Illinois
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Firefighter killed during training exercise
Oct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - DECATUR -- Investigators in central Illinois are looking into a crash that left a volunteer firefighter dead during a training exercise. Sangamon County Coroner Susan Bo...
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Man gets 41 years for bank holdups
Oct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - BENTON -- A federal judge says an Indiana man should spend more than 41 years in prison for robbing two southern Illinois banks. The judge in Benton also ordered 56-year...
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Downstate woman shot self, husband
Oct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - EL PASO -- A coroner says a woman found dead in her home in the central Illinois town of El Paso died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest. Woodford County Coroner T...
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Voters get say 'concealed carry' question
Oct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - EUREKA -- Voters in 14 Illinois counties will have a chance next month to let Springfield know what they think about citizens' right to carry concealed firearms. The ref...
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Downstate worker sold scrap for office supplies
Oct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - ALTON -- An Alton city worker has been suspended without pay for one month after apparently scrapping tons of metal from the city's wastewater plant, then using the mone...
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Services held for downstate soldier
Oct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - HIGHLAND -- Hundreds of mourners have remembered a fallen southern Illinois soldier as someone who "could turn sorrow into laughter." At services Saturday in Highland, f...
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Constitutional convention supporters hold rally
Oct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn and former state Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka were among the speakers at a rally in Chicago Sunday to drum up support for a constitutional convention. ...
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Suburban races could decide if Dems keep control in SpringfieldOct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - A dozen suburban state Senate and House races could decide the balance of partisan power at the state Capitol as both parties now ramp up ads and grass-roo...
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Family needs $11K to save free-flying macaws
Oct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - CARLINVILLE -- The family of the late Del Nejmanowski of Carlinville have set up a fund at a local bank and are seeking donations to trap his two former pet macaws and s...
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Hall's request to withdraw guilty plea is denied
Oct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - BELLEVILLE -- A St. Clair County judge has denied a woman's request to withdraw her guilty plea in the death of her pregnant friend, the unborn child and the victim's th...