All Stories from April 12, 2013 (Change date)
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St. Charles has ‘had enough’ of decades-old home projectApr 12, 2013 9:55 am - In January, St. Charles officials gave Clifford McIlvaine — who has been working on a home improvement project since Gerald Ford was president — three more months to mak...
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Voters can’t try to eliminate DuPage forest board salariesApr 12, 2013 9:55 am - SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House today rejected a plan to give voters the option to eliminate the salaries for members of the DuPage County Forest Preserve District boar...
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Warrant: Texas suspect interested in cannibalismApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - HOUSTON — A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college told investigators that he had fantasized about cannibalism and necrophilia and ab...
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Tears flow as 13 Serbian shooting victims buriedApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia — Mourners wailed and church bells tolled Friday in this Serbian village as hundreds came to bury 13 people shot dead by a man some called a quiet,...
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Off-duty paramedic rescues man who sawed armsApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - LOS ANGELES — Fire Capt. Art Hurtado was making an off-duty visit to a home improvement store when he encountered a horrific sight — a man had deliberately cut his own a...
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To Hopis’ dismay, tribal masks sold off in ParisApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - PARIS — A Paris auction house went ahead Friday with a contested sale of dozens of Native American tribal masks after winning a court ruling, despite appeals for a delay...
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Water main break swamps Ohio neighborhoodApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - AKRON, Ohio — People were warned to boil water for health safety after a broken 36-inch main swamped an Akron, Ohio, neighborhood, submerging cars, flooding basements an...
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China reports new bird flu death, 2 new infectionsApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - BEIJING — Chinese health authorities have reported another bird flu death and two new cases of infection. The new cases reported Friday in Shanghai bring the total numb...
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Top baristas duke it out for national championshipApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - BOSTON — The caffeinated concoctions sound like something out of a mad scientist’s lab: coffee infused with bacon or caramelized tangerine; spiced orange reduction or li...
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BBC faces dilemma as anti-Thatcher song tops chartApr 12, 2013 9:42 am - LONDON — The BBC is in a bind after opponents of Margaret Thatcher pushed the song “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” to the top of the British charts in a posthumous protes...