All Stories from September 27, 2013 (Change date)
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Senate OKs budget bill, but fight not overSep 27, 2013 11:13 am - WASHINGTON — A potential federal shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Senate dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives Friday and approved legis...
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Hossa hoping to play in Hawks' openerSep 27, 2013 11:00 am - Marian Hossa knows he's not getting any younger. Hossa, who will be 35 in January, has missed the entire preseason with a back injury that first flared up during the Sta...
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$3.2 million settlement in Elgin electrocutionSep 27, 2013 11:00 am - The family of one of two men electrocuted while working on a bridge at the Fox River in Elgin five years ago has been awarded a $3.2 million settlement ComEd is paying t...
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Mt. Prospect team hosts Volley for the CureSep 27, 2013 10:43 am - To support National Breast Cancer Awareness month, the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls’ volleyball teams from St. Raymond School in Mount Prospect will host St. ...
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Maine Twp. man charged with promoting prostitutionSep 27, 2013 10:35 am - A 25-year-old Maine Township man has been charged with promoting prostitution, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said in a news release. Nabil Anas, of the 9100 block of Stev...
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Stricken United plane captain dies in BoiseSep 27, 2013 10:32 am - BOISE, Idaho — The stricken captain of a United Airlines flight that made an emergency landing died at a hospital, officials said. The man was still alive when he arrive...
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McCain: Partisanship in DC is worst he has seenSep 27, 2013 10:32 am - WASHINGTON — Staring at the specter of a partial government shutdown, Sen. John McCain says he’s never seen anything like the harsh partisanship pervading much of Washin...
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Senate seeks to reverse law on engineered cropsSep 27, 2013 10:32 am - WASHINGTON — The Senate is seeking to reverse a controversial law that allows farmers to harvest genetically modified crops even when the crops are caught up in legal ba...
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In heart of the Rim Fire, regeneration has begunSep 27, 2013 10:32 am - TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. — In the midst of a foreboding canyon scorched bare by the Sierra Nevada’s most destructive fire in centuries, tiny ferns unfurl along a spring, bl...
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Ex-EPA official pleads guilty to theftSep 27, 2013 10:32 am - WASHINGTON — A former high-ranking official with the Environmental Protection Agency is pleading guilty to stealing nearly $900,000 from the agency over 13 years by fail...