Articles filed under Illinois
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NIU to move temporary memorial to shooting victimsSep 28, 2008 11:00 pm - DEKALB -- Northern Illinois University has decided to move a temporary memorial to students killed in a February campus shooting to make it more accessible for those wan...
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Authorities: 61-year-old woman in prostitution ringSep 27, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Court documents show a 61-year-old woman from a small central Illinois village played a key role in an alleged multistate prostitution ring. Letha Deanna D...
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Oak Lawn middle school student has with meningitisSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - School officials in Oak Lawn say a middle school student has been hospitalized with bacterial meningitis. Superintendent Kathleen McCord of Oak Lawn-Homewood School Dis...
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Police seize $15 mil of cocaine in Chicago suburbsSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities say they seized cocaine worth more than $15 million in a joint push this week by police in the Chicago suburbs of Hickory Hills and Justice. They said Friday...
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Two troopers wounded in shootout identifiedSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - CARBONDALE -- Illinois State Police have released the names of two troopers wounded in a southern Illinois shootout that killed a suspect. Brian Dickmann, who has been w...
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Ill. diocese to appeal priest-abuse judgmentSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - BELLEVILLE -- The bishop of Belleville says the diocese will appeal a jury award of $5 million to a former altar boy who was sexually abused by a priest. Bishop Edward B...
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Arrests made in slaying of man in RockfordSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - ROCKFORD -- Police in Rockford have arrested two men in the slaying of a man who was shot several times and his body dumped in a field and set on fire. Police say they'v...
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FBI returns to Lane Bryant where 5 people shot to deathSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - FBI investigators are back looking for more clues at the Tinley Park Lane Bryant store where five people were shot to death in February. The FBI won't comment, but Tinle...
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U.S. Senate passes bill to help clean up Great LakesSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - The U.S. Senate has passed the Great Lakes Legacy Act, which would continue a program to reduce contaminated sediments in the lakes. It passed Thursday by a voice vote. ...
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Tollway chief's move adds to questions about strength of ethics lawSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - In Gov. Rod Blagojevich's first term, the Chicago Democrat declared the corrupt revolving door "closed." The governor pushed for and signed a law in 2003 that banned sta...