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Hopefuls to debate economics next week

By LIsa Smith Daily Herald Staff
Feb 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...
IRS site adds form for rebate filers

Associated Press
Feb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The only way to receive a rebate from the economic stimulus package is to file a tax return, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday. That includes recipi...
FAA streamlines hiring of air traffic controllers

By Dan Caterinicchia Associated Press
Feb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The government says it can trim a month or more off the hiring process for air-traffic controllers. The union representing those workers says the move is n...
NIU shootings show vulnerability despite efforts to secure schools

By Sharon Cohen Associated Press
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...
Canada extradites convicted Nazi war criminal to Italy

Associated Press
Feb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - ROME -- An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes was jailed near Naples Saturday, hours after he was extrad...
Fossett declared dead

Feb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - Missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett was declared legally dead Friday by a Chicago court five months after the airplane he was flying went missing over Nevada, U...
Continental talks included American

Feb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - HOUSTON -- Continental Airlines Inc., already in consolidation talks with United Airlines, also has had discussions with American Airlines, according to a report. Contin...
FEMA admits trailers toxic

Associated Press
Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS -- After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of rou...
U.S. to try to down an ailing spy satellite with single missile

Associated Press
Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- One shot. That's all the military hopes it will take to bring down a dying, bus-sized U.S. spy satellite loaded with toxic fuel and on a collision course w...
U.S. now looks to cut cargo ship emissions

By Rita Beamish Associated Press
Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Bush administration is pressuring the worldwide shipping industry to reduce diesel pollution from huge cargo carriers entering U.S. seaports, but ...

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