Former Fairfield Community High School math teacher and Coach Timothy C. Going has been transferred into the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Going is now serving his twenty year prison sentence at the low security Texarkana Federal Prison in Texarkana, Texas. Going is serving prison time for secretly videotaping female student athletes at Fairfield Community High School as well as at motels where student athletes were staying in advance of cross country meets. Last September, Going – now 44 – was sentenced after pleading guilty to three counts of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and one count of Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
31-year-old Curtis L. Thompson of Fairfield was arrested Wednesday evening after he allegedly resisted arrest following a disturbance at his home. Thompson is accused of charging at police and spitting on an officer. Thompson faces charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and aggravated battery of a police officer.
Elastec/American Marine has partnered with the railway industry to develop a rapid response trailer for derailments involving shipments of crude oil. The development follows the recent derailment of 21 tanker cars loaded with crude oil from the Bakken oilfields near Galena earlier this week. The trailers include personal protective equipment, generators, lights, ladders and Elastec’s containment and oil recovery equipment.
Carmi City Police Officer Joshua Moore is being credited with saving the life of a toddler in Carterville this week. Officer Moore was attending a training session at John A. Logan College when he was flagged down by a distraught woman. The woman told the officer that her child was turning blue after choking on a Pop Tart. Officer Moore (pictured left) pulled the child out of the car and performed the Heimlich maneuver. The blockage was removed and the child started breathing normally. An ambulance arrived shortly after Officer Moore got the child breathing again.
52-year-old Sammie Musgrave of Fairfield has been jailed on charges he was in possession of a form of methamphetamine known as “Ice” as well as several prescription pills. Musgrave was arrested after police went to his home to serve an unrelated warrant for failure to appear in court on a drug charge.
The Wayne County Memorial VFW Post 4535 is offering $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors from Wayne County high schools in Fairfield, Wayne City and Cisne. Students interested should submit a well written resume to the VFW Scholarship Committee at 201 E. Court Street in Fairfield no later than April 30.
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