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Grants available for field trips to Lincoln museumAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Grants to help schools with large numbers of low-income students take field trips to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum are now available. The Winnick...
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Vilsack: USDA working to ID tainted turkey sourceAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the government hopes to find the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to ground turkey "very, very" soon. Vilsack t...
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Judge tosses suit challenging FEMA flood mappingAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A federal judge has thrown out as moot a lawsuit three southwestern Illinois counties filed to block the Federal Emergency Management Agency from ...
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Man gives up stomach to avoid cancerAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - EDWARDS, Ill. — At 6 feet 4 inches tall and 250 pounds, Malcolm Linstead was built like a brick wall: Strong. Tall. Able to overcome just about anything. But by the time...
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Police: 3 girls kidnapped, sexually assaultedAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Milwaukee police are looking for the man who kidnapped three young girls and sexually assaulted them. Court documents say the man forced the girls, ages 11 and 13, into ...
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Man gets 12 years in killing outside high schoolAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - BELLEVILLE — A man who admits killing a teenager in a gang-related fight outside a basketball game at a southwestern Illinois high school in 2009 has been sentenced to 1...
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Work continues on historic Sycamore railroad depotAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - SYCAMORE — Work is scheduled to be complete this fall on a historic 130-year-old railroad depot in the northern Illinois city of Sycamore. The Daily Chronicle in DeKalb ...
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August is breast-feeding month in IllinoisAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — August is Breast-feeding Promotion Month in Illinois. Gov. Pat Quinn has designated the month to increase public awareness about how some mothers feed thei...
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Law requires campus registries for sex offendersAug 02, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A new state law will require convicted sex offenders to register with campus police if they enroll or work at a college or university. State Sen. Ed Malone...
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3 plead not guilty in fatal Galesburg shootingAug 01, 2011 11:00 pm - GALESBURG — Three men have pleaded not guilty to charges related to a fatal shooting in a crowded park in the western Illinois city of Galesburg. Eighteen-year-old Micha...