All Stories from August 8, 2012 (Change date)
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U.S. worker productivity up 1.6 pct. in 2nd quarterAug 08, 2012 10:03 am - WASHINGTON — U.S. workers increased their productivity in the April-June quarter after companies scaled back hiring and got more out of their existing work forces. The g...
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Beverage companies pay millions to conserve waterAug 08, 2012 10:00 am - WEST COLUMBIA, Texas — Fifty miles outside the nation's fourth-largest city is a massive field of waist-high grass, buzzing bees and palm-size butterflies, just waiting ...
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See what Fox Performing Arts Center could be at fundraiserAug 08, 2012 10:00 am - As we've reported, Rick Browne, a local architect, is working to convert the old Ziegler's Ace Hardware in West Dundee into the Fox Performing Arts Center, a venue he sa...
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Aurora Election Commission survives threat to disbandAug 08, 2012 10:00 am - The Aurora Election Commission should survive the November election with no challenges to its existence, despite discussion this spring of a possible petition drive to d...
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Prep football squads hit the practice turfAug 08, 2012 10:00 am - High school football is back, and the first kickoff of the season is only 16 days away. Football programs across the suburbs and throughout the state conducted their fir...
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Voters could weigh in on Island Lake village hall proposal in November electionAug 08, 2012 9:57 am - Island Lake residents may be able to say whether they think a new village hall and police station should be built in town when they vote in the November election. A grou...
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Police: Woman stole baby to back pregnancy claimAug 08, 2012 9:42 am - LOS ANGELES — A man who believed he was the father of a newborn girl was shocked to learn his estranged wife had faked the pregnancy and snatched an infant from a hospit...
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Egypt airstrikes target militants in SinaiAug 08, 2012 9:42 am - EL-ARISH, Egypt — Helicopters carried out missile strikes against Islamic militants in Egypt’s first airstrikes in the Sinai Peninsula since 1973, as the military said W...
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Pakistan court: PM must appear in corruption caseAug 08, 2012 9:42 am - ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the country’s prime minister to appear before the panel to explain why he has not followed instructions from it...
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Man charged with murder in wife’s hospital deathAug 08, 2012 9:42 am - AKRON, Ohio — A man charged with shooting his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit in what may have been a mercy killing was charged Wednesday with aggrava...