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Economy, smoking ban snuff casino profits

By John Patterson Daily Herald Staff
Nov 12, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - A sinking economy and state smoking ban have combined to torpedo Illinois casinos, whose take from gamblers plummeted more than 25 percent last month compa...
Obama to give up Senate seat this Sunday

Associated Press
Nov 12, 2008 10:00 pm - President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that he will resign from the Senate effective Sunday. In a statement, the junior Illinois senator called his four-year term "...
Cops: Downstate racetrack robbed

Associated Press
Nov 12, 2008 10:00 pm - COLLINSVILLE -- Authorities are trying to pinpoint who robbed a southwestern Illinois horse-racing track. Police in Collinsville say someone armed with a handgun held up...
Judge dismisses U.S. Rep. Davis' traffic ticket

Associated Press
Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - A judge has dismissed a 2007 traffic ticket issued to U.S. Rep. Danny Davis. The Democratic congressman from Illinois had protested the ticket, claiming it was the resul...
Illinois astronaut headed into space again

Associated Press
Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - BELLEVILLE -- An astronaut with Illinois ties is heading back into space. Forty-four-year-old Belleville native Sandra Magnus is scheduled to lift off Friday with six ot...
Illinois man charged with molesting 3 girls

Associated Press
Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - A 40-year-old Streator man has been charged with four sexual abuse counts and is accused of molesting three girls under the age of 16. Robert Elliott was held in the LaS...
Study advising separating Great Lakes, Mississippi basins

Associated Press
Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Waterways engineered more than a century ago to connect the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds should be altered to stop the exchange of invasive species that ...
Dog shot in face with arrow recovering

Associated Press
Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - KANE -- A southwestern Illinois dog shot in the face with an arrow last week is recovering. The 7-year-old German shepherd named Sassy Mae was wounded early Nov. 5 in th...
Former Ryan prosecutors reunited

Daily Herald Staff Report
Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Patrick Collins and Joel Levin are getting the old band back together. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Collins, the Lisle native who successfully prosecuted former G...
Marion to get new truck terminal

Associated Press
Nov 11, 2008 10:00 pm - MARION -- An East St. Louis-based trucking company says it's expanding to Marion, meaning it'll need to hire 100 drivers. Marion Mayor Bob Butler says Beelman Truck Co. ...

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