Articles filed under Illinois
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Blaine's next stunt today on live 'Oprah'Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - He spent 44 days suspended from a glass box by the River Thames in London. He was buried alive for a week in a see-through coffin in New York City. Magician David Blain...
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Counterfeit sneakers seized from Chicago-area storage unitApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Suburban Chicago police officers say they're investigating a counterfeit ring after they discovered 15,000 pairs of fake Nike sneakers in a storage unit last week. The s...
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Media take R. Kelly appeal to Illinois Supreme CourtApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago-area media outlets have taken their fight to gain greater access to the pretrial proceedings in the R. Kelly child pornography case to the Illinois Supreme Court...
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Senate rejects income tax constitutional amendmentApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- State lawmakers have again shot down an effort to let voters decide if Illinois' income tax structure should be reworked. The Senate rejected a proposed c...
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Alleged accomplices charged in 14-year-old boy's deathApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - OREGON -- Authorities say an adult and two teens face murder charges in connection with a break-in during which a houseguest fatally shot a 14-year-old intruder in self-...
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Paul Vallas looking at gubernatorial raceApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Former Chicago Schools CEO Paul Vallas says he is frustrated about opportunities Gov. Rod Blagojevich has missed, and is open to running again for governor. Vallas was i...
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Newspaper carrier finds woman pinned by dead husbandApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- Bruce Pitts had a feeling something was wrong when the newspapers began piling up in the roadside tube outside the southern Illinois home of Fred and Blanch...
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State lawmakers consider allowing bets on horses over the InternetApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A man paces in the dining room at Arlington Park, nursing a beverage while staring at the lineup of horses on the video screen as race time approaches. In...
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Second witness refers to hint of Fitzgerald ousterApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Keep my name out of it. That, in essence, says government witness Elie Maloof, is what Antoin "Tony" Rezko told him after Maloof was subpoenaed in a federal probe that l...
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FEMA declines plea for disaster helpApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - There'll be no federal help for victims of last month's flooding in 15 southern Illinois counties. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has turned down the state's re...