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Teen gets 4 years in pizza theft

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2008 10:00 pm - BLOOMINGTON -- A Bloomington teenager will spend four years in prison for stealing three pizzas and an order of breadsticks. A judge sentenced 19-year-old Joshua Wilburn...
Bad ham? Health dept.'s Christmas party goes bad

Associated Press
Dec 21, 2008 10:00 pm - LAWRENCEVILLE -- Phyllis Wells can't yet say precisely what sickened her and dozens of other workers of the county's health department during an office Christmas gatheri...
Smoking ban working well in Illinois prisons

Associated Press
Dec 21, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The state's year-old indoor smoking ban is working well in Illinois prisons where inmates, who once had been allowed to smoke in their cells, have been fo...
Financial meltdown slowing wind-power boom

Associated Press
Dec 21, 2008 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Grain farmer Mike Doyle has grown to love the big, spindly wind turbines that rise from his central Illinois prairie. Their blades, many more than 100 feet,...
Obama review of Blagojevich contacts set for Tuesday

Associated Press
Dec 21, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama plans to reveal on Tuesday his staff's conversations with the Illinois governor accused of trying to sell Obama's Senate seat,...
Illinois remains fifth in population among states

Associated Press
Dec 21, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- According to a new population estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau, Illinois remains the nation's fifth most populous state -- trailing California, Texas, ...
Talk is cheap, but it still can be a crime

By Joseph Ryan and Rob Olmstead Daily Herald Staff
Dec 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Confronted with taped conversations of the governor allegedly scheming to sell off a U.S. Senate seat and state business, Gov. Rod Blagojevich's defense attorney shrugs ...
LaHood hand delivers Ryan plea to Bush aide

Associated Press
Dec 20, 2008 10:00 pm - KANKAKEE - Former Gov. George Ryan's wife says she has written a letter asking President George Bush to let her husband come home from prison. "I asked (the president) t...
Who gains, who loses?

By Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff
Dec 20, 2008 10:00 pm - The two-term governor's arrest has given the struggling state Republican Party a possible lifeline and simultaneously has provided a platform for many top Democrats. Yet...
Blagojevich may get free defense

By Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff
Dec 19, 2008 10:00 pm - How Gov. Rod Blagojevich might foot the bill to defend himself on criminal and impeachment charges may have become clearer Friday with at least one defense attorney indi...

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