Kief News

Sam Allen Verbitsky, 89, of Minot, went to be with his Eternal Father, Friday evening, July 3, 2009, in Trinity Hospital in Minot.

A New Salem man opens his ranch to fight cancer. Bill Kiefer hosted the first annual Women's Rodeo and Equine Endurance Race raising money for breast cancer.

Randy Kief is owner of Kief's Reef on the Fox River in McHenry. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has decided to close the locks on the Stratton-Bolger Dam on Mondays and Tuesdays for financial reasons, causing some businesses along the river, including Kief's, to worry about their own income this summer.

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers have long been used to treat deep sea divers with compression sickness.

Ronald Hoffer, 65, Minot, died Friday, April 3, 2009, in a Minot nursing care center.

Three suspects were arrested Thursday in connection with a theft at a Voltaire elevator of more than 3,000 bushels of grain.

LaVern Michalenko, 77, Minot, died Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009, in a Minot hospital. LaVern R. Michalenko was born Sept.