Illinois
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Charges will be dropped against mom who left child in car
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Charges will be dropped against a woman who briefly left her 2-year-old daughter alone in the car to take her two older daughters to pour coins into a Salvation Army ket...
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Man, woman indicted, accused of sexually assaulting twins
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. -- A federal grand jury indictment accuses a Wisconsin man and an Illinois woman of taking sexually explicit photographs of the woman's 6-year-old twin gir...
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Leaders sample drinks before voting on themMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois lawmakers cracked down on alcoholic energy drinks Wednesday even as some cracked open a few. An Illinois Senate committee voted 8-2 to require st...
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Illinois water quality probed
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is expanding its water quality monitoring to determine the possible presence of pharmaceuticals that could exist in state wa...
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Man charged in threats against students
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Virginia man is behind bars charged with making online death threats against a University of Illinois student and others, referring to the Virginia Tech shootings. U.S...
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Beck testifies on Rezko's sway with boardMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - It was a day of some contradictions Wednesday in the trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko Wednesday, with a wiretap recording seemingly incriminating the defendant, followed by ...
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ComEd to raise electric rates by more than 2 percent in June
Mar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - ComEd says it will raise electric rates an average of 2.5 percent this summer. The company says the price increase that begins in June is necessary because of rising ene...
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Time running out to enact law regulating plastic surgeryMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Legislation designed to place more stringent medical restrictions on the cosmetic surgery profession in the wake of hip-hop star Kanye West's mother's dea...
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Concealed gun bill stuck in a Capitol holdupMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- On a day when hundreds of Illinois gun owners flooded the state capital to oppose gun-control measures, an attempt to allow conceal-to-carry stalled in co...
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2 bars, 5 patrons cited under new Illinois smoking law in Will County
Mar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - JOLIET -- Joliet police and the Will County Health Department have conducted unannounced checks on the Smoke-Free Illinois Act, citing two Joliet bars and five bar patro...