All Stories from August 14, 2014 (Change date)
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Dawn Patrol: Support for gay ex-church staffer; AWOL firms blastedAug 14, 2014 5:01 am - Fired music director finds support at Holy Family meeting Colin Collette, fired as the longtime music director of Holy Family Catholic Community in Inverness, found...
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'Giver' takes all: Ambitious sci-fi drama a dispassionate tale of dispassionAug 14, 2014 5:00 am - Phillip Noyce's science-fiction drama "The Giver" should grab us by our conscientious lapels and shake us with its glimpse of a bleak future in which humanity has been p...
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5 great coaching meltdownsAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - White Sox manager Robin Ventura has been ejected from a few games for arguing calls, but he took it to another level Wednesday in San Francisco. Ventura kicked dirt ...
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Police investigate sexual assault report at Elgin hospitalAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - Elgin police are investigating a report of a criminal sexual assault by a staff member against a patient at Presence St. Joseph Hospital. The male victim went to the pol...
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Geologists studying Mount Baldy find another holeAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - Geologists beginning an in-depth study of why a then-6-year-old Illinois boy became buried in a popular sand dune in northwest Indiana last year ha...
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Alibaba hidden billionaires unveiled as Alipay estimate raisedAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - Simon Xie, an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder and second-biggest shareholder of its finance affiliate that owns Alipay, may become a billionaire as the estimate fo...
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Orwell rep accuses Amazon of doublespeakAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - The literary executor of George Orwell's estate is accusing Amazon.com of committing an Orwellian crime: doublespeak. In a letter published this week in The N...
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Game of chicken with Russian aid convoyAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia - Raising the stakes in Ukraine's conflict, a Russian aid convoy of more than 200 trucks pushed up to the border on Thursday but then stopped...
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St. Charles North High School drill team hosts 15th annual dance clinicAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - The 15th annual North Star Drill Team Dance Clinic featured 105 aspiring little dancers Thursday at Bell-Graham Elementary School in St. Charles. Leading the way were 25...
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Hanover Township offering perks for blood driveAug 14, 2014 1:01 am - Hanover Township will treat donors to a chair massage, Subway gift card and free T-shirt at an upcoming blood drive. Heartland Blood Centers and the township are partner...