Articles filed under Illinois
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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...
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Rep. Bean's campaign cash from PACs hard to matchSep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Melissa Bean has been in Congress just under four years, but the suburban 8th District Democrat has no shortage of cash for her re-election bid, thanks to ...
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Sauerberg gets ally in blasting Durbin for earmarksSep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A chief opponent of so-called pork barrel spending, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, came to candidate Steve Sauerberg's aid Friday and blasted Sen. Dick Durbin on e...
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Court rules wrongful death does not cover in vitro embryosSep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - A state court ruled Friday that a couple cannot sue for wrongful death for a fertility clinic's destruction of their embryos. The ruling by an Illinois appellate court o...
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Woman accused of molesting friend's daughterSep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities say a 30-year-old woman from the Harvey was being held in lieu of $250,000 bond after being accused of having a sexual encounter with a friend's teenage dau...