All Stories from February 5, 2013 (Change date)
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Key Walgreen revenue metric climbs 3.7 pct in Jan.Feb 05, 2013 8:00 am - Deerfield-based Walgreen Co. brought in more revenue from established stores than Wall Street expected last month, as the nation's largest drugstore chain saw an increas...
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Grisly scene after Calif. tour bus crash killed 7Feb 05, 2013 7:56 am - YUCAIPA, Calif. — Gerardo Barrientos and his girlfriend Lluvia Ramirez wanted a week away from the suffering they see every day at a government hospital in Tijuana, Mexi...
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Small Ala. town: Relief that child hostage is safeFeb 05, 2013 7:56 am - MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — A 5-year-old boy was back with his ecstatic family and playing with his toy dinosaur after his nearly weeklong ordeal as a hostage in an underground...
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad on historic visit to CairoFeb 05, 2013 7:56 am - CAIRO — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed the crisis in Syria with his Egyptian counterpart Tuesday in the first visit by an Iranian leader to Cairo in more than t...
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Memo gives basis for drone strikes vs U.S. citizensFeb 05, 2013 7:56 am - WASHINGTON — An unclassified Justice Department memo reveals that the Obama administration’s justification for drone strikes that kill al-Qaida linked U.S. citizens abro...
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Bulgaria links Hezbollah to bombing of IsraelisFeb 05, 2013 7:56 am - SOFIA, Bulgaria — Hezbollah bombed a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out b...
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U.S. sues S&P over pre-crisis mortgage ratingsFeb 05, 2013 7:47 am - WASHINGTON — The U.S. government says Standard & Poor’s knowingly inflated its ratings on risky mortgage investments that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis. The c...
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Editorial: A welcome experiment in fight against drugsFeb 05, 2013 7:28 am - Can a secret warehouse-sized office somewhere in the Chicago area help reduce the supply of drugs on suburban streets? Let’s hope so. The office is the three-story Chica...
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Ill. State Police Academy welcomes cadet classFeb 05, 2013 7:05 am - SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Police is welcoming its new cadet class. Fifty-five cadets arrived to the academy in Springfield on Sunday. They will undergo 25 weeks o...
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Illinois lawmakers back visas for Polish citizensFeb 05, 2013 7:03 am - Three members of Illinois’ congressional delegation have reintroduced legislation that would waive visas for visitors to the U.S. from countries like Poland. U.S. Sen. M...