Articles filed under Region
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Ryan's new home isn't the RitzNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - George Ryan's new home ain't the Ritz. The federal prison camp at Oxford, Wis., where the 73-year-old former governor is due to check in Wednesday starts its workday at ...
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Judge denies trial postponement for mother charged in daughter's deathNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - PEKIN -- A judge has ruled that a former Morton pathologist accused of suffocating her 3-year-old autistic daughter with a garbage bag will go to trial next month. Karen...
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Middle schooler is given detention for hugging 2 friends at schoolNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - MASCOUTAH -- Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of...
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Leaders report slow progress in talks on construction, transitNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- State officials say they're off to a good start as they take advantage of the latest reprieve from a mass transit crisis. Governor Rod Blagojevich met wit...
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Defense opens case in Liberty City 7 terrorism trialNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - MIAMI -- The leader of a group of men on trial for allegedly plotting to topple Chicago's Sears Tower took the witness stand in his own defense Tuesday, describing his f...
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Look to Iran for clues on how to address the crisis in PakistanNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - JERUSALEM -- As we struggle to make sense of the political crisis in Pakistan, it's useful to think back nearly 30 years to the protests that toppled the Shah of Iran an...
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Girl gets detentions for hugsNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - MASCOUTAH, Ill. -- Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displ...
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Two students charged with cookie assaultNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Two students at Southern Illinois University in this St. Louis suburb kidnapped, paddled and burned a young man with freshly baked cookies after a ...
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Ryan vows to prove innocence as he serves prison termNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - OXFORD, Wis. -- Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan slipped through a back gate at a rural federal prison today, avoiding any fanfare as he began serving a 6 1/2-year corr...
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New warrant executed in search for missing Bolingbrook womanNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Investigators executed a new search warrant Tuesday night at the home of a Bolingbrook police sergeant whose wife has disappeared, authorities said. Will County state's ...