Articles filed under Illinois
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House advances budget plans but no agreement yetMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- House and Senate Democrats moved ahead with dueling state budget proposals Wednesday without an agreement but with hopes they could reach one within the n...
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University of Illinois at ... Singapore?May 21, 2008 11:00 pm - The University of Illinois may expand its reach in Asia with a new digital-science research center in Singapore. University trustees meeting Thursday are expected to con...
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Governor has plan to fix bridges and roadsMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday announced a $10.9 billion plan to fix bridges and roads over the next six years, but said lawmakers must do more to addre...
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No agreement yet on state budgetMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- House and Senate Democrats moved ahead with dueling state budget proposals Wednesday without an agreement but with hopes they could reach one within the ...
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Sheriff fires dispatcher, accusing him of snitchingMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - CARROLLTON -- Greene County's sheriff says he has fired a dispatcher for allegedly alerting friends about a planned raid on a weekend drinking party last weekend. Sherif...
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Bus driver ordered to stand trial in firefighter's deathMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - BENTON -- A judge in Franklin County says a Greyhound bus driver should face a trial in the death of a southern Illinois firefighter killed by the bus last summer on Int...
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GOP wants tax holidayMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - House Republicans are calling for a suspension of the Illinois sales tax on gasoline this summer. Lawmakers claim the average family would save up to $60 over a four-mon...
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Peterson online forum shut downMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Friends of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson say administrators of the Web page findstacypeterson.com have shut down the site's online forum. Peterson's friends ...
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Accuser of Gary Dotson diesMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Cathleen Crowell Webb, the woman who accused a man of a rape that never occurred and recanted eight years later, has died of cancer. Webb's husband says the 46-year-old ...
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25,000 bees found in Jerseyville 5th-grade classroomMay 20, 2008 11:00 pm - JERSEYVILLE, Ill. -- About 25,000 bees have swarmed a fifth-grade classroom at Delhi Elementary School in Jerseyville. Principal Michelle Brown tells The (Alton) Telegra...