Articles filed under Illinois
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Trial set for daycare hot sauce caseMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - HARRISBURG -- Authorities in southern Illinois plan a July trial for a daycare worker accused of putting hot sauce on the tongues of children as a way to discipline them...
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Neighbor sued over friend's fire deathMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- The widow of a southwestern Illinois man who died when a bonfire ignited the home where he was sleeping has filed a lawsuit. Bobbie Dexheimer filed the w...
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It may take wheeling and dealing, but Quinn's ethics reforms may passMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Senate Democrats are extending a hand to Gov. Pat Quinn and his push for sweeping changes to political and ethics laws, offering the governor a set of blan...
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Northwestern faculty, students join hunger strikeMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Faculty and students at Northwestern University have started a hunger strike in support of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran. The FreeRoxana campaign began Sunda...
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Downstate fishermen find body of missing manMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - PEKIN -- Two fishermen have found the body of a 41-year-old Pekin man, who had been missing since March. Authorities say the fishermen on Sunday found the body of Jeffre...
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Fundraiser held for Lane Bryant shooting victimMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Friends and family of a woman killed in last year's deadly shooting at a suburban Lane Bryant store are holding a scholarship fundraiser in her honor. Carrie Hudek-Chius...
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Giannoulias defends using college fund to buy SUVMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is defending the decision to use money from a state college savings program to buy a $26,000 government vehicle. Giannoulias told re...
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Records cleared of exonerated ISU slaying suspectMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - BLOOMINGTON -- A central Illinois judge has expunged the court records of a Rockford man whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent a dozen years in prison. A...
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Court rules for Ill. immigrant in ID theft caseMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an undocumented immigrant who uses a phony Social Security number to get work shouldn't be considered an identity thi...
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Sewer fixes popular stimulus cash targetsMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - CARBON HILL -- Sewage from toilets flows in open ditches here, spilling into back yards and even onto the lone baseball diamond where children play after school. The nos...