Articles filed under Illinois
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Police: 3 fatally shot at Bloomington apartment buildingJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - Bloomington, Illinois police is reporting three people are dead and a fourth was wounded in a shooting at an apartment building in the city. Blo...
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Illinois to fund Medicaid preventative dental servicesJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois' Medicaid program will soon provide preventative dental care for almost half a million low-income residents. Gov. Bruce Rauner recently...
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Search continues for 2 after southern Illinois jail escapeJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - CARMI, Ill. (AP) - Authorities have been continuing to search for two men who they say escaped from a southeastern Illinois county jail over the weekend with a third man...
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Correction: Skydiver Death-Illinois storyJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) - In a story June 16 about a fatal skydiving accident, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the skydiver's parachute apparently failed to ope...
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U of I curator describes thefts of rare bookJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - A curator of rare law books at the University of Illinois College of Law has described how a thief around 1980 pillaged book collections nationwid...
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Ex-inspector to review Illinois House amid harassment claimsJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A former state executive inspector general will investigate the Illinois House of Representatives after several sexual harassment scandals. Hous...
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Mother of man fatally shot by central Illinois police suesJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A mother whose son was fatally shot by police in central Illinois is suing the city of Peoria and several officers in the shooting last September. Th...
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Cleanup of massive central Illinois rock slide beginsJun 18, 2018 7:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A cleanup of a massive rock slide in central Illinois' Peoria County has begun. Excavation equipment rumbled last week along Kickapoo Creek Road to s...
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Rauner names curator for newly remodeled governor's mansionJun 17, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The superintendent of Illinois historic sites including the Old State Capitol and Lincoln Tomb has been tapped to serve as curator of the newly ...
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Chicago is in for a dangerously hot dayJun 17, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago is in for a dangerously hot day. The Chicago Tribune reports that the temperatures will be well north of the 90-degree mark on Sun...