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Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. Illinois ran...
Quinn: Adults don't 'put off decisions'

By John Patterson and Dan Carden Daily Herald Staff
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Like a parent scolding misbehaving children, Gov. Pat Quinn admonished lawmakers Tuesday for putting off the state's problems and warned them a long, hot s...
Sheley asks to move murder trial out of Galesburg

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - GALESBURG -- Attorneys for Nicholas Sheley have asked that his first murder trial be moved out of Knox County because they believe a local jury probably won't impartial....
Governor Quinn vetoes bare-bones budget

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Pat Quinn has vetoed the bare-bones budget lawmakers sent him. Quinn's veto Wednesday leaves the state without a spending plan on the first day of th...
Illinois judge arrested for DUI

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON, Ill. -- Police say a Peoria County judge has been arrested and charged with drunken driving. Washington police chief Jim Kuchenbecker said Tuesday that Assoc...
Galena to host Civil War encampment

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The War Between the States will return to Galena with a Civil War encampment July 18-19 near the Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site. Re-enactors of...
Judge orders state to meet child welfare rules

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - A federal judge says planned cuts in child-welfare services envisioned under the so-called doomsday budget passed by both houses of the Illinois legislature violate basi...
Federal judge won't block BP refinery expansion

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - HAMMOND, Ind. -- A federal judge has rejected a move by environmentalists to stop the $3.8 billion expansion of BP's oil refinery along Lake Michigan. Judge Philip Simon...
Advocates call for 220 mph Midwest train service

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - High-speed rail advocates have unveiled an ambitious, $11.5 billion plan for "ultra-fast" train service between Chicago and St. Louis that could cut travel times by more...
Historians uncover Civil War past of Peoria cemetery

Associated Press
Jun 30, 2009 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- Here is part of Pvt. Frederick Palmer's letter about the events of Aug. 31, 1861: -- "About noon, we ran into a large force of the enemy's cavalry, who were sc...

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