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U of I to warn students about Mexico travel

Associated Press
Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - URBANA -- The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning students headed for Mexico for spring break of a surge in drug-related violence south...
Latest Burris scandal renews call for special election

By Dan Carden Daily Herald Staff
Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Backed by a legal opinion from the state's attorney general, Republican lawmakers on Thursday once again demanded the General Assembly order a special elec...
No Blago is a good sign

By Marni Pyke
Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Politicians plastering their names on Illinois State Toll Highway Authority property is officially a bad idea. Tollway directors Thursday approved a new policy offering ...
Madigan: Lawmakers can move up Senate election

Associated Press
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois General Assembly can constitutionally pass a law that moves up the date of the next election for President Barack Obama's former Senate seat,...
Gov. Quinn says tax hike talk 'premature'

By John Patterson Daily Herald Staff
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Pat Quinn said today that talk of a huge state tax increase in next month's budget proposal is "premature," and he reminded local officials and intere...
Judge says principal didn't report abuse suspicion

Associated Press
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - URBANA -- A Champaign County judge has convicted Janice Bradley, the former principal of Thomas Paine Elementary School in Urbana, of failure to report suspicions of chi...
Attorney General to appeal "moment of silence" ruling

Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will appeal a federal court ruling striking down Illinois' "Moment of Silence" law, her office said recently. The Moment of Silenc...
Sources: Feds moving enemy combatant to Ill. court

Associated Press
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors plan to move an alleged al-Qaida sleeper agent out of a Navy brig in South Carolina and send him to federal court in Illinois to face t...
Sci-fi author Philip Jose Farmer dies

Associated Press
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - PEORIA -- Philip Jose Farmer, one of the most celebrated science fiction writers of the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 91. Farmer died Wednesday in his sleep, accordin...
Quinn plans to reopen 7 closed Ill. state parks

Associated Press
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Despite a budget deficit of $9 billion or more, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he'll soon reopen seven closed state parks. Quinn's predecessor, Rod Blagojev...

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