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Budget advice to Blagojevich: 'Be straight with us'Feb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Come clean on the budget. Don't start new programs. A week before Gov. Rod Blagojevich delivers his state government spending plan for the next fiscal year, some offic...
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Video: Piping in the sounds of bygone centuriesFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - In the early 1700s in north Germany, Arp Schnitger was the Stradivarius of organ builders. Now, even though Schnitger is long gone, his organs, and replicas inspired by ...
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Legislation in works to revise moment-of-silence lawFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Less than a year after approving a controversial requirement that students in Illinois public schools start the day with "a brief period of silence," legislators are try...
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Friends and family remember teen killed in shootingFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - He was going to go to college. He was going be a role model for other kids from the streets of Cambridge. He was going to show everyone how to work hard and make it look...
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The Farr Side: Turner brings down Grammy houseFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Big wheel keep on turning / Proud Tina keep on burning. Tina Turner rocked the 50th annual Grammy awards like only she can. She and Beyonce gave the night's be...
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Noose put on door of youth counselor's officeFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - A black man said the discovery of a noose on his office door "just hit me between the eyes." A clothesline noose was found last week on the door of Mark Montgomery...
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Obama gives a lecture to GM auto workersFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - The rap on Barack Obama is that he gives inspirational speeches filled with lofty rhetoric about the better angles of our nature and the need for hope and change, but he...
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Big Phish: Scam may have cost city $76,000Feb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - The City of Knoxville has been the victim of an e-mail account scam, to the tune of $76,000. On Feb. 4, during an executive session of the Knoxville City Council, ...
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Uno's Westminster win may prompt a 'run' on beaglesFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Uno won one for the underdog. For the first time in Westminster Kennel Club dog show history, a beagle took top honors Tuesday, beating out more likely favorites i...
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Boston-area events mark Black History MonthFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - From Crispus Attucks to Phyllis Wheatley, from Frederick Douglass to W.E.B. DuBois, many great African-American activists have lived in Massachusetts. Over the last four...