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Threatened trees found at mine site

Associated Press
Sep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - BANNER -- Opponents of a proposed strip mine near the central Illinois community of Banner say the recent discovery of a threatened plant species on the property should ...
Watchdog group criticizes parole board

Associated Press
Sep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A prison watchdog group is criticizing the Illinois Prisoner Review Board as being too stingy in granting parole requests from the state's longest-s...
German firm to revive FutureGen project

Bloomberg News
Sep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - E.ON AG, Germany's biggest power utility, and partners plan to revive a project to build a coal-fired generator that doesn't emit greenhouse gases after the U.S. preside...
Budget crisis means pay cut for some state workers

Associated Press
Sep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Nearly 4,000 Illinois government employees will lose four days of pay because of state budget cuts, Secretary of State Jesse White announced Monday. Facin...
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...

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