Illinois
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Lawmakers recommendation: Impeach BlagojevichJan 07, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich should be impeached for failing to put the state's interests before his own and losing the citizens' confidence, an Illinois House pan...
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87-year-old bowls perfect game, ends up in ER
Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - BELLEVILLE -- Eighty-seven-year-old Belleville retiree Dale Van Blair was on quite a roll when he bowled a perfect game this week. A day later, he didn't have any good l...
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Couple move in above their shop
Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - KEWANEE -- Sue and Will Sagmoen no longer commute to their business in Kewanee and no longer have lawns to mow and leaves to rake around their suburban home. Frequent tr...
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What does Blagojevich get out of Senate appointment?Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Gov. Rod Blagojevich could have expected Tuesday's spectacle in Washington, D.C., as his U.S. Senate appointee was denied a seat representing Illinois in the upper chamb...
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Illinois House members sworn in under shadow of Blago scandalJan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois' D.C. lawmakers found their state the target of considerable ribbing Tuesday in the halls of Congress, as the media questioned Senate appointee Roland Burris in...
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White says he's taking too much blame in Burris saga
Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White says he's being unfairly blamed by members of the U.S. Senate for not seating Roland Burris. Burris was barred from taking Presid...
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Exelon slows LaSalle reactor for refueling outageJan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - Exelon Corp. is slowing the LaSalle 2 reactor in Illinois for a refueling outage. The reactor was operating at 89 percent of capacity early today, according to a report ...
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Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks
Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, but may...
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Illinois delegation stumps for reviving FutureGen project
Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Members of Illinois congressional delegation left a meeting with President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary encouraged that an experimenta...
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Burris affidavit shows little contact with Blago
Jan 05, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- In a formal affidavit, Roland Burris says he had only one limited conversation with Governor Rod Blagojevich before accepting his appointment as a U.S. se...