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Blackwater ran deep and dark for years on current fearOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - "Gentlemen, welcome to Baghdad." That was the announcement that came over the jetliner's loudspeaker as we landed in Iraq. The captain rightly used the word "gentlemen" ...
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Check out what's up with League of Women VotersOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - As part of the current restructuring and fall membership drive, the Elgin Area League of Women Voters will hold a "What's Up Soup and Sandwich Supper" at 6 p.m. Tuesday ...
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Herald editor singled out for honor by high schoolOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The leader of the Daily Herald's Elgin office has been honored by his old high school. Jim Baumann, who graduated from Prospect High School in Mt. Prospect in 1980, was ...
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Wilson bridge work still on timeOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Problems on each side of the Wilson Street bridge demolition have cropped up, but so far they haven't pushed back the project's timeline. Plans to take out the sidewalk ...
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Parents want to give elementary classroom a makeoverOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - A toy that costs $10 in a "regular" classroom could cost up to $300 for the children in Penny Mayer's class. That's because the 11 third-, fourth- and fifth-graders in t...
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Harsh reality, but beauty, tooOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is an out of the way place many Americans may never have heard of, much less visited. But a group of nine Elgin Academy junior...
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'Cool' career fair returns to St. CharlesOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Thirteen-year-old Ashley Shanel has more than a few ideas for what she might like to do when she grows up. Last week, the list included medicine, art, occupational ther...
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Their love wasn't so rockin', apparentlyOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The romance, so to speak, is dead. After winning VH1's reality series "Rock of Love with Bret Michaels," Naperville native Jes Rickleff said Sunday that she is not datin...
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Teen dies in Sunday crashOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - A 16-year-old Carpentersville boy died of head injuries early Sunday morning in Elgin after a woman sideswiped the vehicle he was riding in, Kane County Coroner Chuck We...
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Recovering baby tiger dies at Brookfield ZooOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - The young male tiger cub mauled by its father late last month at Brookfield Zoo has died. Chicago Zoological Society officials, who oversee management of the zoo, are bl...