Articles filed under Illinois
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Impeachment: The House might do it twiceJan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Friday's Illinois House vote marked the first time in the state's more than 190-year history that a governor had been impeached. Soon, Gov. Rod Blagojevich...
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Blago: History-making impeachment no surpriseJan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich surrounded himself Friday with the sick, poor, elderly, disabled and a crying baby, trying to erect a political human shield around hi...
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Probation for teen in fatal DUIJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- A southwestern Illinois man who supplied beer to a friend who became drunk and died in a highway wreck has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years on probation. A ...
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Indiana AG: Keep Ryan in prisonJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - jryan@dailyherald.com In a letter Friday, Indiana's attorney general urged President George Bush not to set former Illinois Gov. George Ryan free from federal prison. "...
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House panel unanimously recommends impeachmentJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois lawmakers will vote today on whether to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich for what a key committee called "a pattern of abuse of power." "I think that the House will...
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Burris denies Blago quid pro quo for Senate seatJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris said Thursday he's never been involved in an improper deal in his two decades in government and didn't strike any agre...
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Shelbyville man is 'skeptical believer'Jan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - SHELBYVILLE -- Brian Hendrian is a deer hunter from Shelbyville and, when he gets a spare moment, a stalker of the supernatural. He's been pursuing things that go bump i...
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Illinois, 41 other states in salmonella outbreakJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - ATLANTA - A nationwide salmonella outbreak that has struck 42 states, including Illinois, has put about one in five of its victims in the hospital, the U.S. Centers for ...
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Downstate thieves target antlersJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - CARLINVILLE -- It's no moose on the loose, but authorities in two southwestern Illinois counties are trying to rein in a spree of brazen antler thefts. Investigators in ...
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Deere climbs after Bernstein rating boostJan 07, 2009 10:00 pm - Deere & Co., the world's largest maker of farm equipment, rose to the highest price since October after Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. boosted its rating on the shares to "o...