Articles filed under Politics
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Endorsements: 'No' on electing Warrenville fire boardMar 18, 2015 1:00 am - Residents of the Warrenville Fire Protection District will be asked April 7 if district trustees should be elected rather than appointed. Seems like a slam-dunk vote for...
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Would harder to crush pills help curb drug addiction?Mar 18, 2015 1:00 am - Terri Bartlett of McHenry told lawmakers Wednesday her son would have been less likely to go down the path of the drug addiction that killed him if pills were harder to ...
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Trustee candidate says he was 'falsely accused' of marijuana possessionMar 18, 2015 1:00 am - Editor's note: Christopher Russell was found not guilty of all charges in a bench trial in October 2015. A Fox River Grove village board candidate charged with two ...
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Keith Farnham's path from lawmaker to registered sex offenderMar 18, 2015 1:00 am - Former State Rep. Keith Farnham resigned his seat in the Illinois House a year ago Thursday, the day the Elgin Democrat is set to be sentenced in Kane County on federal ...
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Rauner won't say if suburbs, schools will take hit in budget fixMar 18, 2015 1:00 am - Gov. Bruce Rauner today declined to say whether an immediate state spending fix would come at the expense of schools' or suburbs' budgets. Suburban mayors say Rauner and...
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Questions about how Schock handled money lead to resignationMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock's fall was fast and hard even by Washington's unforgiving standards. In his fourth term in Congress at a mere age 33, Schock...
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Antioch to host town hall meeting on ambulance serviceMar 17, 2015 1:00 am - The village of Antioch, along with the First Fire Protection District, will host a town-hall meeting Thursday, March 19, to discuss the referendum question about funding...
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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu emerges with a victoryMar 17, 2015 1:00 am - TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party scored a resounding victory in the country's election, final results showed Wednesday, ...
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Pentagon loses $500 million in weapons in YemenMar 17, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen amid fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at ...
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Foster 'seriously considering' Senate bid vs. KirkMar 17, 2015 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, a Naperville Democrat, says he'll take a good look at running for Senate in 2016 in a possible challenge to U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk. “I am seriously c...