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B8 WEATHER friday, September 26, 2008 decatur, Illinois www.herald-review.com Check out 1 Delightful with Mostly sunny and warm top stories Periods of clouds and sunshine Partly sunny and beautiful Sunny much ir" of the time anfj pleasantly warm Mainly clear 'WJr Periods of sun 4w in Central Illinois in the multimedia section of www.herald-review.com High: 66 Low: 45 Low: 48 High: 76 High: 80 Low: 56 High.84 Regional Forecast Central Illinois High pressure will continue to provide Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's lows and today's highs. Pekin 8351 nice weather for today and the week end, with sunshine each day. Area Almanac Decatur Temperature High Low Record high 91 Record low 33" Precipitation 24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest.

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Record precipitation ...2.18" Southern Illinois With a good deal of sunshine, warm weather for this time of the year is expected through the weekend. Danville 8250 85 55 (1897) (1989) o.oo- 9.29" 2.53" 44.73" (1926) Prec. World Cities Today Tomorrow City Hi LoW HiLoW Acapulco 87 73 87 75 1 Amsterdam 63 46 pc 63 48 Athens 75 60 pc 69 60 Baghdad 102 75 93 59 Barbados 86 78 1 87 78 Beijing 66 46 pc 68 45 pc Beirut 84 75 pc 78 73 pc Bermuda 83 77 1 81 77 1 Berlin 63 51 67 52 pc Buenos Aires 70 57 73 61 Cairo 93 75 90 63 Dakar 91 82 87 76 Geneva 65 44 pc 65 44 Hong Kong 91 81 88 79 Jerusalem 84 63 60 pc London 68 46 68 48 pc Madrid 74 50 pc 63 46 Manila 84 75 1 84 77 Mexico City 72 54 68 521 Moscow 52 36 pc 46 37 New Delhi 91 73 91 73 Ottawa 72 51 pc 68 54 pc Panama 88 76 1 86 75 1 Pans 65 44 63 45 Rome 67 50 pc 70 50 pc Seoul 63 50 66 48 Sydney 77 57 82 61 Tokyo 86 6B 75 63 pc Warsaw 59 45 61 46 pc Central Illinois Extended Illinois Parts of the state will have a thunder-shower on Monday, then dry weather will resume Tuesday and Wednesday. 'V Bloomingtony" 8351 Lewisfown j' 8350 84X I eiifnuii Lincoln -v 8349 I 83f yV y' Champaign Petersburg 1 jU- 8350 i I I .1 J249, 8448 Jacksonville -v I -a Sullivan i rJ Taylomlle If "YmJ j. Wratt9on jjE Char leston S352 813QI1: 8252 ts City Hi Lo Flora 82 52 Hillsboro 83 56 Mattoon 81 56 Olney 84 55 Salem 81 53 Shelbyville 82 56 Sullivan 82 58 Vandalia 83 55 Pollen Index Chicago Mostly sunny and very warm today.

Mainly clear tonight. Partly sunny and pleasantly warm tomorrow. Marshall 8351 a Weattier (W) s-surmy: pc -partly douOy: c-ctoudy: sfi-stiowers: t-triunderstomis. r-rain: sf-snow flurries: sn-snow: Hce Degree Days Grass Heating Degree Days: An index of energy consumption indicating how many degrees the average temperature was below 65 degrees for the day with negative values counting as zero. St.

Louis Warm today with plenty of sunshine-A starlit sky tonight. Mostly sunny and pleasantly warm tomorrow. Molds Trees Weeds -J A I Low I ModT) High I Robinson Effingham 8251 8450 Yesterday Season to date V. High 8452 3. 0 25 1 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc.

2008 Source: National Aliergy Bureau. Illinois National Forecast Today RealFeelTemp 100 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast highlow temperatures are given for selected cities. Seattle- 67(49 80 40 20 v) A lK sfSS Chicago jXtefrW, a.m.

10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. The patented ReaiFeet Temperature is AccuWeatner's exclusive index ol the effects ot temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine, precipitation and eevatton on the human body. Lake Information 3i as ot 7.00 a.m.

Francisco v7254 Denver 8649 -6762 National Cities -srst Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow City Hi LoW HiLoW City Hi LoW HiLoW City HiLoW HiLoW AlBany 64 54 62 56 Charlotte 66 57 73 58 McAllen 92 66 90 68 Albuquerque 83 57 81 57 Cheyenne 81 46 pc 77 47 pc Memphis 84 59 83 60 Amanita 87 56 88 56 Chicago 80 51 79 55 pc Miami 87 73 pc 88 75 1 Anchorage 52 40 pc 52 40 Cincinnati 78 53 pc 79 54 pc Milwaukee 75 55 75 55 pc Atlanta 75 56 pc 79 62 PC Cleveland 72 56 69 56 pc Minneapolis 82 62 pc 75 53 pc Austin 90 57 89 56 Columbus. OH 74 55 74 57 pc Montgomery 85 58 83 60 Baltimore 66 61 74 60 sh Dallas 89 62 90 62s Nashville 80 57 7957pc Billings 74 47 pc 77 49 pc Denver 86 49 81 52 PC New Orleans 84 64 85 65 Birmingham 8156 80 59 pc Detroit 80 53 76 55 PC NewYorkCity 64 60 68 64 Bismarck 78 45 pc 74 49 pc El Paso 85 61 86 60 Norfolk 72 66 1 77 66 Boise 82 52 82 50 Fairbanks 43 31 39 27 Oklahoma City 85 59 88 60 Boston 58 55 66 58 Fargo 78 51 I 70 51 pc Omaha 85 61 83 58 pc Buffalo 69 54 66 55 Flagstaff 76 38 pc 75 42 pc Orlando 86 65 pc 88 68 Casper 76 42 81 42 Greensboro 66 55 72 60 Philadelphia 66 62 73 62 Charleston. SC 75 61 pc 83 65 pc Hartford 64 56 63 58 Phoenix 102 78 101 77 pc Charleston. WV 70 58 sh 76 59 sh Honolulu 87 74 88 73 Pittsburgh 66 58 68 56 sh Houston 88 60 87 61 Portland. ME 59 54 63 56 OUn anCI MOOn Indianapolis 80 54 77 55 pc Portland.

