Articles filed under Illinois
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Union sues governor to block prison closureSep 16, 2008 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- The union that represents the state's prison workers is suing the governor to stop his plan to close a central Illinois lockup. In the lawsuit filed Wednesd...
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Test results a mixed bag again in 2008Sep 16, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois grade school students generally performed better on statewide achievement tests this spring than they did last year, but their high school counte...
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Threatened trees found at mine siteSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - BANNER -- Opponents of a proposed strip mine near the central Illinois community of Banner say the recent discovery of a threatened plant species on the property should ...
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Watchdog group criticizes parole boardSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A prison watchdog group is criticizing the Illinois Prisoner Review Board as being too stingy in granting parole requests from the state's longest-s...
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German firm to revive FutureGen projectSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - E.ON AG, Germany's biggest power utility, and partners plan to revive a project to build a coal-fired generator that doesn't emit greenhouse gases after the U.S. preside...
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Budget crisis means pay cut for some state workersSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Nearly 4,000 Illinois government employees will lose four days of pay because of state budget cuts, Secretary of State Jesse White announced Monday. Facin...
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Bill to allow widow to stay in U.S. advancesSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House has advanced a special measure to allow an illegal immigrant who cared for her paralyzed husband for 14 years before his death to stay in th...
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Peoria woman swept into storm drainSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- She has bruised legs and a hairline fracture in one foot, but 20-year-old Raeann Hamilton of Peoria knows her storm drain ordeal could have had a much worse en...
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Man holding 5 hostages surrenders to policeSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A police standoff has ended peacefully in Springfield after a man allegedly holding several relatives hostage surrendered to authorities. The suspect repo...
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Jet makes emergency landing in IndianaSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - A Southwest Airlines jet carrying more than 100 passengers made an emergency landing at the South Bend Regional Airport after the crew smelled smoke in the cockpit. Airp...