All Stories from May 11, 2012 (Change date)
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Caterpillar plans $37M visitor's centerMay 11, 2012 9:00 am - PEORIA - The $37 million Caterpillar Visitors Center is on schedule to open the same day as its next-door neighbor, the $100 million Peoria Riverfront Museum. Save the ...
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Biden proves catalyst for Obama on gay marriageMay 11, 2012 8:59 am - WASHINGTON — Sorry, Mr. President. After nearly single-handedly pushing gay marriage to the forefront of the presidential campaign and inadvertently pressuring Pres...
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Gay rights backers see history in Obama’s standMay 11, 2012 8:59 am - NEW YORK — At a birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons of New York City’s Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the m...
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Judge rejects effort to open CIA volume on Bay of PigsMay 11, 2012 8:53 am - WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA’s three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded...
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Grayslake Central nets FVC titleMay 11, 2012 8:47 am - Alex Wilson and Skyler Jessop scored, and Rachel Effa recorded 7 saves, as Grayslake Central’s girls soccer team captured its second straight Fox Valley Conference champ...
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Man who tried to open plane door faces Mass. judgeMay 11, 2012 8:43 am - BOSTON — A North Carolina man who authorities say became disoriented and tried to open a cabin door on a US Airways Express commuter jet from Maine to Philadelphia is sc...
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Syrian opposition chief: Peace plan in ‘crisis’May 11, 2012 8:43 am - DAMASCUS, Syria — A Syrian opposition leader said Friday the regime is trying to destroy a U.N.-brokered peace plan for the country. The accusations came as security for...
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Obese Ohio boy, 9, sheds weight, is returned homeMay 11, 2012 8:43 am - CLEVELAND — A 9-year-old Ohio boy who weighed more than 200 pounds and was removed from his mother’s custody over health concerns has been returned to her care after sli...
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Obama jokes with Clooney at star’s gala fundraiserMay 11, 2012 8:43 am - LOS ANGELES — George Clooney played the suave host, chef Wolfgang Puck whipped up something for dinner, and President Barack Obama and about 150 of his Hollywood se...
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Iran helps release of Turkish reporters in SyriaMay 11, 2012 8:43 am - ISTANBUL — One Turkish journalist detained in Syria is a devout Muslim who was on a Gaza-bound aid ship targeted in an Israeli raid in 2010, and reported being woun...