All Stories from August 12, 2013 (Change date)
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Holocaust survivors remembers parents with TorahAug 12, 2013 6:40 am - An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor is honoring her parents and those of her late husband by giving a $40,000 handwritten Torah she commissioned to a Skokie synagogue. Th...
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U.S. gas prices drop 8 cents over past 2 weeksAug 12, 2013 6:39 am - The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has fallen about 8 cents over the past two weeks. The Lundberg Survey of gas prices released Sunday says the price of a ga...
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Not vacation: Summer learning programs crucialAug 12, 2013 6:37 am - For many students and teachers, summer vacation was more like summer term. Reading lists. Science camps. Portfolio development. The to-do list for kids and teachers soun...
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‘Valor Games’ for disabled veterans to beginAug 12, 2013 6:34 am - Hundreds of veterans and service members are set to compete in the annual Valor Games Midwest. The event for the disabled begins Monday and ends Wednesday. The events i...
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Chicago announces first 12 automated speed localesAug 12, 2013 6:34 am - The Chicago Department of Transportation is announcing the first 12 automated speed enforcement sites as part of the city’s “Children’s Safety Zones.” Cameras will monit...
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Girl, 4, wounded in Chicago shootingAug 12, 2013 6:30 am - A 4-year-old girl was one of three people who were wounded during a shooting on Chicago’s northwest side. Chicago Police say the girl was in a car with two other people...
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More human remains found in Mackinaw RiverAug 12, 2013 6:30 am - KAPPA — More body parts were found in a central Illinois river and authorities believe they belong to a 74-year-old man whose remains were found in two counties. The tw...
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Reality TV meets real world, ‘Mountain Man’ styleAug 12, 2013 6:22 am - TRIPLETT, N.C. — The way Eustace Conway sees it, there’s the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there’s th...
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Boomers battle age, work-related hearing lossAug 12, 2013 6:07 am - When baby boomers were coming along — blasting not only most traditions set by generations before them, but their music too — they probably didn’t think they might some ...
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Billie Jean King talks life ahead of PBS profileAug 12, 2013 6:03 am - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Billie Jean King said last week that she couldn’t have revealed herself as being gay in the 1970s because it would have damaged the fledgling wom...