Illinois
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Marathon signup laterDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - Organizers of the Chicago Marathon have pushed back registration for the 2008 race. Spokeswoman Marianne Caponi said the event reaches capacity sooner each year and the ...
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Happy new laws, smokers and teen driversDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- In a year in which state leaders have been lambasted for their inability to do much of significance, smokers and teen drivers may beg to differ. Both are ...
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Cops: Downstate hunter shoots himself, dies
Dec 30, 2007 10:00 pm - JOHNSTON CITY, Ill. -- Authorities in Williamson County say a southern Illinois man died after accidentally shooting himself while hunting. Coroner Mike Burke says 53-ye...
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Authorities say apartment fire that left 3 dead could be arson
Dec 30, 2007 10:00 pm - Oak Forest police are questioning two men in connection with an apartment fire that left three people dead. Oak Forest Fire Chief Jim Berger says the volume of the fire ...
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State carnival standards raised
Dec 30, 2007 10:00 pm - A new Illinois law requires background checks on workers who operate amusement park and carnival rides. Governor Rod Blagojevich says the law is designed to protect chi...
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Party switch leaves trail of hurt feelingsDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - On the 27th of June this year, a check from a Hinsdale physician with a history of supporting Republicans arrived in the campaign account of state Rep. Paul Froehlich. T...
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Scandal scars run deep, but this time I have faith in IlliniDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - History indicates Illinois was a shady football program each of the last two times it played in the Rose Bowl. Hmmmmm. In anticipation of the Fighting Illini's appearanc...
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Postcard from the Rose BowlDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Seeking a fresh start for the New Year (and donations for St. Baldrick's fight against children's cancer), I strolled down Wilshire Boulevard on...
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No one delivers a more powerful stump speech than ObamaDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Barack Obama has become a one-trick pony. But what a trick it is! The stump speech he has developed in the closing stages of the pre-Christmas campai...
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One employee dead after minor train derailment near Aurora
Dec 28, 2007 10:00 pm - One railway employee is dead following a small train derailment near a lumber yard southwest of Aurora. Police were called to the scene of a partially overturned train...