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$5 Million

The estimated cost of repairs and clean-up at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as a result of high winds that tore through the campus in May. Much of that total will go to fix broken windows and roof damage. At least $1 million will be spent on clean-up efforts. As many as 1,000 healthy trees were lost in the powerful storm, most of them within Thompson Woods and around Campus Lake. SIU’s Agriculture Department took some of the hardest hits. The main building will need at least $300,000 in repairs, and the university farm area lost several assets, including a feed mill used for the dairy, swine and equine centers. A new feed mill could cost between $200,000 and $300,000. AP

16%

Roadway fatalities are down 16 percent in Nebraska so far this year compared to the same time period in 2008. Nebraska Office of Highway Safety reports there were 63 deaths on Nebraska road in the first part of 2009, a decrease from this time in 2008, which had one of the lowest fatality rates on state record.

$12 Million

A settlement of $12 million has been reached between the owners of a Lawrence, Kan., apartment complex and the families of three people killed in a 2005 fire there, as well as with others who were injured in the blaze. Boardwalk Apartments and its management company, Terrace Management Services of Kansas City, Mo., had faced three wrongful death lawsuits and six other lawsuits by victims of the fire at the 76-unit complex. The combined lawsuits alleged that the complex and management company were negligent for failing to have adequate fire suppression system, fire alarm system and escape routes.The settlement was shared by the plaintiffs.

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