Illinois
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Army veteran wanted to teachFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - After spending more than a decade on active duty in the Army, Julianna Gehant had set her sights on a new career: teaching. In a recent Christmas card to a former drama ...
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Briefs: Animal shelters support billFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - A state lawmaker's push to outlaw gas chambers to euthanize animals across the state has the backing of about a dozen Illinois animal-rescue shelters that consider the m...
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Hopefuls to debate economics next weekFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - After battling over their respective positions on an Iraq war withdrawal this week, congressional hopefuls Jim Oberweis and Bill Foster are expected to shift the focus o...
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NIU shootings show vulnerability despite efforts to secure schools
Feb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - Bloody students fleeing in terror. Bodies carried out on stretchers. Candlelight vigils and makeshift shrines. Another campus, another deadly attack with a sickening sen...
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State House pays respects to Hyde, Geo-KarisFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois House paid its respects Thursday to former suburban lawmakers who passed away recently -- Henry Hyde and Adeline Geo-Karis. Hyde was best kno...
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Bolingbrook student recounts panic in classroom during shooting
Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - DEKALB -- Desiree Smith wasn't supposed to be in the classroom. The senior journalism major had picked up the geology class at the last minute after dropping another cou...
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Kill sues SIU, challenging breach of contract
Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - CARBONDALE -- Southern Illinois University's former football coach is suing the Carbondale school, disputing claims that he owes nearly $58,000 for breaching his contrac...
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Five people, gunman killed in shooting at NIU lecture hallFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - A former Northern Illinois University student opened fire at the DeKalb campus Thursday and then shot himself, leaving six dead and 15 wounded. At least two of the victi...
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Production halted at Belvidere plantFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - BELVIDERE -- The United Auto Workers union says an "unanticipated parts shortage" has halted production at Chrysler's assembly plant in Belvidere. Production ceased with...
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Peculiarities in the GOP, Democratic presidential racesFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - With metronomic regularity the Clintons say things that remind voters of the aesthetic reason for recoiling from them. Aesthetic considerations even cause many Republica...