Noble News

SPRINGFIELD a ' In December the Illinois Liquor Control Commission conducted compliance checks around the state and visited 79 businesses licensed to sell liquor.

A Richland County woman has been charged in Indiana with attempted murder. 64 year-old Janice Jackson of Noble is charged in connection with an incident December 3rd at the Vincennes, Indiana Super Wal-mart in which she allegedly slashed the neck of 34 year old Monica Britton with a sharp object.

Monica Britton, 34, told police she was approached by a former acquaintance, Janice C. Jackson, 64, of Noble, Ill., while returning to her car on the store's parking lot Thursday afternoon.

OCT. 19 David Wroblewski , whose novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, shot up the best seller list when Oprah chose it for her book club last year, will discuss and sign copies of the book, 6 p.m. Oct.

Previews begin Wednesday, July 22, for Marriott Theatre's production of the sumptuous Alan Guettel-Craig Lucas musical "The Light in the Piazza," about a young American girl whose budding romance with a handsome Italian boy worries the girl's protective mother.

Crafters Wanted: Bolingbrook Jubilee seeks crafters for the craft show to be held Aug.