Warrensburg NewsLocal news for Warrensburg, IL continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Police arrest SWIC student who threatened to shoot others on campus- February 17, 2008 "The individual that he spoke to didn't want anything to do with the plot and immediately told the college's Public Safety Department" A Southwestern Illinois College student faces charges after police said he threatened to shoot students at the Belleville campus on Friday.Steven E. Ellis, 21, of 300 Warrensburg, near Belleville, was charged Saturday with one count of falsely making a terrorist threat.Ellis approached another student Friday and attempted to recruit him in a plan to shoot SWIC..http://www.topix.net/city/warrensburg-il/2008/02/police-arrest-swic-student-who-threatened... Ethanol storage tank west of Harristown explodes; lightning blamed- February 3, 2008 "Mount Zion brought some additional foam. "We're pretty confident it was a lightning strike. The tank was about two-thirds full, or holding about 22,000 gallons of ethanol." A 30,000-gallon ethanol storage tank west of Harristown exploded about 3 a.m. Friday, apparently because of a lightning strike that ignited vapors trapped in the vessel after a vent on the top had frozen shut, ... via Herald & Reviewhttp://www.topix.net/city/warrensburg-il/2008/02/ethanol-storage-tank-west-of-harristown-e... |