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Mundelein volunteer to help Katrina victimsOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - More than two years after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, a Mundelein resident is headed to Louisiana to help rebuild homes there. Dana Potts will work in St. Bern...
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Latte era grinds downOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Brian Lacroix, a 34-year-old computer engineer, developed a taste for expensive coffees. Earlier this year, however, he stopped frequenting a French coffee shop in Dalla...
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Doctors urge autism screening for all toddlers
Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - The country's leading pediatricians group is making its strongest push yet to have all children screened for autism twice by age 2, warning of symptoms such as babies w...
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Food pantry touts improvementsOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - The Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry has more space and a new way of doing business. Volunteers will show off both things at an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 11. About ...
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No evidence Iran working on nuclear weapons, U.N. watchdog says
Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escal...
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St. Hubert's ready for major renovationOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Jeanne Murphy has a sentimental attachment to St. Hubert Parish in Hoffman Estates. "All the important events of my family's life have happened here," said the Hoffman E...
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Israeli leader Olmert says he has prostate cancer
Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - JERUSALEM (AP) _ Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Monday that he has prostate cancer but that the disease is not life threatening and he will continue to perform his...
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Oil company sues over county's authority to refuse building permitOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Lawyers for McHenry County will appear at a federal courthouse in Rockford this week in hopes of staving off a Canadian company's effort to build a crude oil pumping sta...
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Fire at S. Carolina beach house kills 7 students
Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A weekend of fun vanished in a storm of fire and smoke that killed seven college friends and left behind a gutted beach house and an emotionally d...
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Drought leaves Georgia scrambling
Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- Despite plenty of warnings, critics say, Georgia never got around to developing a water management plan to handle a severe drought. Now that reservoirs alread...