All Stories from October 5, 2012 (Change date)
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Fox Valley area students named semifinalists for National Achievement ScholarshipsOct 05, 2012 4:23 pm - Submitted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation More than 1,600 Black American high school seniors who have been designated Semifinalists in the 49th annual National...
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Voter registration ends Oct. 9 in KaneOct 05, 2012 4:22 pm - Kane County Clerk John A. Cunningham reminds Kane County residents that the last day to register to vote for the Nov. 6 General Election will be Tuesday, Oct. 9. The Cou...
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California refinery back online amid soaring pricesOct 05, 2012 4:21 pm - LOS ANGELES — Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs th...
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Palatine Twp. taking Mobile Dental Clinic applicationsOct 05, 2012 4:19 pm - The Palatine Township General Assistance Office is currently taking applications for its Mobile Dental Clinic. A dentist and dental assistant staff the 40-foot-long van ...
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‘It looked like he was packing,’ police say of missing engineer in carjacking caseOct 05, 2012 4:17 pm - The disappearance of a nuclear engineer wanted on vehicular hijacking charges in DuPage County is being treated as a missing-person case, police said Friday. Coal City P...
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Former medical board member, 3 others indicted on fraud chargesOct 05, 2012 4:15 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A former Illinois Medical District commissioner, his wife and two other people used at least $3.7 million in state health grants to pay for vacation homes,...
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Quinn fires union chief’s wife from state jobOct 05, 2012 4:14 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn has fired a workers’ compensation arbitrator who is married to the head of a union battling him over salaries, layoffs and pensions. Jacquel...
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Mexican drug cartel figure extradited to ChicagoOct 05, 2012 4:14 pm - A key member of the Mexican multibillion-dollar drug trafficking cartel that officials say dominates the illegal drug trade in Chicago is in a downtown federal correctio...
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Steroid linked to meningitis outbreak was sent to Chicago areaOct 05, 2012 4:12 pm - A medical practice specializing in pain management has notified about 200 Chicago-area patients who may have received injections of a steroid medication linked to an out...
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Madoff fraud’s last days recounted in NYC documentOct 05, 2012 4:11 pm - NEW YORK — In December 2008, two of Bernard Madoff’s most loyal employees met on a Manhattan street corner and fretted over a closely held secret that the rest of the wo...