Articles filed under Illinois
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Quinn won't say if he knew of early releaseDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn isn't saying when he first knew his administration was releasing inmates who'd served just weeks in prison. Quinn on Sunday suspended a program t...
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Most GOP candidates oppose Thomson dealDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Most of the Republicans running for governor oppose selling a little-used new state prison in remote northwestern Illinois to the federal government, a mov...
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Ill. State Police probe deadly hostage standoffDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - PINCKNEYVILLE -- Illinois State Police are investigating circumstances involving a southern Illinois prison inmate taking an employee hostage before the prisoner was sho...
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Report hits state's emergency preparedness following H1N1 messDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois ranks among the bottom 20 states in health emergency response, concludes a new report that says this year's H1N1 outbreak exposed "serious underlying gaps" in t...
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Murphy says he's ready to monitor the governor -- if necessaryDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - State Sen. Matt Murphy tells voters if they elect him lieutenant governor he will keep an eye on the state's chief executive. But if Murphy's favorite - former Illinois ...
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Brother of man charged in 8 slayings is acquittedDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - MORRISON -- The brother of a man suspected of killing eight people in Illinois and Missouri has been acquitted of obstruction of justice and concealing a homicidal death...
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Michigan billboard for missing Illinois womanDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - An advertising billboard is going up in Michigan in another bid to try and find an Illinois mother missing since 2007. The billboard featuring a photo of Lisa Stebic is ...
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Officials: Inmate who took hostage is shot, killedDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - PINCKNEYVILLE -- Illinois prison officials say an inmate who took an employee hostage at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center in southern Illinois has been shot and kil...
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It's official: Gitmo detainees coming to Illinois prisonDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of...
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Illinois man indicted in slayings of 5 Calif. womenDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A convicted triple murderer has been indicted in the slayings of five Southern California women in the 1980s and '90s. Andrew Urdiales, who's curre...