Articles filed under Illinois
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Organizations encourage limiting nurse-patient ratio at hospitalsSep 08, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Advocates for a law that would limit the number of patients each hospital nurse is allowed to care for at one time are touting a new national survey that s...
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EXGHANGE: Man quits corporate job to flip food truck burgersSep 07, 2019 7:00 am - EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Ask Matt Foley about his food-truck business and prepare to get an earful. The 39-year-old Edwardsville man will explain why he quit his corpor...
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EXCHANGE: Restoring Victorian home is man's labor of loveSep 07, 2019 7:00 am - QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - Before he bought the two-story Victorian-era home in Quincy, Illinois, Paul Kevin Geers would sit on the curb across the street and stare at what he ...
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Gaming board adopts new ethics rules for casino licensesSep 07, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Gaming Board announced Friday that it had adopted new rules it said will strengthen existing ethical safeguards and require more people to fil...
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Inmate guilty of trying to scam prison officials sentencedSep 06, 2019 7:00 am - BENTON, Ill. (AP) - An inmate at the Marion Federal Penitentiary in southern Illinois will serve an additional 18 years in prison for filing fake bankruptcy petitions ag...
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Public meetings being held for bridge replacement projectSep 06, 2019 7:00 am - PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky transportation officials say two meetings will be held this month about the replacement of the U.S. 51 Ohio River bridge between the western...
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Scientists to use Minecraft to help students study spaceSep 06, 2019 7:00 am - ORONO, Maine (AP) - A team with researchers in Maine and Illinois is working on a project to use the video game Minecraft to get students interested in science and space...
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Hunting guide who used electronic bird caller pleads guiltySep 06, 2019 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois owner of an outfitter service has pleaded guilty to federal charges that included deploying an electronic bird caller to lure...
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Program to erase old pot charges aids 58 California countiesSep 05, 2019 7:00 am - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Every California county prosecutor can now use new technology to erase or reduce an estimated 220,000 old marijuana convictions after voters br...
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Illinois State enrolls largest freshman class in 33 yearsSep 05, 2019 7:00 am - NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - Illinois State University says this year's freshman class is its largest in 33 years. The university has 3,860 freshmen for the 2019-2020 academic ye...