Illinois
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Ill. governor's chief of staff resigns
Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - The chief of staff to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has resigned, three days after he was arrested on government corruption charges along with his boss. A Blagojevic...
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ACH Food to close 2 Illinois plants
Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- ACH Food Companies is closing two Illinois facilities next year, which means the loss of more than 450 jobs in central Illinois. The Memphis, Tenn.-based co...
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Madigan asks state Supreme Court to declare Blagojevich unfitDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan moved to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to oust Gov. Rod Blagojevich, arguing he can "no longer fulfill his official duties with a...
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Did Obama team have contact with Blago?
Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Barack Obama insists he didn't have any contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or anyone else who might have been scheming to sell the president-elect's U.S. Senate ...
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Illinois soldier gets Silver Star
Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Capt. Kyle Walton remembers pressing himself into the jagged stones that covered the cliff in northeast Afghanistan. Machine gun rounds and sniper fi...
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Blago 'upbeat' as resignation demands multiply
Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - With pressure mounting by the hour for him to resign or face impeachment, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich returned to work Thursday in what an aide described as an attempt...
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Teen gets probation for attack 12-year-old
Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - BELLEVILLE -- A 14-year-old southwestern Illinois boy who sexually attacked a 12-year-old girl after forcing her into a shed will be spending the next five years on prob...
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Obama denies any involvement in scheme to sell Senate seatDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - President-elect Barack Obama said this morning his office had "no involvement in any deal making" related to Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempts to trade his vacant ...
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Man ordered imprisoned in 2006 slayingDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- One of two suspects in the 2006 killing of a St. Louis acquaintance whose body was found on a southwestern Illinois island is headed to prison for 20 yea...
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Deputy governor is 'Senate Candidate 4'
Dec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Illinois Deputy Governor Louanner Peters was identified Thursday as one of the Senate candidates that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was accused of using to his political benefit ...