All Stories from August 2, 2011 (Change date)
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Katango launches Web service to organize friendsAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — As the number of your Facebook friends and Twitter followers grows, a new crop of online services are trying to help organize your social-networking buddies i...
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Caterpillar wants to lower property taxesAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - PEORIA — Caterpillar Inc. is asking Illinois' property tax appeals board to reverse decisions by Peoria and Tazewell counties and lower the value of the Fortune 500 comp...
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Quinn signs law increasing gun violence penaltiesAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation increasing penalties for convicted felons who are found carrying guns. Under the law, signed Tuesday, felons convicted of unlawful ...
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Convicted terrorist begins 28-year sentenceAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A man convicted of plotting to blow up the federal building in Springfield began serving a 28-year prison sentence this week. The Pantagraph reports ( http...
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6 ways the debt deal could hurt college studentsAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — College is already expensive. Now the government's 11th-hour agreement to raise the debt ceiling is set to push costs higher. That's particularly true for th...
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Nation of Islam to host education conferenceAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - CHICAGO — Developing a new generation of readers and eliminating illiteracy will be some of the topics at an education conference this week hosted by the Nation of Islam...
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Earth's two moons? It's not lunacy, but new theoryAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now thin...
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Gates Foundation gave away $2.5B in 2010Aug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said in its annual report that it gave away about $2.5 billion in 2010, roughly $500 million less than it granted the year ...
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Global airline profits hit by sky-high fuel costsAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - GENEVA — Sky-high fuel prices have hit the profits of the world's airlines though Europe's carriers recovered after suffering last year from a volcanic ash cloud that br...
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Protesters say they may halt bridge workAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS — A group that is seeking more construction jobs for minority workers is threatening to shut down work on the new Mississippi River bridge at St. Louis on Mond...
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