Articles filed under Illinois
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Supreme Court defends its spending on mealsApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois' auditor general is again rapping the state Supreme Court for costly food tabs on taxpayers' dimes -- with some meals hitting nearly $50 rather t...
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Stebic's truck still in custodyApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - A Will County judge has decided not to return a pickup truck and 24 guns to the husband of missing Plainfield mother Lisa Stebic. Judge Richard Schoenstedt let 42-year-o...
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Illinois lawmaker's laptop stolen from officeApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - ALTON -- A state lawmaker is puzzled about why someone would steal his state-owned laptop from his Alton office and leave other computer equipment behind. Democratic Sta...
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Students no longer admitted to seminaryApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, which has been preparing Episcopal priests for 150 years, has stopped admitting students. The Evanston seminary has told tenured fa...
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Democrats fear divisiveness is working in McCain's favorApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - For battle-weary Democrats, the big news out of Pennsylvania is pretty simple: Their nightmare continues. In the seven weeks between the Texas and Ohio primaries in ear...
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Feds: Illinois insiders tried to have U.S. attorney oustedApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - With federal investigators closing in, Illinois political insiders hoped to avoid prosecution by tapping Bush administration architect Karl Rove to oust U.S. Attorney Pa...
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Don't want that old license plate? Recycle itApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois secretary of state's office is encouraging motorists to drop their old license plates in recycling bins outside all 136 motor vehicle facilit...
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Ebert not able to attend his namesake festivalApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Movie critic Roger Ebert says he'll have to skip this year's Ebertfest film festival after breaking a hip. Ebert wrote on his blog on the Chicago Sun-Times'...
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The challenges that Indiana primary poses for Clinton, ObamaApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - For the first time in memory, presidential politics may lap the Indy 500 as May's hottest event in Indiana. Pennsylvania -- like Texas, Ohio and the two dozen Super Tues...
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Effort under way to recycle license platesApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois secretary of state's office is encouraging motorists to drop their old license plates in recycling bins outside all 136 motor vehicle facilit...