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Report card: Great Lakes still have big problemsMay 14, 2013 6:06 pm - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasi...
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Boy’s body pulled from Des Plaines RiverMay 14, 2013 6:03 pm - Police in the Western suburbs say they’ve found a young boy’s body in the Des Plaines River. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the boy was found in the water near McCorm...
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Sentence handed down in 1st televised trial in IllinoisMay 14, 2013 4:54 pm - A Kankakee man has received a 78-year prison sentence in a case that was the first Illinois trial to feature live, gavel-to-gavel TV coverage. Kankakee County judge Clar...
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Indiana secretary of state warns of real estate scamMay 13, 2013 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson is warning potential home buyers about a new scam. Lawson says scammers are using authentications from her office...
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Police officer guilty of rights violationsMay 10, 2013 4:06 pm - A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a South suburban police officer of civil rights violations for striking two men with a baton outside a nightclub in 2009. The ju...
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Northwestern giving Napoleon’s brother’s letter to FranceMay 10, 2013 4:04 pm - Special delivery from Northwestern University to France: A letter from Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother. In a news release, the university announced Friday it will hand ove...
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Orthopedics company makes job cuts in N. IndianaMay 10, 2013 7:00 am - WARSAW, Ind. — Orthopedic products maker Zimmer Holdings has cut some jobs from its northern Indiana workforce. The company didn’t specify how many workers were let go, ...
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Both sides in Indiana Camm trial to test DNA on his shirtMay 09, 2013 9:13 am - ROCKPORT, Ind. — Both sides in the third murder trial of a former Indiana state trooper will test DNA on the shirt he wore on the day his wife and two young children wer...
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NIU holds farewell event for departing presidentMay 06, 2013 9:28 pm - DEKALB, Ill — The character of Northern Illinois University President John Peters was praised Monday during a farewell ceremony for the man who led the school when a gun...
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`Very slightly radioactive water' enters Lake MichiganMay 06, 2013 4:00 pm - DETROIT — Seventy-nine gallons of “very slightly radioactive water” from a leaky tank at the troubled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant spilled into Lake Michigan, a Nuclear...