Articles filed under Illinois
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Consolidated workers in New England approve 3-year contractsAug 10, 2018 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Two unions representing about 1,000 Consolidated Communications workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have approved three-year contracts, th...
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Kansas man indicted in shooting of southern Illinois officerAug 10, 2018 7:00 am - MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) - A Kansas man has been indicted on charges that he fired the shots that wounded a southern Illinois police officer during a chase two years ago. ...
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Tax dollars off-limits for sex-harassment settlementsAug 10, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Using tax dollars to settle sexual harassment claims is illegal under a law Gov. Bruce Rauner signed. Rauner acted Friday on the plan by Republi...
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Work could start in spring on Black Hawk statue repairsAug 09, 2018 7:00 am - OREGON, Ill. (AP) - Organizers say repair work could begin next spring on the century-old Black Hawk statue in northern Illinois as they are less than $90,000 short of t...
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Labor Department monitoring Illinois State Fair ride safetyAug 09, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois officials will make routine inspections of all amusement rides at the Illinois State Fair . The Illinois Department of Labor reported W...
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Body pulled from river confirmed as that of missing boy, 2Aug 08, 2018 7:00 am - MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) - Authorities have confirmed the body of a child recovered the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa is that of a child who fell into the water upstream...
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Joliet teacher charged with murder in beating death of wifeAug 08, 2018 7:00 am - JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois teacher is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, also a teacher. Authorities say Michael Kazecki beat to dea...
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No sentencing delay in Southern Illinois student's deathAug 08, 2018 7:00 am - MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) - A judge says he intends to go ahead with next week's sentencing of a man convicted in the 2014 death of a Southern Illinois University student e...
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Ivanka Trump tours Illinois college's welder training centerAug 08, 2018 7:00 am - GODFREY, Ill. (AP) - Ivanka Trump toured the welding facility at a southwestern Illinois community college as she promoted the importance of continued worker training. T...
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Long-serving jail inmate finally sentenced to prisonAug 08, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A man who has been held in a central Illinois jail since his arrest six years ago in the death of a Springfield man has been sentenced to 85 yea...