Articles filed under Illinois
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Middle schooler is given detention for hugging 2 friends at schoolNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - MASCOUTAH -- Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of...
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Leaders report slow progress in talks on construction, transitNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- State officials say they're off to a good start as they take advantage of the latest reprieve from a mass transit crisis. Governor Rod Blagojevich met wit...
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Look to Iran for clues on how to address the crisis in PakistanNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - JERUSALEM -- As we struggle to make sense of the political crisis in Pakistan, it's useful to think back nearly 30 years to the protests that toppled the Shah of Iran an...
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Girl gets detentions for hugsNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - MASCOUTAH, Ill. -- Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displ...
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Two students charged with cookie assaultNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Two students at Southern Illinois University in this St. Louis suburb kidnapped, paddled and burned a young man with freshly baked cookies after a ...
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Ryan vows to prove innocence as he serves prison termNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - OXFORD, Wis. -- Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan slipped through a back gate at a rural federal prison today, avoiding any fanfare as he began serving a 6 1/2-year corr...
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New warrant executed in search for missing Bolingbrook womanNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Investigators executed a new search warrant Tuesday night at the home of a Bolingbrook police sergeant whose wife has disappeared, authorities said. Will County state's ...
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VA says more Marion surgeons placed on leave; Durbin pledges legislationNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Sen. Dick Durbin pledged Tuesday to push federal legislation to reform hiring practices at Veterans Affairs hospitals nationwide after the VA revealed three more doctors...
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Advice to Ryan: You can't change things nowNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - If Ambrosio Medrano has any piece of advice for George Ryan, it's this: Don't "dwell on what's happened. A person can become pretty bitter," said the former Chicago alde...
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George Ryan, convicted of graft, leaves a legacy of distrustNov 05, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- George Ryan never was an angel. Illinois voters knew when they elected him governor that he was an old-school politician who rewarded friends and punished...