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Indianapolis drug kingpin gets life in federal prisonDec 12, 2019 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge sentenced the leader of a violent Indianapolis-based drug trafficking ring to life in prison Thursday. U.S. District Chief Judge Jane...
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Woman charged with stealing as much as $100,000 from PTODec 12, 2019 6:00 am - ROCKTON, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois woman has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from a school district's Parent Teacher Organization that she belonge...
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Constable: Driver's license renewal offers time for meditations on mortalityDec 12, 2019 4:30 am - Our son Will, a philosophy major who meditates twice daily, urges my wife and me to partake in a 10-day retreat at the Dhamma Pakasa Vipassana Meditation Center in Pecat...
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5 years in prison for first of two in 2018 McHenry Twp. overdose deathDec 12, 2019 12:00 am - A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the heroin-fentanyl overdose death of a McHenry man in September 2018. Kenneth M. Harris of ...
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Anthony Bruno Orchestra performed on WGNDec 12, 2019 12:00 am - The Anthony Bruno Orchestra jingled all the way to WGN-TV's morning news Thursday. The Italian American jazz band, led by Elk Grove High School graduate Bruno, performed...
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Number of parties suing Sterigenics jumps to 73Dec 12, 2019 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The number of parties suing medical supply sterilization company Sterigenics on claims that its ethylene oxide gas emissions caused serious health problems...
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Board OKs closing two charter schoolsDec 11, 2019 10:00 pm - Kiya Cox, getting set to graduate eighth grade next summer after spending her whole life at the same school, was one of almost 20 speakers who emotionally pleaded with t...
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Former high-ranking employee of Dorothy Brown sentenced to 2 years in prison for derailing investigationDec 11, 2019 10:00 pm - A former high-ranking employee of Dorothy Brown was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday after prosecutors said the worker helped derail a federal investigation int...
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New music venue Radius to open in March with Lil Wayne, Alkaline Trio on rosterDec 11, 2019 11:00 am - This week, Nick Karounos, co-owner and operator of Chicago's Concord Music Hall and Prysm Nightclub, announced the March 2020 opening of new music venue Radius at 640 W....
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New Terre Haute VA clinic set to open in summer of 2021Dec 11, 2019 6:00 am - TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - A new $40 million, 46,000-square-foot Veterans Affairs clinic is projected to open during the summer of 2021, officials said Wednesday. The faci...