Articles filed under Illinois
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Waukegan man gets prison sentence for price-tag switchingSep 25, 2009 11:00 pm - A 50-year-old Waukegan man has been given 20-to-60 months in a Nebraska prison for switching price tags at an outdoors goods store in Sidney. Algis Levisauskas pleaded g...
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Sheriff: Tips coming in on Ill. family slayingSep 25, 2009 11:00 pm - LINCOLN -- Authorities would not say Friday if they were any closer to solving the slayings of five members of a central Illinois family, but a homicide expert said it's...
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Sheriff: Family killed by 'blunt force trauma'Sep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - LINCOLN -- All five family members slain in their central Illinois home were killed by "blunt force trauma," a sheriff said Thursday, though he declined to provide other...
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Bond at $500,000 for 3 charged with dogfightingSep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Bond has been set at $500,000 each for three men accused of running a dogfighting ring out of a suburban Chicago home that also served as a day care center. All three me...
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Tribune exec defends bonus plan in Ch. 11 hearingSep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - WILMINGTON, Del. -- The chief financial officer for the Tribune Co. is defending proposed bonuses of up to $70 million for the company's top managers. Chandler Bigelow I...
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High court OKs 'Jews only' inheritanceSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a Jewish husband and wife were within their rights to disinherit any grandchildren who married outside the faith...
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Sheriff: Slain family members were not shotSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - LINCOLN -- A sheriff said Wednesday that autopsies on five members of a family found slain in their central Illinois home revealed that none of the victims had been shot...
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Jury finds Sheley guilty in assault caseSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - GALESBURG -- Jurors have found accused spree killer Nicholas Sheley guilty in connection with an assault on Knox County Jail employees. After four hours of deliberations...
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August home sales in suburbs show promiseSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Realtors around the suburbs were optimistic with higher home sales boosted by first-time buyers, the stimulus credit and favorable mortgage rates during August. But thos...
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Rules address dental sedation risk for patientsSep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Proposed rules prompted by the deaths of two Illinois dental patients would increase the training that's required for dentists and their staffs. The changes are meant to...