All Stories from January 2, 2011 (Change date)
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Girls season has featured growing painsJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - Happy New Year! Here's hoping 2011 brings a few more jumpers dropping and victories on the local girls basketball scene. I say that after spending most of the past thre...
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Number of workdays fewer for teachersJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - Regarding Robert Kennedy's letter from Palatine (Fence Post Dec. 23), he left out an important fact in his comparison of teachers and other workers. Let's not forget th...
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Former Democratic Conn. congressman Ratchford diesJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - HARTFORD, Conn. — William Ratchford, a former Connecticut congressman who later served in the Clinton administration, has died. He was 76. Ratchford's wife, Barbara, an...
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Judge orders mental exam in Bloomingdale murder of 4-year-oldJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - DuPage County prosecutors will be allowed to have a mental health expert interview a woman charged in the November slashing death of her 4-year-old daughter, a judge rul...
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County: Mortar shell killed Johnsburg manJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - Cook County Sheriff's police say it was a commercially made mortar shell that killed a Johnsburg man on New Year's Day. The blast killed Robert Freund, 31, of the 4900 ...
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Higher auto sales seen in 2010Jan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - DETROIT — A surge in car and truck buying that began in October is expected to lift last year's U.S. auto sales above a dismal 2009. Customers gained confidence in the e...
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Palatine Twp. GOP to hear from Murphy on SaturdayJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - State Sen. Matt Murphy will headline the Palatine Township Republican Organization monthly meeting, starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8 at the PTRO office, 839 N. Quenti...
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Braun says Chicago 'snookered' in meter dealJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun says the deal that privatized parking meters is a financial disaster for the city, and she says she'll try to break it if e...
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Oil refineries sue EPA over ethanol expansionJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — A ruling by the Obama administration allowing the sale of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol is running into legal hurdles from trade groups opposing th...
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Shania Twain weds exec Thiebaud in Puerto RicoJan 02, 2011 10:00 pm - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Country singer Shania Twain and businessman Frederic Thiebaud tied the knot Saturday in a New Year's Day wedding in Puerto Rico. A message on Tw...