgoing. “Everybody loved him,” she said.
“Everybody has taken it real hard,” Stacy Mosley added.
Riya V. Anandwala can be reached at 686-3194 or ranandwala@pjstar.com.
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Authorities are investigating the cause of death of a man who was found lying facedown in the street near his home early Sunday.
Kelvin Mosley, 44, of 1617 S. Stanley St. was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m., about 45 minutes after four teens walking by found him lying in the road in the 1600 block of Stanley.
There were no visible signs of trauma, and the cause of death is unknown, said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Mosley, a cook who was described as full of life and close with family and friends, recently became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Jessie Copeland.
“He did not deserve to die like this, he was almost home,” Copeland said Sunday night from the house they shared. “He will be missed dearly by me, his friends and family.”
She told police she gave him a ride to LA Connection, a Western Avenue bar, late Saturday evening.
Mosley left the bar at some point with a friend, who dropped him off at another friend’s house. He apparently decided to walk home from there, Copeland said.
His cell phone showed he called her phone about 10 minutes prior to the 911 call. She regrets she never heard the phone ring, as he probably was calling her for a ride home.
“If I had, he would be watching basketball,” she said.
Copeland said a police officer knocked on her door about 2:30 a.m. and asked her if she had seen or heard anything about a man in the street, dead.
She said she didn’t and then looked out the window. As a police flashlight illuminated the body, she felt a jolt. She was fairly sure it was her fiance.
“I gave them a photo of Kelvin and asked them to tell me it was not him,” she said.
But to her dismay, it was a match.
Copeland, a certified nursing assistant at Bel-Wood Nursing Home, said Mosley didn’t appear to have gunshot or stab wounds when she ran out in the street to see him. However, his wallet and shoes were missing.
Mosley’s sister, Stacy Mosley, said she and her family saw some bruises on his face at the coroners’ office Sunday.
Police confirmed Sunday evening that Mosley’s shoes were missing when officers arrived at the scene, but released no further information, including whether anyone had been taken into custody or arrested. “He was a good father figure, a good male figure,” Stacy Mosley said of her brother, adding he had eight children, five girls and three boys.
He served in the military in Seattle for four years in the 1980s and had been working at a Bartonville restaurant as a cook for about 10 years at the time of his death, she added.
Pearlie Mosley described her son as full of life and outgoing. “Everybody loved him,” she said.
“Everybody has taken it real hard,” Stacy Mosley added.
Riya V. Anandwala can be reached at 686-3194 or ranandwala@pjstar.com.
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