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Every American owes nearly $30,000 as their share of government debt
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day -- or nearly $1 million a minute....
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Kane-DuPage erosion seminarDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - The Kane-DuPage Soil and Water Conservation District offers a seminar on "Soil Erosion and Sediment Control" from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at James "Pate" Phillip ...
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Homewood man shot, killed by police after escaping hospitalDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - A Homewood man was fatally shot by authorities after escaping from an Iowa hospital and striking three police cars during a chase in northeast Missouri. The man was ide...
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Freezing rates for risky borrowers won't fix it all
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- If lenders temporarily freeze low introductory interest rates on home loans made to risky borrowers before they soar, it would be a modest fix for the coun...
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Lake Co. sheriff wants deportation powersDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - The Lake County sheriff's office has applied to certify some of its officers to do deportation paperwork processing under a federal program that ignited a storm of contr...
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Congress returns for crowded holiday season agenda
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A daunting agenda confronts lawmakers as they return Monday for an abbreviated holiday season session. Taxes, spending, paying for the war, energy, farm su...
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Eight men claim they had sexual encounters with Craig
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - BOISE, Idaho -- Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho Republican at various times during his political ...
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Celebrated Lyric Opera publicist dies
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- A celebrated publicist for Lyric Opera of Chicago for almost 50 years has died. A Lyric Opera statement says Danny Newman died at his suburban Chicago home Sa...
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Madrigals to perform at libraryDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - Judging by all the holiday lights and decorations I have seen adorning neighborhood homes, it appears that people made good use of the earliest possible Thanksgiving hol...
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Clergy comes out for prayer breakfastDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - John Buchanan delivers a speech every Sunday, but this audience will be a little different. When the pastor at Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church delivers a keynote ad...