OR 71 49 pc 73 50 Sunrise toriav fi-47 a Jacksonville 84 60 pc 87 62 St. Louis 83 57 85 64 ouiinae luuay o.h d.in. Kansas City 84 60 85 61 San Antonio 90 63 88 62 Sunset tonight p.m. Knoxville 74 55sh; 75 58pc San Diego 76 66 76 66pc Moonrise today 3'49 am Las Veaas 100 71 99 75 San.Francisco 72 54 pc 71 54 MoonsettOdaV 522Dm LrttleRock 8653s 8855s Seattle 67 49 6749pc rviuuitbei luudy p.m. ios Angeles 84 64 B2 62 pc Topeka 86 59 85 58 New First Full Last Louisville 82 59 pc 78 57pc Washington.

DC 67 62 76 61 sh f. rr vJ KU Sep 29 Oct 7 Oct 14 Oct 21 Kansas City -f ts s. Winter Summer Lake Clinton Los Angeles 690.0 8464 Atlanta. 7556 SiJ El Paso Showers "8860' 594.0 690.0 690.90 599.7 608.39 614.4 614.23 Normal Pool level (yesterday's level) Lake Shelbyville Normal Pool level (yesterday's level) Lake Decatur Normal pool level (yesterday's level) Miami 8773 T-storms Rain "I Flurries Snow Ice .612.5 FRONTS Cold Warm ft fli Stationary AccuWeather.com" -10s -OS 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s; 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s tir'iifTt nrfrtfuiuna CATHERINES PLUS SIZES HALLOWEEN BRETTWOOD VILLAGE HEADQUARTERS Costumes Masks Wigs Hours: M-F 10-8 Sat 10-7, Sun 12-5 877-0180 North Water Street and Pershing Road, Decatur, IL DAY BY DAY In 1986, William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin during World War I.

In 1955, following word that President Dwight Eisenhower had suf PL Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd member. In 1991, four men and four women began a stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, called Biosphere 2. fered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange saw its worst price decline since 1929. In 1957, the musical play "West Side Story" opened on Broadway. at age 54.

In 2007, a judge declared a mistrial in Phil Spector's murder trial because the jury was deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting the music producer of killing actress Lana Clarkson. Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks. Thought for today: "The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do." Booker T. Washington, American educator and author (1856-1915) Today's highlight in history: In 1789, Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state. On Sept.

26: In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution. In 1892, John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band performed publicly for the first time, at the Still-man Music Hall in Plainfield, N.J. In 1914, the Federal Trade Commission was established. In 1918, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began killing all 234 people aboard. In 1998, the nation's first march on cancer took place on the National Mall in Washington.

Grammy-winning jazz singer Betty Carter died in New York at age 69. In 2003, President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a two-day summit at Camp David. The government issued a recall for Segway scooters, citing instances in which riders fell off when the batteries ran low. A magnitude 8 quake rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, injuring more than 750 people.

British rock singer Robert Palmer died in Paris Eisenhower Rehnquist In 1960, the first debate between presidential candidates took place as John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon faced off in Chicago before a national TV audience. They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993. In 1997, an Indonesian Airbus A-300 crashed while approaching Medan Airport in north Sumatra, The History Corner Herald (Review Customer Service Phone Directory Area code is 217 unless otherwise noted A LOOK BACK Main Switchboard 429-5151 Outside Decatur: 1-800-437-2533 pern LINCOLN LOG September 26, 1844 In DeWitt County Circuit Court in Clinton, the court continues the case of Lincoln v.

Turner Turner. Lincoln is suing Spencer Turner and William Turner to collect a S200 promissory note. Later in the course of the lawsuit, the defendants will plead that they should not have to pay because they were minors when they signed the note. Lincoln will claim they were not minors. September 26, 1861 President receives a report from Illinois Gov.

Yates that to date, the war effort has cost the state $3,533,511.02. He also attends a divine service "on day of humiliation, prayer and fasting for all people of the nation." September 26, 1863 Newspaper Delivery Service Newsstand Sales 421-6990 6 a.m. 5 p.m. Monday-Friday Outside Decatur: 1-800-453-2472 7 a.m.-11 a.m. Saturday 7 a.m.-12 p.m.

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On the floor is Joey Saddler. In the front row, from left, are Richard Kas-sis, Roger Fare, Josie Thocker, Judy Hewett and Virginia Mc-Kibben. In the back row, Jean Ann Burkholter and Delores Grout. Mrs. Gastman, a Decatur teacher for many years, also read her favorite poem, 'Why The Christmas Bells Do Co-sponsored by The Illinois Press Association and the Herald Review.

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