Articles filed under Illinois
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Lawmakers accuse colleague of 'racial hatred'Jul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Three Republican state representatives accused a Democratic colleague of spreading "racial hatred" during a committee meeting Wednesday and demanded that ...
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Bodies switched at funeral homeJul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - STICKNEY -- A family from suburban Chicago arrived at a funeral home to view their 91-year-old grandmother's body but found another woman's body in the casket instead. T...
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Minooka mayor sentenced in domestic battery caseJul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - MINOOKA -- The mayor of the village of Minooka has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of domestic battery and has been sentenced to one year of court supervision and ...
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Downstate man leads World Series of PokerJul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Does an Illinois man have a shot at winning one of the nation's biggest poker tournaments? You bet. Dennis Phillips of Cottage Hills, near Alton, leads nine finalists in...
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Bloomington library pulls 'soft porn' DVDJul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - BLOOMINGTON -- Bloomington Public Library patrons looking to rent the movie "Shortbus" on DVD won't find it on the shelves. A customer complained the movie was pornograp...
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State says seat belt usage up in IllinoisJul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Fewer people are dying on Illinois roads and more than 90 percent of motorists are wearing seat belts. That's according to state officials who said Tuesda...
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State lawmakers due back at work at CapitolJul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD-- Lawmakers in the Illinois House are headed back to work. They're expected to reconvene Tuesday in Springfield where they will have the chance to reverse so...
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Search is on -- again -- for adventurer Steve FossettJul 13, 2008 11:00 pm - BRIDGEPORT, Calif. -- A 10-member team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers hopes to do what search planes and satellite imagery couldn't -- find Steve Fossett's bo...
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Search continues for missing Chicago Hts. teenJul 13, 2008 11:00 pm - BEVERLY SHORES, Ind. -- Crews have expanded the search for a 14-year-old Illinois boy who vanished while swimming with friends at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. D...
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Macdonald was one of few women in state legislatureJul 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Virginia Macdonald's children knew her as the woman who cooked meals from scratch and helped her daughter shop for a prom dress. Her constituents knew the Arlington Heig...