Articles filed under Illinois
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Chenoa mourns boy killed in go-cart accidentAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - CHENOA -- School and church officials in the central Illinois city of Chenoa plan to make counselors available for those mourning an 8-year-old boy who died in a head-on...
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UAW holds strike vote at Mitsubishi's downstate plantAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Neither side is talking in the wake of a vote by union workers at the Mitsubishi Motors plant in downstate Normal. Negotiations reportedly continue ahead of the August 2...
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Illinois man killed in plane crashAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - FAIRDEALING, Ky. -- A plane crash in western Kentucky has killed a central Kentucky man and injured his son. The Paducah Sun reports that 80-year-old John Goss died and ...
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Judge: Lawsuit against priest can proceedAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - A St. Clair County judge says a sexual-abuse lawsuit a former altar boy filed against a priest and the Belleville Diocese can proceed if a jury finds the diocese engaged...
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Pedestrian killed in DeKalb freight train accidentAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - DEKALB -- A 24-year-old man is dead after being struck by a freight train as he walked near railroad tracks on DeKalb's west side. Police Corporal Scott Farrell says det...
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Homeless man arrested in Peoria teen's deathAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Police in Peoria say they've arrested a homeless man in the death of an 18-year-old woman whose body was found behind a middle school. Authorities said they charged 21-y...
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Pedestrian killed by freight train ID'dAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities have identified a 24-year-old man struck and killed by a freight train as he walked along railroad tracks on DeKalb's west side. The DeKalb County Coroner's ...
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Hastert now 'senior adviser' to DC lobbying firmAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Dennis Hastert's receptionist still answers his office telephone, "Speaker Hastert." But the former Illinois lawmaker, whose eight-year tenure as Speaker o...
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Alton man pleads guilty in 2007 slayingAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - A Madison County prosecutor says she will seek a 20-year prison sentence for a 20-year-old Alton man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of ...
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Illinois political spat gets uglierAug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - The running feud between Gov. Rod Blagojevich and House Speaker Michael Madigan has gone from public to profane. Their relationship sunk to a possible new ...