All Stories from January 13, 2012 (Change date)
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Check Lincoln wrote day before assassination is foundJan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - BROOKLYN, Ohio — A personal check that Abraham Lincoln wrote the day before he was assassinated is among those that were rediscovered by an Ohio bank. The Plain Dealer i...
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Deichl gets it done as Libertyville rollsJan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - Jack Deichl got Libertyville’s basketball team jacked up early. But when coach Scott Bogumil gestured to his 6-foot-5 junior early in the fourth quarter of the Wildcats’...
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District 44 Community Businesses of the Year namedJan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - State Rep. Fred Crespo, a Democrat from Hoffman Estates, has announced that Dent Mob in Schaumburg and St. Alexius Medical Hospital in Hoffman Estates were selected as t...
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Wheaton North’s Swider shines at BataviaJan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - Mike Swider did not leave anything to chance on Saturday afternoon in Batavia. The Wheaton North 220-pound senior rumbled through the 16-team field to earn MVP honors in...
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No. 17 UConn beats Notre Dame 67-53Jan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame needed to hit more shots in the second half to keep pace with No. 17 Connecticut on Saturday to extend a 29-game home winning streak. The I...
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Bomb kills at least 53 pilgrims in south IraqJan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - ZUBAIR, Iraq — A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq today, killing at least 53 people in the latest s...
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Scouts honor: Rolling Meadows winsJan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - Even if you’re a devout follower of Mid-Suburban League basketball, you probably don’t know who Mike Weingart is. The 5-foot-7 senior doesn’t get a whole lot of playing ...
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Joe Paterno: 'I backed away'Jan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno sat in a wheelchair at the family kitchen table where he has eaten, prayed and argued for more than a half-century. All around him fami...
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Richmond too much for Burlington C.Jan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - Less than 4 minutes into Saturday afternoon’s game the Burlington Central girls basketball team found itself down by double figures. Central never recovered. Richmond-...
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Condo talk: Responding to secondhand smoke complaintsJan 13, 2012 11:00 pm - Secondhand smoke is nothing to sneeze at. Complaints are on the rise from residents of associations who say tobacco smoke enters common hallways and/or their units from ...