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All Stories from August 11, 2023 (Change date)

Kopech ineffective, White Sox fall 7-6 in 10 innings to Brewers

By Scot Gregor
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Off the field, it's been a miserable week for the White Sox. Former relief pitcher Keynan Middleton trashed the organization, saying there were no rules or accountabilit...
Harris to young activists: 'Your generation is critical' to ending gun violence

Chicago Sun-Times
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Vice President Kamala Harris told young activists and leaders gathered in Chicago on Friday they mean "everything" to the future of solving the violence epidemic - as th...
State mental health center renamed for Elizabeth Packard. Here's her story of exposing abuse.

By JERRY NOWICKI and MOLLY PARKER Capitol News Illinois
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, ...
Fast-moving Hawaii fires will take a heavy toll on the state's environment

By DOUG GLASS and JENNIFER MCDERMOTT Associated Press
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - The fast-moving wildfires that raked Maui this week took a heavy toll on humans and property, killing dozens of people and devastating the historic town of Lahaina. But ...
To truly get pensions on track, state must fix Tier 2 inequities

By Ralph Martire Guest columnist
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Hardly a week goes by without some media coverage of Illinois' unfunded pension liability. Heck, I wrote about it in my last column. And all this attention is well deser...
Pritzker vetos bill that would lift nuclear moratorium

BY JENNY WHIDDEN jwhidden@dailyherald.com
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday vetoed a bill that would have enabled the construction of new nuclear reactors in Illinois for the first time in more than three decades. T...
More evacuations considered in Norway where the level in swollen rivers continues to rise

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Authorities were on standby to evacuate more people in southeastern Norway Friday, where huge amounts of water, littered with broken trees, debris ...
GOP senator makes Dems look pro-military

By Debra J. Saunders Syndicated columnist
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - "Sen. Tuberville, thank you for standing for life and against wokeness in the military," read highway billboards in the GOP senator's home state of Alabama. Shame on the...

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