Articles filed under Illinois
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Yingling bill to target use of ethylene oxideSep 09, 2019 1:00 am - State Rep. Sam Yingling plans to introduce legislation banning the use of the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide as a sterilizer and significantly capping its use in manu...
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EXCHANGE: As shootings increase, churches bolster securitySep 08, 2019 7:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - When it comes to safety, Minier Christian Church has decided not to turn the other cheek. Church leaders and members of the congregation recently fin...
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EXCHANGE: Efforts to make Urbana-Champaign ag tech centerSep 08, 2019 7:00 am - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Keeping startup companies in town, touting national expertise in agricultural technology and "med tech," and offering living costs and amenities t...
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AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDTSep 08, 2019 7:00 am - A Purdue bankruptcy would make opioids cases even messier State and local governments have sought billions of dollars from Purdue Pharma as a way to hold the company and...
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Officials: Fewer sites available for disabled hunters' eventSep 08, 2019 7:00 am - LOVES PARK, Ill. (AP) - State officials say fewer sites are available for a turkey and deer hunting event for hunters with disabilities because of improvement work at a ...
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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...