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Owens Corning plant to closeNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Owens Corning told its 145 employees here Tuesday that the plant will close Dec. 21. "It's a bad thing right now, right before Christmas," said Mark Reidenbach, wh...
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Oct. 24: ‘The day the music died in Utica'Nov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Local radio may never be the same, say local musicians and listeners affected by the departure of Jerry "The Doctor" Krause and other radio personalities linked to the p...
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GateHouse News Service New England Budget • Nov. 7, 2007Nov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Here are the top New England regional stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at gatehousenewsservice.com. Please submit stories below no...
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Illini cruise in exhibition finaleNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Another day and another hit suffered by Big Ten Conference basketball, although not at Assembly Hall. Even though Illinois coach Bruce Weber treated Tuesday's fina...
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Edith C. Webster: Former Rockford pastor performs gospel song on BETNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Bishop Neal Roberson, former pastor of Rockford's Victorious Christian Outreach Center, performed his gospel song, "It's On the Way," Sunday on BET's "The Bobby Jones Sh...
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Ethanol project in southwest Rockford on course for 2008Nov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Nearly two years after announcing a $144 million ethanol plant west of Rockford, a Schaumburg developer has yet to break ground on the controversial project. Wight Partn...
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Panicked 911 call sparked police standoffNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - He was guilty only of being hungry at the wrong time and at the wrong place. Panicked that a killer might be loose on the streets of Needham, workers at a downtown pizza...
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Jerry Bonkowski: Gordon knows he has to turn it around at Phoenix trackNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - After 34 races, Jeff Gordon's championship hopes conceivably could come down to just one. Even though the season finale is next week in Homestead, Fla., what Gordo...
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Teen's song pays homage to hometown, wins contestNov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Michael Maloney never thought that at 17 he would have his first hit single on the radio. But by beating out more than 100 contestants from as far away as Maine in the 1...
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Theater review: Talking can't break through these ‘Walls'Nov 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Thomas Gibbons writes compellingly about the bigotry, both covert and overt, that has stained America's commitment to freedom since the nation's birth. He has exa...