Vernon Hills
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Suburban drug company devotes energy finding a cureSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - In rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the blood-sucking tsetse fly can carry a rather ghastly parasite. If an infected fly bites you, the trypanosome parasite will mul...
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Suburbs boast the best in high school journalismSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - When a high school football team hits the state championships, cheerleaders do back flips, coaches get slaps on the back and photographers jostle for pictures of the qua...
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Palatine couple killed in Barrington Hills car crashSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - A Palatine couple was killed in a car crash in Barrington Hills late Saturday night. Guillermo Aguirre, 48, and his wife Rafaela, 44, of the 1700 block of North Emerald ...
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Cubs rally Monday downtownSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Cubs fans who didn't make it to Wrigley Field over the weekend to celebrate the team's trip to the playoffs are getting a second chance. The Cubs will host a rally at no...
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Getting kids off the couch is play day's goalSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - On a typical Saturday morning, 10-year-old Mia Sowers of Elgin says she usually sleeps in until 9 or 10 a.m. and then either watches television or talks to her friends o...
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Lunch bags with lead get pulledSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - A Buffalo Grove company has agreed to stop selling lunch bags that contain lead, according to the Illinois attorney general's office. InGear Corp. also will give refund...
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Movers and shakersSep 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Robert A. Dodge of Fox River Grove joined Baxter & Woodman Inc., Crystal Lake, as structural and bridge department manager, to oversee all engineering aspects of bridge ...
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Soapbox: All parents paying attention?Sep 28, 2007 11:00 pm - What's a fair and just sentence for a couple convicted of allowing underage drinking in their home -- drinking that preceded a car crash killing two minors who attended ...
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Round Lake district plots steady courseSep 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Round Lake-area school officials expect the district's financial recovery from the bleak days of just a few years ago to continue through the next few years. With nearly...
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Carmel 35, St. Patrick 14Sep 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Learning on the fly can be a difficult endeavor for any high school football team. But Carmel's young squad has picked up valuable lessons along with five consecutive vi...