Illinois
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Pigeons dying in downstate Ill.
Sep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - ALTON -- Alton is turning into a roach motel for pigeons: They check in but they don't check out. "For about a week now, there have just been dozens of pigeons dying a s...
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Lawsuit alleges abuse at Greek Orthodox Church
Sep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - A former altar boy in a Chicago-area Greek Orthodox Church contends a priest sexually abused him in the 1970s and church officials covered it up. The lawsuit filed Tuesd...
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Concerns over rail sale in NW Indiana
Sep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - GARY, Ind. _ Canadian National Railway Co.'s proposed purchase of a smaller railroad with lines through northwestern Indiana worries those working on plans to extend the...
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Amtrak train derailsSep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - More than 200 Amtrak passengers were delayed after a train traveling from St. Louis to Chicago derailed around 7:50 p.m. One set of wheels on a car came off the tracks a...
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Good-government groups urge override of vetoes
Sep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Eight good-government groups are urging lawmakers in an open letter to reject changes Gov. Rod Blagojevich made to two campaign finance-reform bills. The I...
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Woman dead, man injured in stabbing
Sep 08, 2008 11:00 pm - CARTERVILLE -- A woman is dead and a man hospitalized after an early morning stabbing in southern Illinois. Williamson County Sheriff Tom Cundiff says deputies respondin...
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Fatal traffic accidents declining in Illinois
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- Illinois State Police say 2008 may be least deadly year on Illinois roadways in recent history. Master Sergeant Brian Ley says that as of Friday, only 681 traf...
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Third pleads guilty to downstate bank heist
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - BENTON -- Sentencing is set for December 5th for the last of three men accused of robbing a southern Illinois bank. Sixty-four-year-old John Brown of Evansville, Indiana...
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State police say driver tried to sell hot pizza swiped from Schaumburg
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - GARY, Ind. -- Anthony Herbert Lee must have hoped more than 13 tons of frozen pizza would have him rolling in dough. Instead, he was cooling his heels behind bars. Lee, ...
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Train derailment in Champaign blocks traffic
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Officials say a train derailment in Champaign will continue to block traffic all day. Seven cars came off the Canadian National Railway tracks on State Stre...