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Indiana woman gets 7 years for hit-and-run that killed 2Mar 07, 2020 6:00 am - LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - A northwestern Indiana woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a hit-and-run crash that killed two people who had met a tow truck dr...
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Historic Chicago hotel rehabbed for low-income housingMar 07, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Officials from Chicago and the NHP Foundation celebrated the opening of a renovated historic housing unit offering affordable single-room occupancy. Mayo...
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Conservation officer's widow recalls husband's heroic endMar 07, 2020 6:00 am - ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - Medals stacked in boxes and an American flag carefully folded in a wooden box sit behind Belinda Bollman next to an end table with wedding and fami...
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Pence walks fine line on coronavirus responseMar 07, 2020 6:00 am - CAMP MURRAY, Wash. (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence decided silence was the way to go. Soon after President Donald Trump asked him to lead the U.S. government's response...
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Blues announcer became dilapidated. Now it's a showpiece.Mar 07, 2020 6:00 am - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Tom Calhoun was surprised when he showed up for a ribbon-cutting at his childhood home in Belleville and discovered that the red brick had been p...
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In Chicago, Bernie Sanders jabs Biden, tells backers to 'stop complaining and get involved'Mar 07, 2020 12:00 am - Bernie Sanders jabbed at Joe Biden and urged an adoring youthful crowd at Grant Park on Saturday to get out the vote for him in the March 17 Illinois primary, advising t...
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WWII POW from Naperville told school children his war storiesMar 07, 2020 12:00 am - Having fought through North Africa, Sicily and Italy during World War II, Arnie Massier came home to Naperville, but he never forgot the moment a German soldier got the ...
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The Latest: Sen. Dick Durbin, Chicago mayor endorse BidenMar 06, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on the 2020 election (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot are backing Joe Biden for the D...
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Man sentenced to life for killing his adoptive parentsMar 06, 2020 6:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A man who confessed to fatally stabbing his parents and dumping their bodies in a central Illinois river was sentenced Friday to life in prison. Jos...
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Priest convicted of child porn dies in Illinois prisonMar 06, 2020 6:00 am - PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A former southern Illinois priest sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty last year to distributing child pornography and proc...