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Campus Shooting: If you're going to off yourself, do it and leave everyone else out of itFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - My phone let out a short beep - a text message. "Bet it's Mom," I thought as I picked it up from my desk at the Ledger. She's become a texting queen in the past year, ...
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Video: Crew 64, where are you?Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - When Frank Sinatra first sang "Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars," he wasn't speaking literally. But when Jim Secosky of Manchester tells you what...
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Caregiver Medicaid payments proposedFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Even though he just formally unveiled the Family Member Caregiver Initiative, state Sen. David Koehler, D-Peoria, says people have been responding to the proposed law, w...
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StateLine: Clean rivers - and clean dishes - with Mass. phosphorous ban?Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - After a decade-long fight between environmentalists and soap manufacturers, the state is poised to ban dish detergents containing phosphorous, a chemical that has contri...
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Campus Shooting: NIU shooter's father won't talk about massacreFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - The Polk County Sheriff's Office was contacted by the DeKalb Police Department in Illinois about 2:30 a.m. today asking for help in speaking with the father of the gunma...
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Strip club dominates commission discussionFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Two weeks after passing a county ordinance strictly regulating cabarets, or strip clubs, discussions about other ways to deter such businesses from coming to Jasper Coun...
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Photo of young Lizzie Borden surfacesFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - A long-buried photograph of Lizzie Borden at 8 or 9-years-old has been found, making this one of the most significant Borden discoveries in some time. The sepia ph...
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This Week in WeirdFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Dog saves family from fire CARTHAGE, Mo. -- A family of four escaped from a fire in their mobile home Thursday thanks to their dog Mojoe. Brenda Kar...
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CNN correspondent follows dream in often-perilous worldFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Even as a sophomore in high school, Aneesh Raman seemed destined for big things. By the age of 15, he had already begun dabbling in broadcasting. "I get such a rus...
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More tests needed to determine baby's cause of deathFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Additional testing will have to be done to determine what caused the Tuesday death of a 5-month-old South Peoria infant that authorities deem suspicious. Peoria County...