Articles filed under Illinois
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Reporter Carl Bernstein to lecture at Bradley in AprilMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Investigative reporter and author Carl Bernstein is scheduled next month to deliver a lecture on seeking the truth at Bradley University in Peoria. T...
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Measure would require providers to offer safer painkillersMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois House committee has advanced a measure designed to make it harder to abuse prescription painkillers. The Human Services Committee ap...
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15-year-old boy killed by train in eastern IllinoisMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - TILTON, Ill. (AP) - A 15-year-old boy has been struck and killed by a train in eastern Illinois. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1xeOwgf ) that the V...
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Illinois man drowns while surfing in Puerto Rico, police sayMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Authorities in Puerto Rico say a 35-year-old U.S. tourist has drowned while surfing on the island's west coast. Police say Bryan Wright of I...
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University of Houston suspends fraternity for alleged hazingMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - HOUSTON (AP) - University of Houston officials are promising swift punishment, including expulsion and criminal charges, if allegations of hazing at a fraternity are sup...
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Monsanto to pay $350K to settle more wheat-related lawsuitsMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Monsanto said Wednesday it will pay about $350,000 to settle class action lawsuits brought by farmers in seven states over genetically modified wheat. Th...
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Questions about how Schock handled money lead to resignationMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock's fall was fast and hard even by Washington's unforgiving standards. In his fourth term in Congress at a mere age 33, Schock...
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Democrat: Republicans putting Lynch at 'back of the bus'Mar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - The second-ranking Senate Democrat on Wednesday accused Republicans of putting the president's attorney general nominee "in the back of the bus" by del...
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Rockford men sue city over questionable murder convictionMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - Two men freed after more than a decade in prison on a questionable murder conviction are suing the city of Rockford and several current and former ...
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Johnston City man pleads guilty in son's suffocation deathMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - MARION, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois man has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the suffocation death of his 3-month-old son. Williamson County State's Att...