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Fermilab layoffs expected soonMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Fermilab will need to lay off fewer people than officials originally predicted. But the cut of 140 workers at the Batavia laboratory -- about 7.5 percent of the lab's wo...
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No injuries in Elgin house fireMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - A house on Elgin's near west side was rendered uninhabitable by a fire Tuesday afternoon. Elgin Fire Marshal Richard Dunne said there were no injuries to residents or fi...
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Suspect arrested in slayings of Aurora, St. Charles menMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A former Aurora man who has been wanted since 2003 in the stabbing deaths of two men was arrested Monday in Texas, authorities said. Jesus Godinez, 32, and his brother e...
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Man files suit against Elgin officerMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A South Elgin man who claims he was punched by an Elgin police officer while he sat handcuffed in a patrol car has sued the now-suspended officer and the city, according...
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Kaneland students to pick school namesMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Kaneland students will help pick the names of the school district's two middle schools. "We are going to make it an academic exercise as well as an electoral exercise," ...
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The value of America can be measured in barrels of oilMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Most of us view the world through dollar glasses. It's perfectly reasonable. Dollars, after all, are the currency we use in daily life. And the lens, until recently, was...
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Briefs: Nine mailboxes damagedMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - St. Charles police are investigating the vandalism of nine mailboxes last week on Meadow View Drive. Each of the mailboxes appeared to have been struck with a baseball b...
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Rotary contacts bypass politics in remote MyanmarMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - As the United States managed its first relief airlift to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar Monday, Rotarians were already on the scene, having avoided the political barbed wire th...
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Suburban couples raising multiple multiplesMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Beware silence. When raising multiple sets of multiples -- that's right, two sets of twins, or twins followed by triplets -- a moment of silence becomes downright scary....
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Two Elgin men accused in liquor store theftMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Two men were accused Sunday morning using a BB gun in robbing an Elgin liquor store, police said. Aubrey D. Kelly, 20, of 211 National St., Unit 2, Elgin, and Mario Robi...