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www.thesouthern.com The Southern Illinoisan Sunday, December 2, 2007 Local nation an online guestbook at www.thesouthern.comobituaries Men alleging to have had intimate encounters with U.S. Sen. Larry Craig come forward victim of "profiling" when he was arrested June 11 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer in an adjoining stall in a men's restroom. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in August.

He is appealing his conviction, financed by his 2008 re-election fund. Because of the scandal, Craig no longer needs the money to run for office; after 33 years in state and national office, he says he will not seek re-' election next year. Craig also faces a Senate Ethics Committee inquiry, which was requested by Senate GOP leadership. "I know what people feel like when they're profiled, when innocent people get caught up in what I was caught in as an innocent person," Craig told NBC's Matt Lauer in a prime-time interview that aired Oct. 16.

The appearance on NBC was the latest denial by Craig that he has engaged in gay sex. The denials began June 30, 1982, when CBS broke news of a scandal alleging gay sex between congressmen and underage pages. he had sex with the Rev. Ted Haggard last year. The former Colorado Springs evangelist at first denied it but eventually confessed.

Jones says Craig paid him for sex in late 2004 or early 2005. Greg Ruth was a 24-year-old college Republican in 1981 when he says he was hit on by Craig at a Republican meeting in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Tom Russell, now 48, is a former Nampa, Idaho, resident who lives in Utah. Russell said his encounter with Craig occurred at Idaho's Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area in the early 1980s. A fifth gay man, who is from Boise but who declined to be named for fear of retaliation, offered a recent and telling account: He was in a men's restroom at Denver International Airport in September 2006 when the man in the next stall moved his hand slowly, palm up, under the divider.

Alarmed, the man said he waited outside the restroom and then identified the man in the adjoining stall as Craig, whom he had met in Idaho. Craig, 62, says he was a BY DAN POPKEY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS BOISE, Idaho David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell.

Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention. They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig's denials, including his famous statement, "I am not gay, I never have been gay." Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug.

28, are now memorialized on a just-released-for-Christmas Talking Senator Larry Craig Action Figure. David Phillips is a 42-year-old information technology consultant in Washington, D.C., who says Craig picked him up at a gay club in 1986 and that they subsequently had sex. Mike Jones is a former prostitute who told the world Sign Robert John Bandor HILLSBORO Robert John Bandor, 61, died Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007 at his residence. Bob was born Sept.

30, 1946, in Hillsboro, the son of Robert James and Jeannie Jachino Bandor. His parents Bandor preceded him in death. Bob was also preceded in death by a daughter, Lynn Marie Bandor, and an infant brother, Peter J. Bandor. Bob graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and was employed by the U.S.

Postal Service. Bob served his country in the Vietnam War and received the Bronze Star. Bob was also a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans. In his glory years of high school, Bob played baseball for the Griffin High School Cyclones. In 1963, Bob was selected to play on the Illinois State Register's All-City Team.

He also played on the 1964 baseball team that won the IHSA State Baseball Tournament. It is believed to be the first year that a parochial school had ever won a state championship in any sport. His love of the sport Obituaries Helen G. Hargrave HARRISBURG Helen G. Hargrave, 94, died at 4:35 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, in Carrier Mills Nursing Home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007, in J.M.

Weirauch Funeral Home in Harrisburg, with Charles "Red" Metcalf officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Lawn Cemetery in Harrisburg. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home.

Helen was a homemaker. She was born Oct. 2, 1913, in Harrisburg to William Lorrison and Ora Stricklin. She married Claude Hargrave, who passed away in March of 1989. She is survived by a son, Rick Hargrave and wife, Peggy, of Harrisburg; daughters, Dawn Cathcart and husband, Fred, of Paducah, and Dolores Webb of Pontiac, a sister, Edith Evans of Harrisburg; six grandchildren; and 11 greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three brothers; and four sisters. Rosemary Crisp MARION Rosemary Berkel Crisp, 70, died at 2:54 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, in Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion. Arrangements are incomplete at Mitchell-Hughes Funeral Home in Marion.

Melissa Lepinske CRAINVILLE Melissa Jane (Purdue) Lepinske, of Dallas, formerly of Crainville, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, in Medical City Hospital in Dallas. Arrangements are incomplete at Riggin-Pillatsch Funeral Home in Carterville. never waned as he spent the next 40 years devoting a great deal of time coaching and passing on his love of the game. He coached baseball for Fairview Youth Athletic Association, Ursuline Academy and St.

Patrick's Grade School. He also enjoyed volunteering his time to various groups including the Boys and Girls Club. Bob is survived by his children: Sandra and husband, Tim, Schenk of Oraville, Rebecca Rue of New Albany, and Christopher Bandor of Springfield; four grandchildren, Nicole and Sydney Schenk, Jake Burns and Ashton Bandor; his fiancee, Jane Roseberry of Hillsboro; an uncle, Bill Bandor and wife, Betty, of Hillsboro, and several cousins. Services will be on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007, at 11 a.m.

at Kirlin-Egan and Butler Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery in Springfield. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 3, 2007, at Kirlin-Egan and Butler Funeral Home, 900 S.

6th Springfield. Memorials may be made to the Boys and Girls Club of Springfield, 300 S. 15th Springfield, IL, 62703, or to the charity of the donor's choice. For more information or to give condolences, visit www.butlerfuneral homes.com. NEWS, smailprice.

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