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At least 15 dead in accident
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO IXHUATAN, Mexico -- Authorities have recovered the bodies of 15 Central American migrants whose boat capsized in the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican navy said o...
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Campton Hills, meet your first chiefOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Sunday spotlight A long look at local newsmakers For Greg Anderson, the clock started ticking the day he was hired. Forty-six days to build a police department from scr...
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Light magicOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Like most of us, Colin Cranmer is a walking contradiction. He's equal parts organized and wildly creative. For example, when it comes to his art, which he calls "devic...
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Teen survives lightning strike
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - A 14-year-old Chicago boy now belongs to an exclusive club. Jason Torres was struck by lightning and lived to tell about it. He was struck as he rode a bike during storm...
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Crash near Elburn injures threeOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Three people were injured Saturday in a nearly head-on crash between a pick-up truck and a semi-tractor trailer near Elburn. It appeared Annette M. Theobald, 47, of 46W6...
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Talks, walks with teen are really great giftsOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Every so often my 15-year-old daughter takes me for a walk. Sometimes it's her idea. I get home from work or take a break from some weekend job and find she is standing ...
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Myanmar lifts curfew after quelling protests
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar lifted a curfew on Saturday and ended a ban on assembly imposed during a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests -- the latest sign the mil...
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Johnny Doe lovingly laid to rest, but still needs his real nameOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Somber statistics suggest that some 30,000 children under the age of 5 were buried throughout the world on Monday. One of them was Johnny Doe of DuPage County. Only John...
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Abuse inside our schools: The findings
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Major findings of AP's investigation • A total of 2,570 educators nationwide were punished for sexual misconduct from 2001 to 2005, representing about a quarter of all e...
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Arrogance isn't good for science or religionOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - "Dark energy" makes up 74 percent of the universe, and scientists confess that after 10 years of study they don't have any idea what it is. This awareness has "shaken th...