Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois man gets 7 years in drunken driving deathJul 14, 2009 11:00 pm - A 27-year-old Bridgeview man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a vehicle wreck that left a 10-year-old Morris girl dead in 2006. Will County prosecutor J...
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Politics, family intertwined for women politiciansJul 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a rising star in the Democratic Party, resisted interest reaching all the way to the White House for her to run for higher office...
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9-year-old girl among those killed in Amtrak crashJul 14, 2009 11:00 pm - OTTAWA -- A 9-year-old Indiana girl and her grandparents were killed when an Amtrak train struck a vehicle in north-central Illinois. LaSalle County Coroner Jodeen Berna...
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Legislators nearing vote on makeshift budgetJul 14, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois legislative leaders hope to vote Wednesday on a new state budget. The leaders are supposed to meet with Gov. Pat Quinn in an attempt to complete ...
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Downstate man admits causing toddler's deathJul 14, 2009 11:00 pm - MARION -- Prosecutors in southern Illinois' Williamson County say they won't seek more than 20 years in prison for a man who admits causing the death of his girlfriend's...
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1 prison escapee returned to cell; 2 on runJul 14, 2009 11:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS -- Three inmates who escaped from Indiana State Prison made their way through hundreds of yards of utility tunnels beneath the Civil War-era structure befor...
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3 dead after Amtrak train hits vehicle in IllinoisJul 13, 2009 11:00 pm - OTTAWA -- Three people have died after their vehicle was struck by a California-bound Amtrak train. LaSalle County Sheriff Tom Templeton said Monday that five people wer...
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Court tosses lawsuit against Deere, says dad negligent in injuring sonJul 13, 2009 11:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a father who accidentally severed the feet of his two-year-old son with a riding lawnmower cannot hold the manufacturer...
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2nd widow settles lawsuit over husband's VA deathJul 13, 2009 11:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS -- The second of two Kentucky widows has settled her federal lawsuit over surgical care they say killed their husbands at an Illinois Veterans Affairs hos...
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Search continues for 2 escaped Indiana inmatesJul 13, 2009 11:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS -- Three inmates who escaped from Indiana State Prison made their way through hundreds of yards of utility tunnels beneath the Civil War-era structure befor...