All Stories from January 11, 2013 (Change date)
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Objection filed against Arlington Heights term limits petitionJan 11, 2013 9:51 am - An objection has been filed to the petition calling for Arlington Heights to place a binding referendum on the April ballot that could impose term limits for elected vil...
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Gadget Watch: Long-battery watch talks to iPhoneJan 11, 2013 9:50 am - LAS VEGAS — “Smart” watches that talk to cellphones have been around for some time, but they’ve been hampered by their high battery drain — usually needing recharging ev...
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U.S. trade gap hit $48.7 billion in NovemberJan 11, 2013 9:50 am - WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit expanded in November to its widest point in seven months, driven by a surge in imports that outpaced only modest growth in exports. T...
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Best Buy shares jump on holiday resultsJan 11, 2013 9:50 am - NEW YORK — Shares of Best Buy Co. jumped on Friday after the electronics chain showed signs of starting to reverse declining sales during the critical holiday selling se...
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Stocks gain for second straight weekJan 11, 2013 9:50 am - NEW YORK — Stocks gained for a second straight week as company earnings reports started to come in, keeping the Standard and Poor’s 500 index within a fraction of its hi...
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Russia-U.S. adoption ban Q&AJan 11, 2013 9:39 am - MOSCOW — The Kremlin has decided to ban Americans from adopting Russian children, but a statement that its adoption deal with the U.S. will remain valid until 2014 has l...
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W. Virginia Sen. Rockefeller won’t run in 2014Jan 11, 2013 9:39 am - CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who came to West Virginia as a young man from one of the world’s richest families to work on antipoverty programs and rema...
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Editorial: Doing the right thing, no matter the costJan 11, 2013 9:11 am - When was the last time you did something that you knew would hurt your bottom line but did so anyway because it was the right thing to do? People do charitable things al...
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Indiana boy abducted by grandparents in ‘94 found in MinnesotaJan 11, 2013 9:09 am - INDIANAPOLIS — Authorities have identified a 24-year-old man recently discovered living in Minnesota under an assumed name nearly two decades after his grandparents abdu...
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Cops watching Geneva school after Pledge flapJan 11, 2013 8:52 am - A Kane County Sheriff’s deputy was stationed for the second day Friday at Mill Creek Elementary School near Geneva, in reaction to a parent’s protest of how children wer...