All Stories from December 11, 2013 (Change date)
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Pilot who crashed at SFO worried about landingDec 11, 2013 6:16 pm - WASHINGTON — The pilot of the jet that crash-landed at San Francisco’s airport last summer worried privately before takeoff about handling the Boeing 777, especially bec...
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Nigerian survivor almost missed rescue diverDec 11, 2013 5:58 pm - WARRI, Nigeria — He had survived three days in an upside down tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and then he saw lights in the water. Air bubbles rose around th...
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Interpreter for deaf at Mandela event called fakeDec 11, 2013 5:54 pm - JOHANNESBURG — As one world leader after another paid homage to Nelson Mandela at a memorial service, the man standing at arm’s length from them appeared to interpret th...
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Another man freed in Chicago police torture sagaDec 11, 2013 5:37 pm - PONTIAC — During his more than 30 years behind bars, Stanley Wrice insisted he was innocent, that Chicago police had beat him until he confessed to a rape he didn’t comm...
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Ill. lags in spending on smoking preventionDec 11, 2013 5:36 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is spending only about 7 percent of what federal officials say it should on smoking-prevention programs 15 years after a landmark settlement with ...
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Film has clues about U of I sculpture’s real colorDec 11, 2013 5:25 pm - URBANA — An 8-mm color film shot in the 1940s is offering some clues about the original color of a bronze statue that is a beloved landmark at the University of Illinois...
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Geminid meteor shower ramps up Friday nightDec 11, 2013 5:18 pm - Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s time for the December sky show. The annual Geminids (JEM’-i-nids) meteor shower — the most intense of the year — will peak F...
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Sanko decides it’s time for changeDec 11, 2013 5:08 pm - There were times at Benedictine University and before that at Wilde Field when Lisle football coach Dan Sanko stood incredulous and speechless. Other times he exploded i...
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Tri-Cities police reportsDec 11, 2013 4:33 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Car lands in creek after Huntley crashDec 11, 2013 4:32 pm - A vehicle with two occupants ended upside down in a creek after a crash at Kreutzer Road and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Huntley Wednesday afternoon, police sai...