Illinois
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Special session planned on transit crisisNov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Seeking to distance himself from the blame game over a looming transit meltdown, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday called lawmakers into yet another special session to hash...
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Mother of Drew Peterson says wife ran off, is 'ashamed'
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - The mother of a 53-year-old former police officer suspected in the disappearance of his 23-year-old wife is backing up her son's assertions that the woman ran off with a...
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Blagojevich presses ahead with health insurance initiative
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich is moving ahead with a multimillion-dollar health-care program, even after lawmakers refused to approve the money and the rules for i...
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Case of AIDS, secrets heads to Illinois supreme courtNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Imagine the nightmare. Your son has AIDS. He brings home his fiancée to meet the family and you think she's great. But soon your son's health is deteriora...
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Newt's return sign of GOP's failuresNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - Newt Gingrich has reared his ugly head again. You remember him, the former Republican speaker of the house, the man who got his terminally ill wife to sign their divorce...
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WFLD Channel 32 wins local Emmy for overall station excellenceNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - WFLD Channel 32 won the local Emmy for overall station excellence Sunday, but in accepting the award reporter Larry Yellen promptly cracked a joke about host Jeff Garlin...
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Time for political courage on Social Security reformNov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - It's one of the toughest and most divisive issues facing the American people. And how we respond will have a profound impact on future generations. Yet many elected offi...
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Another presidential debate that wasn't very helpful to votersNov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - During Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was given a chance to answer the question about offering driver's li...
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Friends, relatives won't give up
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - A bright pink placard reading "Where's our sister Stacy?" was among half a dozen signs left on former police officer Drew Peterson's front porch Saturday by participants...
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Column stirs up Democrat rivalsNov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Top Democratic rivals for president tore into each other Saturday after a conservative columnist asserted front-runner Hillary Clinton claimed to have dama...