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St. Charles scraps Wal-Mart planAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - About 20 St. Charles residents cheered Tuesday after officials scrapped plans for a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the city's east side. The 7-0 decision by plan commissioners...
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Briefs: Some Rt. 64 lanes closedAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Some lanes of Route 64 in downtown St. Charles will be closed this week while crews repair curbs between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Street. The work is scheduled to start th...
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Happy landing for Endeavour
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Even as the wounded space shuttle Endeavour brought its seven astronauts safely home Tuesday, NASA looked ahead to three more launches at risk fo...
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Ugandans demand journalist's deportation
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - KAMPALA, Uganda -- Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday, denouncing what they called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportat...
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ComEd worker killed by power lineAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - A ComEd employee was fatally electrocuted while working on a power line in Lombard Tuesday. The 25-year-old employee was electrocuted around 2:27 p.m. near 135 S. Lodge ...
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Briefs: GOP field narrows in county board raceAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - And then there were two. Naperville attorney David Wentz announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from the Feb. 5 Republican primary race for a DuPage County Board District ...
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Warnings about dangers of flood watersAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - With continuing heavy rains, McHenry County Department of Health cautions residents of the dangers of floodwater contaminated with bacteria, viruses and other organisms....
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Kirk calls for boycott over BP dumpingAug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - After outcry over a permit extension that allows oil company BP to continue dumping ammonia and mercury into Lake Michigan, Rep. Mark Kirk urged a boycott of the company...
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Read a lot? You're in the minority
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- There it sits on your night stand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open. Tonight, as you feel its stare from ...
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Study: High blood pressure a youth problem
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- More than 1 million U.S. youngsters have undiagnosed high blood pressure, leaving them at risk for developing organ damage down the road, a study suggests. Ca...