News
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Seeking lawsuit immunity
Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration wants the power to grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that are slapped with privacy suits for cooperating with th...
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FEMA to view damage from stormsAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Six teams of federal and state officials will fan out across storm-ravaged areas in Illinois Tuesday to begin the process of possibly having some counties declared feder...
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Snow resigns, 'ran out of money'
Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush announced Friday that press secretary Tony Snow, who has waged a battle with cancer while manning the White House lectern, will resign and b...
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Driving fuel-efficient hybrid has been fun experienceAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Last week, the price of gas at a Naperville station on 75th Street went from $2.87 Tuesday morning to $3.09 that afternoon. Once, that would have really bugged me. Not s...
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Even pope is going green
Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI is taking a new step in the Vatican's environmental campaign, leading a youth festival this weekend where participants will use recycle...
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True bit needed for this record
Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- A Malaysian man nicknamed "King Tooth" has pulled a seven-coach train using a steel rope clenched in his mouth in an attempt to set a new world...
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Clinton, Oprah, cashAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Oprah Winfrey usually is associated with "The Color Purple." But Wheaton's Kendall Ciesemier may always link the television star to the color green -- as in money. The u...
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Muslims, Jews prepare for holidaysAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Two major religious events from different spiritual traditions will coincide in September, involving thousands of people in the DuPage County area. Ramadan, a month-lon...
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Buffalo Grove's a tricky town -- if that is its real nameAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - On this holiday weekend when cops are on the prowl, there is no telling who might pull you over for traffic offenses in Buffalo Grove. That burly landscaper mowing the g...
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Police beatAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Carpentersville • A man fired a gun at or near a group of people at 12:04 a.m. Friday at the Fox View Apartment Complex. Three people were taken to Sherman Hospital with...