Articles filed under Illinois
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Ill. Goodwill worker finds $7,500 in donated shoesNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - GLEN CARBON -- A newcomer to the United States apparently had quite a first day working at a Goodwill store in southwestern Illinois. The nonprofit charity says Teodora ...
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Downstate man 3rd in World Series of PokerNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - ALTON -- A 53-year-old trucking account manager from Illinois is more than $4.5 million richer thanks to a monster poker tournament, but winning the top prize just wasn...
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Ill. state trooper facing DUI chargeNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - MOUNT VERNON -- An Illinois State Police trooper is free on bond after being accused of driving drunk last month in southern Illinois. Forty-seven-year-old Lyle Hicks is...
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Bond hearing set in SIU threat caseNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- A former Southern Illinois University student awaiting trial on charges that he threatened a "murderous rampage" is scheduled to appear in court over wh...
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Peoria teen charged with attempted murderNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - PEORIA -- Authorities in Peoria are holding a 19-year-old man on an attempted murder charge in a double shooting that occurred late last month. Police say they arrested ...
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State makes grants for Alzheimer's diseaseNov 09, 2008 10:00 pm - The state of Illinois will make $190,000 in grants to help research, treat and prevent Alzheimer's disease. The money comes from donations Illinois taxpayers made on the...
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Parents pull kids from day care as money tightensNov 08, 2008 10:00 pm - The nation's economic troubles play out one family at a time at the New Horizons Learning Center in Rockford. Some parents have been laid off and must pull their childre...
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Voters push change at White House, but not statehouseNov 08, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Suburban voters turned out in droves to back Barack Obama's message of "change" last week, but on the state front, they sent back to Springfield nearly all...
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Whooping cough outbreak in Rockford areaNov 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Winnebago County has had 38 cases of whooping cough since the end of October, compared to just one case in all of last year. The northern Illinois county's health depart...
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3 corpses found inside Evanston homeNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - EVANSTON _ Authorities say three people found dead today inside a house in suburban Chicago were dead "for some time." Evanston police said Friday that a preliminary inv...