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Moment of silence now required in schoolsOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Under a law that takes effect immediately, all students in Illinois public schools will have to observe a moment of silence at the beginning of each day. On Thursday, t...
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Animal Services continues to investigate attack on pugOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Pugsly's owners are slowly coping with the 1-year-old pug's death. But it's hard to know how Bruce Lee - the family cat - is taking the news. Pugsly, after all, in...
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Group targets credit offers that prey on hapless studentsOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - College students are easy marks for credit cards, and the companies know it. Enticed with free T-shirts or low introductory annual percentage rates, many college s...
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Developing strategies: Canton, regional officials meet on planning issuesOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - For Canton officials, the time to think regionally is now. Reacting to how the proposed $1.8 billion, 4.5 million square foot mixed-use Westwood Station development see...
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Editorial: Tsongas for CongressOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Neither of the major party candidates for Congress from the Fifth District has ever held elective office, making the choice for voters in the Oct. 16 special election mo...
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Abuse suspect has long history of working with childrenOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - One thing appears certain. Wherever A. Paul Carlock Jr. was, children were not far away. Newspaper and court records researched Wednesday, along with interviews of con...
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College Football Nation: Boy, were the preseason polls wrongOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - There was supposed to be a neat little round-robin at the end of the season. Three teams, all ranked up high the preseason, get together on three successive weeken...
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Hard to forget Jeff Jordan is the son of a legendOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Sitting on the metal folding chair inside the Ubben Basketball Complex, Illinois freshman point guard Jeff Jordan wore the normal, everyday clothes of a college student....
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Maddocks: Giuliani pledges that, if elected, he will not pay taxesOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Seeking to boost his credentials as a fiscal conservative, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, pledged this week that if he is elected, he will not pay taxes....
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Senate Democrats eyeing restoration of some $50 millionOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Democrats in the Illinois Senate are preparing to restore at least some of the money cut from the state budget by Gov. Rod Blagojevich. However, senators said Wednesda...