Illinois
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Prominent lawyer may join Blagojevich legal team
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Prominent criminal defense attorney Terence P. Gillespie may join former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's legal team, a move that would guarantee Blagojevich at least one solid, b...
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Railroad police officer fatally shoots suspect
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - A man was shot to death by a Canadian National Railway police officer after he was allegedly fired upon in Homewood. Canadian National spokesman Patrick Waldron said two...
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Quinn issues 'emergency' calls for public works spendingMar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn ratcheted up pressure on lawmakers Monday to pass even a truncated public works package in the next two weeks, declaring "This is an emergency." In launch...
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Quinn says it's OK if taxes cost him his job
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he realizes that his proposal to raise income taxes could cost him another term, but he has to do what's right. Quinn said at a press confer...
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Naked man rescued after bridge jump
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- The co-pilot of a police helicopter rescued a naked man who had jumped from a bridge into the Mississippi River south of St. Louis. It happened late Sunday,...
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Trash burn sparks downstate brush fires
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - PEMBROKE TOWNSHIP -- Pembroke Township Fire Chief Mark Baines says residents burning garbage were probably to blame for three brush fires that hit his area of Kankakee C...
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Police ticket dozens of students after basketball tournament
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- State police say they cited 83 people for underage drinking following several parties in the Peoria area after the first day of a high school state basketball ...
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Gettysburg Address reading falls short of record
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- An attempt to honor Abraham Lincoln by setting a new world record for the most people reading aloud fell short of the goal -- and by a lot more than four ...
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State's nursing homes tops in younger mentally ill
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois ranks highest among the states in the number of mentally ill adults under age 65 living in nursing homes: 12,736 last year, according to an Associated Press ana...
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Alleged 'enemy combatant' faces trial in Illinois
Mar 21, 2009 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- Ali al-Marri followed his older brother to central Illinois in the mid-1980s to pursue a business education unavailable in his native Qatar, becoming a Bulls f...