Articles filed under Illinois
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Work starting on U of I's supercomputer buildingNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Construction has begun on the $72 million building at the University of Illinois that will house what's expected to be the fastest new supercomputer in the ...
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2 men found dead in Madison Co. homeNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - WILLLIAMSON _ Officials say more than 30 people from agencies, including the St. Louis region's major case squad, are working on the killings of a man and his stepfather...
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State to probe rising road salt pricesNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Attorney General's office is investigating the steep price of road salt in some areas of the state, which has caused some municipalities to c...
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Lockdown eased at Menard Correctional CenterNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois Department of Corrections officials have eased restrictions at the state's largest prison. The 3,500 inmates at Menard Correctional Center near C...
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Man convicted in wife's death sentencedNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - URBANA _ A man convicted of killing his estranged wife and burying her body in the woods has been sentenced to 65 years in prison. Thirty-nine-year-old Robert Arnette wa...
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Commission OKs probe of tollway chief's 'revolving door' waiverNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - The state Ethics Commission will allow Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's staff to review former tollway chief Brian McPartlin's request for a waiver from the "rev...
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Services planned for Durbin's daughterNov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Private funeral services are planned Thursday for the daughter of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who died from complications related to a congenital heart conditio...
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2 years in racial graffiti caseNov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for his role in the spray-painting of racial threats and epithets on an Illinois home...
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Ex-Air Force officer sentenced for child pornNov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS -- A former Air Force senior master sergeant should spent four years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. A federal judge in East St. Louis...
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Vallas' run for office over before it startedNov 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, who narrowly lost a bid for governor in the 2002 Democratic primary, shut the door Sunday to another run for executive office in ...