Frank Johnson

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• Scenic, struggling S. Illinois braces for oil rush

  4,400 residents.So, fracking is a gamble that many are willing to take."It could be a real good thing," says 23-year-old Frank Johnson , who lives in the Pope County seat of Golconda, a shrinking Ohio River town of 670. He drives an hour each way to his job   Read more »

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• Publicity stunt went on to change nation

  Wallace to take a stand for the cameras and his political base then step aside. Could be. One of his law school classmates was Frank Johnson. President Eisenhower named him U.S. Attorney for Alabama, then a federal judge. It was Johnson who ruled in favor   from Asbury Park Press Read more »

• Nottingham Post published Fame and fortune mattered little to Influential artist who was...

  Johnson was born into the generation that fought the Second World War – the young people of the 1960s could have been his sons and daughters. And yet the artist and teacher, fully immersed in the painting styles of the day, was an interesting and unique chronicler   from This Is Nottingham Read more »

• Violent Weekend Sees 3 Shooting Deaths in Baton Rouge

  in less than 48 hours. The first shooting took place early Saturday morning around 1:30AM at 6536 Nottingham St. Police say Frank Johnson, 33, 1102 Chemin Dr, Baker, shot and killed James Williams, 43, 4625 Lorraine following a fight. Several men were shooting   from Baton Rouge Today  Read more »

• State’s policies, fiscal condition concern manufacturers

  have a large number of manufacturers at least considering an out-of-state relocation or expansion of their operations, said Frank Johnson, president of MAC. “Companies are not happy with the economic conditions here in Connecticut and they’re not happy with   from Westfair Online  Read more »

• a Republican judge ruled in favor of Rosa Parks

  this day in 1956, judge Frank Johnson, along with another judge, ruled in favor of Rosa Parks and struck down the Democrats' "blacks in the back of the bus" law in Montgomery, Alabama. Johnson had been a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention   from Grand Old Partisan Read more »