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Environmental group to hold book saleDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - The Defenders used book sale is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Saturday until the end of December at 1146 McConnell Road, behind the Farm Bureau Building. There are thousan...
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Judge lets ACLU be party to 'moment of silence' lawsuitDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - The American Civil Liberties Union will join a lawsuit that seeks to have the Illinois "moment of silence" law banned in schools. The lawsuit has been brought by Dawn Sh...
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Chicago cops bust open-air drug market
Dec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - Chicago police say they have arrested 11 alleged gang members and shut down an open-air drug market in the city's West Pullman neighborhood that also was a pipeline to s...
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Kaneland grad remembered as caring and hard-workingDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - Jenny Flaherty was ready to give up many of her Christmas presents this year. The 19-year-old Waubonsee Community College student told her family she should be included ...
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Parcel bomb explosion kills 1, seriously injures another in Paris
Dec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - PARIS -- A parcel bomb exploded at a lawyer's office in central Paris on Thursday, killing one person and seriously injuring another, officials said. The Interior Minist...
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Elgin Theatre Company to hold auditions for farceDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - The Elgin Theatre Company will hold auditions for the comedy "Run For Your Wife" from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 16 and 7 to 9 p.m. Dec. 17 at Wesley United Methodist Church, 1...
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Drug that curbs addictions increasingly deadly on own
Dec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The rate of drug users who fatally overdose on methadone -- a prescription that curbs heroin addiction -- is skyrocketing at an alarming pace, a Justice De...
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O'Hare cemetery appeal rejected
Dec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - Opponents of expansion at O'Hare International Airport were rebuffed yet again Wednesday in their attempts to stop Chicago officials from gutting a cemetery for a new ru...
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District 158 school board flap eruptsDec 05, 2007 10:00 pm - The controversy over a Nov. 13 meeting of the Huntley Unit District 158 school board was taken to another level Wednesday with a series of revelations and accusations. T...
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Northwest slowly recovering from record-breaking storm
Dec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - CENTRALIA, Wash. -- A storm that battered the Pacific Northwest for two days moved on Tuesday, leaving behind flooded homes, fallen trees and washed-out roads, including...