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Searchers find body, some wreckage from missing medical helicopter

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Searchers have found a body and wreckage from a medical helicopter missing since Monday, a spokesman for the rescue effort said. The body of John St...
Stuff a stocking with rhino poop

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - YULEE, Fla. -- Stumped about what to give that special someone this Christmas? How about some rhino poop. The International Rhino Foundation is auctioning on eBay four p...
Man dies after 13 years in coma; murder charges may be coming

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - DECATUR -- Central Illinois authorities are trying to decide if a man convicted in a 1994 battery of someone who has died after 13 years in a coma can now be charged wit...
Local toymaker has heart of gold

By Nancy Gier
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Jim Hildreth doesn't sport a white beard or wear a red suit, but he does have a workshop. It's a ventilated 12-foot by 18-foot piece of basement in his modest...
Suicide truck bomber attacks police station in northern Iraq oil hub

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck filled with sand struck a police station north of Baghdad on Saturday, the latest in a week of bombings tha...
The briefs

Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Christmas concert at Holy Trinity The vocal choirs, small orchestra and handbells at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Elgin will present a Christmas concert, "Come Ye Fai...
Is 'good' bacteria in food really beneficial?

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Bugs in baby food? Microbes in your milkshake? Relax, this is not the latest tainted food scare -- it's a growing trend in foods designed to boost health, not make you s...
Iraqi judicial system struggles

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi judges and their families live behind 12-foot blast walls. Hundreds of lawyers have fled the country. Critics complain about rapid-fire trials in an ove...
Space shuttle launch scrubbed after fuel gauge fails a second time

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA called off Sunday's planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis after a gauge in the fuel tank failed for the second time in four days. It ...
Members of 'lonely profession' get valuable support at writers group

By Jennifer Patterson Daily Herald Columnist
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Writing is a lonely profession, according to Amy Gail Hansen of Algonquin. You can sit at your desk for hours agonizing over a single phrase -- or the words can pour fr...

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