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Jocketty gone

I heard this during the Cubs game last night, and it made me sad.

Walt Jocketty, baseball’s second-longest-tenured general manager, has parted ways with the Cardinals. Bill DeWitt Jr., the team’s principal owner, and club president Mark Lamping made the announcement at Busch Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. [...]

Jocketty was hired on Oct. 14, 1994, [...]

Darin LaHood to make formal announcement Friday

From a press release:

DARIN LAHOOD SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE TO FORMALLY ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY FOR PEORIA COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY

Peoria attorney and former federal prosecutor Darin LaHood will hold a news conference on Friday, October 5 to formally announce his campaign for Peoria County State’s Attorney in the November 2008 election.

LaHood will be joined by [...]

D150 swears in two deputies while Sherriff Hinton is out

District 150 has four superintendents. There’s Ken Hinton, of course, who got his certification after he was hired as superintendent. Then there are the two “associate superintendents” — Herschel Hannah and Cindy Fischer — who were hired to act as superintendents while Hinton was getting his certification; they were later retained permanently. [...]