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Bill to allow widow to stay in U.S. advances

Associated Press
Sep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House has advanced a special measure to allow an illegal immigrant who cared for her paralyzed husband for 14 years before his death to stay in th...
Peoria woman swept into storm drain

Associated Press
Sep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- She has bruised legs and a hairline fracture in one foot, but 20-year-old Raeann Hamilton of Peoria knows her storm drain ordeal could have had a much worse en...
Man holding 5 hostages surrenders to police

Associated Press
Sep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A police standoff has ended peacefully in Springfield after a man allegedly holding several relatives hostage surrendered to authorities. The suspect repo...
Jet makes emergency landing in Indiana

Associated Press
Sep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - A Southwest Airlines jet carrying more than 100 passengers made an emergency landing at the South Bend Regional Airport after the crew smelled smoke in the cockpit. Airp...
Rep. Bean's campaign cash from PACs hard to match

Associated Press
Sep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Melissa Bean has been in Congress just under four years, but the suburban 8th District Democrat has no shortage of cash for her re-election bid, thanks to ...
Sauerberg gets ally in blasting Durbin for earmarks

Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff
Sep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A chief opponent of so-called pork barrel spending, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, came to candidate Steve Sauerberg's aid Friday and blasted Sen. Dick Durbin on e...
Court rules wrongful death does not cover in vitro embryos

By Robert McCoppin Daily Herald Staff
Sep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A state court ruled Friday that a couple cannot sue for wrongful death for a fertility clinic's destruction of their embryos. The ruling by an Illinois appellate court o...
Woman accused of molesting friend's daughter

Associated Press
Sep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities say a 30-year-old woman from the Harvey was being held in lieu of $250,000 bond after being accused of having a sexual encounter with a friend's teenage dau...
Preschooler in Normal left on school bus

Associated Press
Sep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - NORMAL -- How does a preschooler end up left alone on parked school bus for 30 minutes? That's what officials want to know after an employee at a transportation garage i...
More than 70,000 enrolled at U of I

Associated Press
Sep 11, 2008 11:00 pm - URBANA -- Enrollment is up 1 percent this fall at the University of Illinois' three campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. According to preliminary figur...

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