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$12M OK'd for design work on rebuild of NW Indiana prisonJun 26, 2021 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The State Budget Committee has approved spending $12 million for engineering and design work on a planned $400 million rebuild of a deteriorating sta...
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Chicago's Adler Planetarium won't fully reopen until 2022Jun 26, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - While most of Chicago's cultural institutions have reopened their doors, the Adler Planetarium won't do so fully until next year. The planetarium along L...
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Nachusa brings large-scale prairie, bison back to IllinoisJun 26, 2021 7:00 am - FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. (AP) - For a look at how the Prairie State once looked and got its nickname, explore The Nature Conservancy's Nachusa Grasslands, about 164 miles no...
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Gaming board ok's construction of temporary Rockford casinoJun 25, 2021 7:00 am - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Gaming Board has approved the construction of a temporary casino in Rockford. However before the casino opens owner 815 Entertainment...
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Brothers charged in man's shooting in mall parking lotJun 25, 2021 7:00 am - SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Two South Bend brothers face charges in connection with a shooting that injured a man last month at a northern Indiana shopping mall, prosecutor...
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Feds charge man with carjacking, killing Chicago Uber driverJun 25, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Federal charges were filed Friday against a Chicago man in the carjacking and killing of a ride-share driver earlier this year. Edmond Harris, 18, is cha...
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Indiana woman, 82, found stabbed to death in lakeside homeJun 25, 2021 7:00 am - ANGOLA, Ind. (AP) - Police are investigating the slaying of an 82-year-old woman whose stabbing death inside her lakeside home is the first homicide in several years in ...
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Indiana man pleads guilty in 2018 crash that killed girl, 10Jun 25, 2021 7:00 am - KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) - A Kokomo man has pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a 2018 crash that fatally injured a 10-year-old girl who was walking near a roadway. Joshua C...
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Indiana man gets 127 years in woman's 2019 torture-slayingJun 25, 2021 7:00 am - GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to 127 years in prison for his role in the 2019 torture-slaying of a northern Indiana woman whose body was found inside a tr...
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Habitat for Humanity struggles with high construction costsJun 25, 2021 7:00 am - Reeling from massive cutbacks in volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and grappling with high construction costs, Habitat for Humanity leaders would be the first to ...