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Not all fires contained, yet
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. -- Firefighters battled stubborn wildfires across Southern California on Saturday, but cloudy skies scattering occasional raindrops brought a welc...
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Chapter 6: Administrator pay vs. teacher payOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Teachers get fewer apples from students these days, but their paychecks now more than compensate for the loss. Between 1998 and 2006, the average teacher pay in 94 subur...
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Harry Potter, a leftist hero?Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - PARIS, -- Harry Potter -- left-wing hero of the intellectual aristocracy against the materialist middle classes? Well, yes, according to the French daily Liberation. To ...
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Uncertain future between Neumann Homes, GilbertsOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Neumann Homes' announcement this week that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy means an uncertain future for an agreement between the homebuilder, the village of Gilb...
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Driver in 80s strikes, kills mother, 2 children
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Church facelift a matter of faithOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - No one intended a multipurpose room to house church services. Sure, the space could double for athletics or a ballroom, but for Sunday Mass? Over the next 10 months whil...
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Pastor's travels lead him to prison ministryOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - The Rev. Barry Kolb of Lord of Life Lutheran Church in LaFox was on a plane recently when a stranger asked him what he did for a living. "I said, 'What day of the week i...
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Glen Ellyn celebrates Halloween with paradeOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Glen Ellyn resident Bill Folkmar and his 5-year-old son William, who was dressed for the day as a red Power Ranger, had a plan. "He wants to do the parade. Right after t...
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Trading spaces -- outer space addition
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Doctor is hopeful for a malaria vaccineOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - ROCKVILLE, Md. -- In a nondescript office park tucked between a hospital and a strip mall thrive hundreds of thousands of the most infectious malaria-carrying mosquitoes...