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Good News Sunday: Des Plaines actor’s ‘full circle moment’ comes with lead role in Porchlight’s ‘Anything Goes’Jan 14, 2024 6:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: “Anything Goes,” Cole Porter’s 1934 tuner...
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Terrorism not suspected in Texas hotel explosionJan 14, 2024 6:00 am - An explosion at the Sandman Signature hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, last week, injured 21 people, including one critically, as doors were blown out and parts of the wall we...
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Majority of donated clothes are sold to recyclers: What happens to them?Jan 14, 2024 5:30 am - We go behind the scenes at Chicago Textile Recycling in Carol Stream to learn where unwanted thrift-store clothing ends up
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Counting the days: Families of Hamas hostages prepare to mark loved ones’ 100th day in captivityJan 13, 2024 11:35 pm - LONDON (AP) — It has become a daily ritual. Every morning, before she’s even out of her pajamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of masking tape off the roll, grabs a...
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As Israel-Hamas war reaches 100-day mark, here's the conflict by numbersJan 13, 2024 11:33 pm - JERUSALEM (AP) — Now 100 days old, the latest Israel-Hamas war is by far the longest, bloodiest, and most destructive conflict between the bitter enemies. The fighting e...
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Two Navy SEALs are missing after Thursday night mission off coast of SomaliaJan 13, 2024 11:32 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials. The...
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DeSantis and Haley barnstorm across frigid Iowa in the final days before the Republican caucusesJan 13, 2024 11:30 pm - COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley pushed across ice-cold Iowa Saturday to find voters open to an alternative to former President Donald Trump with ...
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A global day of protests draws thousands in Washington and other cities in pro-Palestinian marchesJan 13, 2024 11:29 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators converged opposite the White House on Saturday to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza, while children joined a...
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A weekend of ferocious winter weather could see low-temperature records set in the US heartlandJan 13, 2024 11:25 pm - O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Icy winter weather blanketed the U.S. on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread col...
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Algonquin Police Department starts snowman competition, encourages ‘community togetherness’
Jan 13, 2024 5:29 pm - Neighboring police departments and residents build their best snowmen in friendly competition An Algonquin Police Department Facebook post challenging neighboring towns ...