Lt. Ronald H. Lache Passes at Age 66 with Lung Cancer

Air Force Honors A Man who has died in the service

Retired Airforce Lt. Col. Ronald H. Lache, 66, died Monday night in his home located in Springfield. He died from a long battle with with lung cancer. He was found by his son Ronald Lache Jr.


Born on Nov. 3, 1943, in Philidelphia to Harry and Thelma Curry Lache. Lache spent 20 years in the American Air force flying with a squadron known as the Skyfire Aces. The squadron was one of the many that went to fight in Vietnam. 


Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Okland Dr., Springfield, Ohio, where the ceremony will be conducted by Reverand Micheal Finney. 


Friends and Family may visit with family at Jefferson National Barracks starting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. 


Ronald H. Lache will be laid to rest next to his wife Delores Carney who passed earlier this year on March 7. 


Lache raised a family of four children with his wife Delores Carney. After there four children moved out of the house they moved from Dayton, Ohio to Springfield. In his later years Lt. Ronald enjoyed socializing at the Newman Center and the Rock Bridge Lions Club.


Survivors include his mother Thelma Lache of Springfield; his son Ronald Lache Jr. of Springfield; three daughters – Barbara Ann Peck of Dayton, Ohio, Patrice Louis Wylie of Indianapolis, Ind., Cynthia Lache of San Mateo, Calif.; and one granddaughter, Jennifer C. Peck, of Springfield.



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Gunman Robs a liquor Store

The Gunman Robs a liquor store

A gunman (a man) with a pillowcase over his head pointed a pistol at a clerk and fled  down an alley with $2,845 moments before police arrived at the Black Derby Liquor Store on 2311 Ripley Way. 

The gunman entered the liquor store at 7:12 p.m., police said. Bellinos triggered his silent alarm behind the desk at 7:16. p.m. Police officers Anne Fulgham and Jose Lopez answered the alarm and arrived on the scene at 7:19 as the gunman was leaving the store.

The gunman was described to be 6 feet tall and weighed 155 pounds. He was wearing a blue jeans and a dirty white T-shirt with a torn right sleeve. 

Officer Anne Fulgham shouted a warning, then fired a shot at the man, which missed, police said. The man escaped capture by running into an alleyway.


Police immediately arrived at the scene of the crime right when the gunman was just about to leave the store, police said.


Police chief Antonio Grasso said that a routine investigation of the incident would be made by the Police Internal Security Squad. 


John Paul Reinicke, who witnessed what happened, said he was walking down Ripley Way when the incident occurred. “The officer did a great job and the guy ran so fast he looked like a track star.” {Sidebar: Quote from the witness}

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Blazing Fire Wreaks Havoc

A blazing fire wreaks havoc and destroys property.

           

           The spell of hot, dry weather that has held the area in its grasp for the last few weeks is taking its toll on grasslands and firefighters.

            Saturday, in the wake of 15- and 25-mph winds and a high temperature of 99 degrees, fire protection agencies from across the area responded to 16 calls.

            At the largest of those, a 25-acre grass fire on Peabody Road, which is north of Prathersville and west of Route 19. Paramedics treated on site at least five of 35 firefighters for heat exhaustion, Fire Chief Debra Schuster said.

            Three more of the heavily clad firefighters were hospitalized for heat exhaustion and two of those were flown to Springfield Hospital by helicopter.  All were treated for about an hour and released.

            Dennis Sapp, fire captain of Station No.1, said that the blaze on Peabody Road burned out of control for an hour before it was contained, which seemingly was caused by a trash fire. The blaze endangered some nearby farmland and the barn but was extinguished before anything else was ruined.

            Fires had been starting all day, such as the one on Peabody Road, especially in the northern part of the city and county. Some of the fires could have been the work of an arsonist, but careless burning seemed to be a more of the cause.

            “We don’t have any evidence there is an arsonist. We sure hope that we don’t have someone running around starting fires on purpose, but there is also that possibility,” Schuster said.


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Line-backer's career maybe over

Serious injury occurred to linebacker

“Pete Stenhoff was a physically fit, 210-pound linebacker for Chula Vista High School when he planted his helmet in the chest of a ball carrier two years ago. He hasn’t walked since.

Medics that night rushed Stenhoff to the hospital, where he learned he had cracked vertebrae.

“Stenhoff is one of 20,000 youths who are injured playing high school football each year. Like Stenhoff, nearly 2,400 are permanently diabled. He is luckier than some. Thirteen youths died last year as a result of their injuries on the football field.”

“Football was always a dangerous sport. As far as physical contact goes, there is no sport that has more of it. But as dangerous as football has always been, it is more dangerous now than ever before and not so much because the game itself has changed, Michael Russell of Ezinearticles.com reports. “

NPR.org reports on a new study which suggests that the brutal hits in football players me be linked to a much higher risk of cognitive impairment. 

Despite his injuries, Stenhoff is not bitter. “I knew the risks involved when I decided to play football, but I wish I would have known just how bad it could be.”

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Shooting kills officer and wounds shooter

Police search for shooter on the loose

ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI  A shooting rampage killed a police officer and the gunman and injured three others near 22^nd and Frederick Streets in St. Joseph yesterday.

Officers were alarmed after the shooter struck and shot the other officer. 

Police officer Bradley Arn, who was responding to the scene, was killed when bullets hit his back window seven times, striking him in the back of the head and killing him.

Another officer was on the scene and shot the gunman. (Name of the cop unknown) 

Before his death, Officer Arn reported the shooting to other police and seven shots hit the police car and the deadly bullet hit the back of his head killing him. 

The gunman, William E. Lattin Jr. was seen on Frederick Street when the shot fired. He was wearing camouflage and backpack, had a Mohawk, had a knife attached to his belt and gun on him. {Police states}

This was the first mass shooting in St. Joseph history according to police. {Sidebar: The last officer shot in the line of duty was in 1944, and the last officer killed was in 1991.}  

Witnesses said that they could hear the shots down Frederick Street but couldn’t identify it clearly. 

George McFeat was driving on the road beside his girlfriend behind the police officer who was killed. “I heard the shot and saw the police officer slump to the left. He probably hit the accelerator because he hit a boat.  {Sidebar: Witness stated that when he pulled out of the store, he let the police officer pass and heard the shot and saw the police officer slump to the left.}

Another witness, Roger Liberty a nearby resident said, “I heard gun shots and hung up the phone. In the back ally, I saw an averaged sized man with a Mohawk in the yard who was shooting down the street with an assault rifle.” 

The Funeral will be held at 501 Faraon St., to Savannah, Mo., which was Arn's hometown.

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