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Lightning strikes, injures 2 men leaving Clearwater BeachJul 06, 2020 7:00 am - CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Lightning struck two people on Sunday afternoon as a line of storms from the Gulf of Mexico moved onto Clearwater of Beach, police said. Gacek Ar...
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Illinois toddler killed by dog during July 4 partyJul 06, 2020 7:00 am - JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois toddler was attacked and killed by at least one pit bull while in a playpen during a holiday party, police said Monday. The 17-month-old ...
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Muncie woman pleads guilty in death of 3-month-old daughterJul 06, 2020 7:00 am - MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - A central Indiana woman pleaded guilty Monday in the death of her 3-month-old daughter who had broken bones and burns and didn't get medical care. Sa...
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Payroll Protection Program recipients include thousands in IllinoisJul 06, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — The government on Monday identified roughly 650,000 mostly small businesses and nonprofits that received taxpayer money from a federal program that probably...
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Deputy majority leader in state House retiresJul 06, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - State Rep. Arthur Turner, a Chicago Democrat, has retired from the Illinois House. Turner, a deputy majority leader in the House, had served in the 9th Dis...
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7-year-old among 13 killed in weekend shootings in ChicagoJul 05, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - At least 13 people, including a 7-year-old girl at a family party and a teenage boy, were killed in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, police said. ...
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Millikin's new president at home for career's final chaptersJul 05, 2020 7:00 am - DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - Millikin University's new president, James Reynolds, did not grow up planning a career in academia. His original career plans was to be a scientific...
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Indiana council leader wants to give up police armored truckJul 05, 2020 7:00 am - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana police department would give up its ex-military armored truck if the city council president had his way. West Lafayette City Counc...
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Dredging project underway at Indiana park lagoonJul 05, 2020 7:00 am - LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - A lagoon in an Indiana park has been partially drained and now undergoing a dredging project as part of a larger plan to improve the recreation ar...
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13 Illinois 'Bomb Squad' gang members sentenced to prisonJul 05, 2020 7:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Thirteen members of a Peoria street gang known as the 'œBomb Squad'ť have been sentenced to prison terms for a racketeering conspiracy that included ...