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Beware of phone scamJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - The Kansas Department of Revenue has learned that Kansas residents are receiving telephone calls from an unknown organization claiming to be the Kansas Department of Rev...
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State officials agree on temporary budget timetableJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the four legislative leaders can't agree on a full-year state budget, but they've signed off on a plan to keep the state afloat for one more m...
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Beginner's Box: Corn salad a winnerJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Great -- an invitation to a picnic! Uh, oh. The invitation includes a request to bring a salad. Beginning cooks dread the potluck and the inevitable, "Who brought this?"...
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Popular coney sauce returnsJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Sometimes an outcry from consumers does result in a happy ending. For more than a year, Helen Woods of Springfield has been phoning Faribault Foods, asking the comp...
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Thou shalt follow the rules of the roadJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain, even if thou art following an exceedingly slow driver." That's not one of the pope's new "10 Commandments for the Road...
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What's Your SignJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Note: To run June 28 CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you were born on today's date, everyone you meet today will offer to buy you a drink. If not, you'll have a gre...
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Piniella: Why fix it if it ain't broken?Jun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Shortly after a fierce rainstorm turned Wrigley Field into a water park late Tuesday afternoon, the subject of what to do with Cubs leadoff man Alfonso Soriano came up o...
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Religion Beat: Diocese gears up for fightJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - The Episcopal Church has a question for the west-central Illinois Diocese of Quincy. Are you ready to rummmmmbbbbblllllllllle? The denomination's executive council decla...
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Racists use Cutts/Davis case as fuel for 'hate'Jun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Before Bobby L. Cutts Jr.'s court appearance Monday, fliers were slid underneath windshield wipers of nearby cars and handed out to those walking by. "White ladies be...
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More than 41 million expected to travel during holidayJun 26, 2007 11:00 pm - No three-day weekend? That won't keep us at home. Even with Independence Day falling on a Wednesday this year, AAA Chicago estimates a record 41.1 million Americans will...