All Stories from February 16, 2012 (Change date)
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St. Francis stays in SCC raceFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - The St. Francis basketball team displayed the heart of a champion Friday night. With their leading scorer, Ryan Coyle, sidelined after getting sick in the locker room at...
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Holocaust museum tries to keep major exhibitionFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — In the late 1980s, when organizers of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum were searching for Nazi-era artifacts, they sought to tell a story that was industr...
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Scouting sectional swimming / NorthwestFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - Scouting sectional swimming When: Diving 9 a.m. today, swimming 1 p.m. today At stake: The opportunity to compete in the state championships, Feb. 24-25 at Evanston. In ...
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Prosecutors, Madigan object to cameras at trialFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - State prosecutors and the Illinois attorney general’s office objected Friday to one of the first efforts to allow cameras in a state courtroom — the upcoming case of mul...
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Deal trims maximum jobless benefits to 73 weeksFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Long-term unemployed workers in states with persisting high joblessness soon would no longer be able to count on unemployment benefit checks for up to 99 we...
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Wis. Gov. Walker calls for passing mining billFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker urged the state’s business leaders on Thursday to help him pressure the Legislature to pass a bill streamlining the process for opening...
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Six arrested in Hoffman Estates drug bustFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - Police charged six people at a Hoffman Estates sports bar with possession of a controlled substance shortly before midnight Thursday. At the time, officers were executi...
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Poll Vault: What would you do if you won the lottery?Feb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - This edition of Poll Vault was made possible by my not winning Powerball over the weekend. The jackpot was over $336 million, so several of us at the Daily Herald combi...
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Record $6 trillion of fake U.S. bonds seized in Mafia probeFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - Italian anti-mafia prosecutors said they seized a record $6 trillion of allegedly fake U.S. Treasury bonds, an amount that's almost half of the U.S.'s public debt. The b...
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U.S. women’s Olympic basketball coach faces tough choicesFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - In most instances, Geno Auriemma is in an enviable position. His teams at Connecticut have set the standard in women’s college basketball. The Huskies have won seven nat...