Illinois
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Transit funding still stuck
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- State lawmakers went home Thursday with nothing to show for two days of special sessions but promising to keep working toward an agreement on mass transit...
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Pastor says Stacy Peterson told him she feared her husband
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - The missing wife of a former police officer told a clergy member two months before she disappeared that she feared her husband, a church official said Thursday. Stacy Pe...
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Edwardsville man dies hanging Christmas lights
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- Officials say a man has died after being shocked and falling off a ladder while hanging Christmas lights outside his Edwardsville home. Edwardsville Fire...
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Missed child support ends up costing him plenty
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- An $82-a-week obligation has snowballed into a $1.2 million expense for a businessman who was supposed to deduct child support payments from his son's pay...
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Residents say Peterson case has shaken their confidence in policeNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Eighteen times in two years, police were called to fellow officer Drew Peterson's Bolingbrook home because of trouble between husband and wife. But Peterson's wife could...
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Vivid contrasts in style in battle between Giuliani, RomneyNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - BEDFORD, N.H. -- Call them Mr. Rough and Mr. Smooth. Or maybe Mr. Nasty and Mr. Nice. The intense battle between Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney for supremacy in the Jan. ...
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National Archives to house records in underground quarry
Nov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - VALMEYER -- Preparations have been completed on a 6-million-square-foot underground limestone quarry called Rock City that will house the National Archives and Records A...
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Another transit bailout plan runs off tracksNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- State lawmakers rejected using suburban and Chicago gas sales to bailout the region's bus and train agencies Wednesday as a "doomsday" deadline for route ...
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Reports: Peterson moved container out of his home on day wife vanished
Nov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - A relative of former police officer Drew Peterson reportedly helped him move a large, heavy container out of his suburban home the day his wife vanished, an allegation t...
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Briefs: Teen charged in murderNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - A 16-year-old Chicago boy was charged Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a University of Chicago graduate student from Senegal and a string of armed robberies around the...