Articles filed under Illinois
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Back to blue jeans: Illinois school district scraps uniformsApr 16, 2016 7:00 am - GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) - Students in the southern Illinois town of Granite City will no longer be required to wear uniforms to school. According to the Belleville News-...
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Woman shot by police in Marion hostage standoff sues cityApr 16, 2016 7:00 am - MARION, Ill. (AP) - A woman who was shot by police after being taken hostage is suing the city of Marion and members of its police department and the Williamson County S...
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Prisons chief: Illinois needs rethinking on drug offendersApr 16, 2016 7:00 am - CARTERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - The acting director of the Illinois Department of Corrections says Illinois needs to rethink how it handles drug offenders. Acting agency Direct...
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Appellate court judge dies after battle with cancerApr 16, 2016 1:00 am - Illinois Appellate Court Judge Laura Cha-Yu Liu died Friday after a long battle with breast cancer at age 49. The first Chinese-American woman to be elected judge in Ill...
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East St. Louis man dies after being hit by MetroLink trainApr 15, 2016 7:00 am - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A 56-year-old East St. Louis man who was struck by a MetroLink train last month in southwestern Illinois has died. The Belleville News-Democrat (...
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U of Illinois student committee wants to consider new mascotApr 15, 2016 7:00 am - URBANA, Ill. (AP) - Nine years after the University of Illinois retired Chief Illiniwek a student committee is recommending that the school consider a replacement. The A...
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Judge sentences juvenile shooter in Effingham teen's deathApr 15, 2016 7:00 am - EFFINGHAM, Ill. (AP) - A teenager from Effingham has been sentenced in a 16-year-old girl's shooting death. The Effingham Daily News (http://bit.ly/1quQ9Dv ) reports tha...
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Ex-mayor's son gets 2 life sentences in Metro East killingsApr 15, 2016 7:00 am - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - The 26-year-old son of a former Alorton mayor has been sentenced to consecutive life sentences for killing two men in the nearby village of Washi...
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Standing Rock Sioux sets up camp to protest oil pipelineApr 15, 2016 7:00 am - CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) - The Standing Rock Sioux has set up a camp in North Dakota to protest a planned pipeline to carry crude from the Bakken oil fields to Illinois. T...
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Judge: Hastert support letters must be public to be considered in sentencingApr 15, 2016 1:00 am - Letters in support of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert cite his ill health and public service in asking for leniency when he's sentenced April 27 on banking char...