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'Structurally deficient'
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied o...
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Forest Dist. consider hiring in-house lawyerAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Hefty legal fees are prompting DuPage County Forest Preserve District leaders to consider hiring an in-house lawyer. The district has paid $555,211 to its attorneys last...
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CorrectionAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - In a story in Wednesday's Daily Herald, the time for previewing the Rakow's Furniture auction was incorrect. It's from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday....
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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...