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Editorial: DA keeps promise on community serviceOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Sadly, voters have grown accustomed to politicians making grandiose promises during a campaign. They vow to serve the office with more integrity than their predecessors;...
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Humorist Loretta LaRoche talks about aging well in her new bookOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Editor's note: Embed text for two YouTube-based videos are at bottom. Humorist Loretta LaRoche is more than 60 years old now and still laughing, knowing it's more i...
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Nature Conservancy has protected the wild world for half a centuryOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - It all started with a sphagnum bog. In 1957, a dedicated team of volunteers rallied to preserve 82 acres of sphagnum-moss wetlands and beech-maple forest at Moss L...
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Cubs mood: cautiousOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - What a difference a few days can make. On Monday, thousands of Cubs fans thronged Daley Plaza during a jubilant rally for the National League Central Division cha...
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Phil Arvia: Lou gets 'a little animated' after Game 1Oct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - For the record, as Carlos Marmol entered Game 1 of the National League Division Series on Wednesday night, I raised an eyebrow in the direction of the colleague to my le...
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Jordan, South Shore hospitals look at ways to share resourcesOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - The leaders of South Shore Hospital in Weymouth and Jordan Hospital in Plymouth have decided that they will work together instead of competing with each other for patien...
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A story of Cleveland and its RomeoOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - The Belichick coaching tree has wilted a bit of late. Charlie Weis' Fightin' Irish are closer to pushing up daisies than bearing fruit, while Nick Saban salted the earth...
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Maddocks: Device introduced to slow rush to judgment in CongressOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Saying that his company was the victim of "a rush to judgment" by a Congressional committee, the head of Blackwater USA introduced plans to build a circular intersection...
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Central Illinois children part of national health studyOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - About 1,000 children from Macoupin County will be enrolled in a federal study that tracks their health and development - and the environmental and genetic influences on ...
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Illini juggle surging confidence, growing hypeOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - The wins came in a surprisingly rapid succession. Yet Illinois football coach Ron Zook didn't want his Illini listening to all the talk. "We haven't done anything yet,''...