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Ex-state worker gets 30 months for theft

Associated Press
Feb 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A former employee in the Illinois state treasurer's office has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing at least $263,000 from taxpayers. Debra ...
Gov. Quinn makes 2 staff picks

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - New Gov. Pat Quinn has a well-worn image as a political outsider, so when it came to picking his new chief of staff he didn't tap a big-time wheeler-dealer as his right-...
Quinn names 28-year-old to veterans' affairs post

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Returning to his favorite cause for one of the first times since becoming Illinois governor, Pat Quinn on Sunday tapped his 28-year-old aide and mentee to head the state...
Teen arrested in stepfather's stabbing death

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - COUNTRY CLUB HILLS -- Police in the south Chicago suburb of Country Club Hills have arrested a 14-year-old boy who fled after allegedly fatally stabbing his stepfather i...
2 Illinois Guardsmen dead in Afghanistan

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - KABUL, Afghanistan -- Authorities say two Illinois National Guard soldiers were killed as they tried to help police defuse a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Initial report...
Intruder cooks, eats steak in Peoria home

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - PEORIA -- Police in Peoria say a local man returned to his home to find someone had broken in, but nothing was missing -- except a $6 steak that he had left out to thaw....
Crews clean 65,000-gallon oil spill near Joliet

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency says the Des Plaines River shoreline and embankments in suburban Chicago are being scoured to determine if waterfowl or aquatic life ...
New tollway chief? No one told the new governor

By Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - When the tollway board picked a new chief Friday to run the multibillion-dollar highway system that rings the suburbs, Gov. Pat Quinn knew nothing about it. He read abo...
Ill. monument to coal miners planned

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - SESSER -- Plans are under way to honor Franklin County coal miners with a memorial planned in the southern Illinois town of Sesser. Sesser Monument Co. has been tapped t...
It's time to step up for ethics reform

Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Former Governor Rod Blagojevich, a self-professed student of history, did not seem to pay the least bit of attention to the recent history of his predecessor, Gov. Georg...

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