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Area dentists honored for their workOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - The McHenry County Cooperative Dental Clinic had a little more to smile about last week as its director, Diane Metrick, DDS, and founder, Joseph F. Hagenbruch, DDS, rece...
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Get a load of your new, harder-to-fake driver's licenses
Oct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - The state of Illinois is redesigning its driver's licenses to make it harder to produce fake IDs. New security features include two pictures instead of one, and a motori...
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California's fire losses to be in hundreds of millionsOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- The fires raging in Southern California have likely caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to homes and businesses, the state's insuranc...
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GOP leaders continue their women's movementOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - A dozen Republican state legislators -- calling themselves Women's Voice Illinois -- visited Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove Tuesday to ask health-care...
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Elk Grove off-track betting parlor now openOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - An Elk Grove Village sports bar has added off-track betting to the menu. Ringside Sports Bar and Restaurant now features more than 50 TVs for horse race betting just in...
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All wet is all good for DuPage County forest districtOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Plans for the new Dunham Forest Preserve are all wet, and that's fine with commissioners. DuPage Forest Preserve District leaders Tuesday heard details of a master plan ...
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Ambulance transporting Chicago Marathon runner got lost
Oct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - The ambulance that rushed a dying Chicago Marathon runner from the race to the hospital apparently got lost on the way, authorities said. Chad Schieber collapsed while r...
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Meet Texas' 'Killer Keller'
Oct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - AUSTIN, Texas -- The path to the nation's busiest death chamber winds through a court of last resort where the presiding judge recently refused to keep her office open p...
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Gymnast medals in 6 events at Special Olympic World games in ChinaOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Marc Janovics, 28, of Mount Prospect, returned last week from world competition in China to the comfortable surroundings of the Elk Grove Gymnastics School where he has ...
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Wheaton giving up on getting bigger JewelOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Wheaton's quest for a bigger, better downtown grocery store has been mired in corporate limbo for years, but a new approach may shift the project into the express checko...