Articles filed under Illinois
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Blagojevich attorney: Wiretaps were illegalDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The lawyer for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says federal investigators illegally monitored his client's conversations. Attorney Ed Genson told the Ho...
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Group hopes to buy house where Lincoln stayedDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - ANNA -- A group in Union County is trying to buy and preserve a home Abraham Lincoln stayed in when he came to the area in 1858 to debate Stephen Douglas. The house on M...
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Lawyer: Governor was all talk, no actionDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich is a jabbermouth who talked big but never actually did anything, so there's no grounds to remove him from office, his attorney told la...
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Pharmacists score win on 'morning-after' pill ruleDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - The Illinois Supreme Court has dealt a blow to a rule requiring pharmacies to dispense emergency contraception. Lower courts had dismissed claims from pharmacists who ob...
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Father, son died of smoke inhalationDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - GALESBURG -- Officials in central Illinois say a father and his young son died of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning when their apartment was engulfed in fla...
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State high court refuses to hear motion declaring Blagojevich unfitDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she's disappointed the Illinois Supreme Court has refused to hear her challenge to Gov. Rod Blagojevich's fitness to se...
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New Illinois tollway chief quitsDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - The new Illinois Tollway chief is out after less than a month on the job. Jeffrey Dailey's resignation on Wednesday comes at a tumultuous time in state government follow...
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41 years given in kidnapping, murderDec 16, 2008 10:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- A judge says a Missourian accused of kidnapping and fatally beating a southern Illinois man whose body was found last year on a vacant Missouri lot shoul...
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Police investigate threat found at WIUDec 16, 2008 10:00 pm - MACOMB -- Western Illinois University police are investigating a threatening note found in the school's library. It's the second such threat at the university this year....
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Central Illinois house fire kills 2Dec 16, 2008 10:00 pm - GALESBURG - A fire that swept through a central Illinois home has killed two people. Galesburg Fire Chief John Cratty says the Tuesday morning fire killed a parent and a...