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New state task force will focus on quakes

Associated Press
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The state's creating a panel aimed at improving earthquake preparedness. The Illinois Seismic Safety Task Force will assess how high-risk portions of the state have pre...
Lawyers: E-mail proves IDOT firings were political

Associated Press
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Lawyers for former state workers who claim they were fired because of politics say an e-mail calling for the ouster of a prominent Republican backs them u...
Corrections wants Stateville open, Pontiac closed

Associated Press
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois Department of Corrections is shelving plans to shutter a maximum security unit in Joliet, targeting a more than 130-year-old prison in Pontiac for closure i...
Obama edges Clinton in Guam, but delegates will split

Associated Press
May 03, 2008 11:00 pm - HAGATNA, Guam -- Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. The count of more than 4,500 ballots ...
GOP voters may be the key in Indiana

By Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff
May 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Come Tuesday, traditional Republican voters in neighboring Indiana may be the decisive vote in this year's divisive Democratic primary. For Barack Obama, this is bad new...
Hotel employee accused of letting guests stay free

Associated Press
May 03, 2008 11:00 pm - BLOOMINGTON -- A 23-year-old Bloomington hotel employee accused of letting a number of people stay in rooms without paying has told police she let them stay only because...
Rockford police say they arrested naked Romeoville hostage-taker

Associated Press
May 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Police in northern Illinois arrest naked hostage-taker ROCKFORD -- Police have arrested a 32-year-old naked man who allegedly took a woman hostage and threw furniture ou...
Wife of broadcaster Paul Harvey dies

Associated Press
May 03, 2008 11:00 pm - RIVER FOREST -- Lynne Harvey, wife of longtime broadcaster Paul Harvey, has died. Lynne Harvey died early Saturday at the couple's home in the Chicago suburb of River Fo...
Resolute volunteers define grass roots

By David Beery Daily Herald Staff
May 03, 2008 11:00 pm - As Tuesday's Indiana primary closes in, plenty of folks think the Democratic nomination contest has dragged on long enough, thank you. If it feels long to us, consider h...
Last-minute Rezko witness packs a punch

Associated Press
May 03, 2008 11:00 pm - At the last minute, federal prosecutors have inserted a surprising and powerful stinger in the tail of the biggest corruption trial in Illinois since the George Ryan cas...

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