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Evel Knievel, a true daredevil, dies
Nov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho'...
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Durbin again pledges money for North Chicago schoolsNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - In a North Chicago classroom filled with fifth-graders -- including children of U.S. military personnel -- Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday again pledged to secure fed...
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Special election will be headache for officialsNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - No matter if it's held Feb. 5 or another day before the end of March, the special primary election required because of former U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert's resignation this...
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Online gaming goes social
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Jo Ann Hicks doesn't identify with gamers, but she spends hours online every day playing "Kaneva." The 41-year-old homemaker likes the shopping-and-partying game -- whe...
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Bensenville dreams of new neighborhoodsNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Bensenville leaders have their hearts set on transforming a largely industrial part of town into a new residential area with some commercial properties. But to make that...
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'Outstanding salesman'; expert in insurance businessNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - It was just two years ago that all 177 employees of Assurance in Schaumburg gathered at a holiday party to honor their founders, Jim Blackburn and Jerome Evan Powell. Th...
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Lake County club notesNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - To submit a listing, send e-mail to clubs@dailyherald.com, or fax to Club News at (847) 427-1301. Listings must be received no later than two weeks prior to the event. B...
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Church youth group exceeds fundraising goalNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Members of the high school youth group at the Congregational Church of Batavia have had to revise an ambitious goal they set for 2007. It wasn't that they couldn't make ...
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Sudan convicts British teacher
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A Sudanese court convicted a British teacher Thursday of insulting Islam for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced her to 15 d...
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Bug man brings show to SycamoreNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Hissing cockroaches, bird-eating spiders, tarantulas and giant millipedes are a few of the bugs Ruud Kleinpaste comes into contact with on a regular basis. Next week, th...