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Father sentenced for binding kids outside WalmartJun 19, 2013 4:41 pm - LAWRENCE, Kan. — A Northlake man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Walmart parking lot in e...
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Ind. official: Lake flake material made at plantJun 19, 2013 6:00 am - PORTER, Ind. — Indiana officials say a substance found floating on Lake Michigan that led to beach closures is made at a nearby plant shipped out on barges. Indiana Depa...
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Indiana agency renews fight over gay youth group platesJun 18, 2013 5:57 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles extended its battle this week over specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth, order...
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Hoffa mystery still fascinates after 4 decadesJun 18, 2013 8:53 am - OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The latest possible resting place of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being ...
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One of Indiana's most dangerous convicts may be innocentJun 15, 2013 9:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS — Sarah Jo Pender spends about 22 hours of most days in a solitary 7-by-11-foot cell. Inmate No. 953968, sentenced to 110 years for double murder, is consid...
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NW Ind. road closed by fallen power towers reopensJun 14, 2013 10:22 am - LOWELL, Ind. — A state highway has reopened in northwestern Indiana after being closed as utility crews dealt with three large power line towers wrecked by Wednesday nig...
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3 charged with hacking into Purdue profs’ accountsJun 14, 2013 8:46 am - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Authorities have charged three men with illegally logging into their Purdue University professors’ computer accounts and changing their own grades...
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Rockford AirFest canceled because of budget cutsJun 13, 2013 3:43 pm - ROCKFORD — Federal budget cuts have forced the cancellation of the Rockford AirFest airshow on Labor Day weekend. The across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration...
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Defense wants to know how government gathered evidence in terror caseJun 13, 2013 8:03 am - Prosecutors haven’t denied that an expanded U.S. phone and Internet surveillance program triggered an investigation that led to terrorism charges against a West suburban...
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Hitchhiking kitten finds home with Oswego familyJun 13, 2013 8:02 am - Kane County animal control authorities report today that a kitten that survived a 300-mile journey inside a semitrailer’s air cleaner from Wisconsin has been adopted by ...