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Wauconda woman recalls shootingAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - At first, Margaret Wilkosz didn't realize she'd been shot. "It was like a bug that hit my skin," the Wauconda resident recalled Thursday. "Then (there was) the pain." Wi...
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Praise for poochAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Barely out of work nine months, Wood Dale's most recent retiree is already bored and depressed when he should be living the good life. Canine officer Tommy, a 9-year-old...
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Obama: Nuclear weapons to fight terrorism 'not on the table'
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday he would not use nuclear weapons "in any circumstance" to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakist...
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National briefsAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Bridge problems known: MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient,"...
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Police reward goodness with food couponsAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Jim Goschey has seen it. He'll be on patrol as a Naperville Park District police officer, and he'll actually spot someone doing something nice. Once it was a man going o...
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Gregory Middle School teacher Brent Gulick always put kids firstAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - From teaching to coaching, Gregory Middle School teacher Brent Gulick always put kids first. But now special education students at the Naperville school have lost one of...
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The nation's poet
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - CONCORD, N.H. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress annou...
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Report: Libya inks contracts
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - TRIPOLI, Libya -- A Libyan official said Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi's long-isolated country has signed contracts worth $405 million with French companies for missiles...
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A rush-hour routine turns into nightmare
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- Four minutes after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed, police Sgt. Ed Nelson was among those rushing into the dust-filled scene of twisted metal, crushed...
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FedEx is coming to ElginAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - FedEx is absolutely, positively coming to Elgin, a city official confirmed Thursday. That's the explanation behind the massive walls going up along Airport Road northeas...