All Stories from August 20, 2013 (Change date)
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Study: Illinois interstates 5th busiest in nationAug 20, 2013 6:41 am - SPRINGFIELD — A new federal report says Illinois highways are the fifth-busiest in the nation. The data from the Federal Highway Administration was released Monday and l...
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Waukegan company giving Denver airport 10 car charging stationsAug 20, 2013 6:35 am - DENVER — Denver International Airport plans to add 10 charging stations for electric vehicles in its parking garages. Visitors who park their plug-in electric vehicles i...
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Air pollution warning issued for Chicago areaAug 20, 2013 6:32 am - The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is warning Chicago-area residents about high levels of air pollution. The EPA says air quality on Tuesday is expected to be...
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Lincoln Tomb plans historic eventsAug 20, 2013 6:31 am - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site will have presentations next month on Abraham Lincoln’s least-known son and about black heroes of the Civil War....
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Judge warns of telephone scam involving jury dutyAug 20, 2013 6:31 am - EAST ST. LOUIS — The chief federal judge in southern Illinois is warning citizens not to fall for a telephone scam involving jury duty and possible identity theft. U.S. ...
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Illinois Marine veteran returns to KoreaAug 20, 2013 6:30 am - MONTICELLO — As a Marine serving in Korea in 1952, Sam McPheeters almost didn’t make it home. The lifelong Monticello resident will always remember getting the call for ...
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5 shot near Chicago churchAug 20, 2013 6:29 am - Chicago Police say five people were wounded during a shooting outside a church on the city’s North Side. Authorities initially said one person died in Monday’s violence....
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5 state prisons locked down in a week for violenceAug 20, 2013 6:29 am - SPRINGFIELD — Five Illinois prisons have been locked down in the past week because of a spike in violence. The Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers reports t...
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'Coming Clean' is a window into hoardingAug 20, 2013 6:00 am - What's it like to live with hoarder parents? In Kimberly Rae Miller's memoir, “Coming Clean,” the writer doesn't minimize the destruction the disorder causes families. B...
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Plan now for great-tasting tomatoes next yearAug 20, 2013 6:00 am - I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Home-grown tomatoes are NOT the best-tasting ones. Not necessarily, that is. Now, I’m not advocating tossing in your trowel an...