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Illinois gas station owners oppose fuel tax hike
CHACOUR KOOP, Associated Press Updated 3:49 pm, Monday, April 14, 2014 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Increasing fuel taxes to pay for Illinois road construction will hurt businesses — and hit consumers at...
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What’s the Matter With Illinois?
April 14, 2014 7:14 p.m. ET WSJ If the states are laboratories of democracy, then a great comparative policy experiment is taking place in America’s Great Lakes region. Democrats in Illinois have been...
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Alleged KC shooter was `the fringe of the fringe’ among white supremacists
By Kevin McDermott April 15, 2014 STL The man accused in Sunday’s triple killing at a Kansas City-area Jewish community center and retirement complex has left a long, twisting history of hate...
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SECOND SUSPECT CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN ANNA
UNION CO., Ill.—A second suspect has been arrested and charged in the beating death of a man in Anna over the weekend. Travis Turner Union County mugshot Travis Turner, no age given, of Dongola, was...
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Birmingham probes Muslim takeover of schools ‘plot’
By Robin Millard April 14, 2014 10:00 AM The government sent in a former counter-terror chief to investigate claims of an Islamist plot to that over schools in Birmingham Frederic Florin/AFP/File...
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Tough tax votes loom in Illinois
April 14, 2014 By Kerry Lester STL FILE – In this April 1, 2014 file photo, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, listens to lawmakers during a House committee hearing at the Capitol in...
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France Rape Case: 527 DNA Tests Planned In High School Sexual Assault Case
Posted: 04/14/2014 4:00 am EDT Updated: 04/14/2014 5:59 am EDT AP PARIS (AP) — Male students and staff at a high school in western France — 527 people in total — were asked to give DNA samples...
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One Squirrel Managed To Cause $300K In Damages To Building
The Huffington Post Posted: 04/13/2014 9:05 am EDT Updated: 04/13/2014 9:59 am EDT FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Officials say a wayward squirrel caused about $300,000 in damage to an eastern Indiana...
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Rand Paul: ‘We Can’t Invite The Whole World’ To Immigrate To U.S.
By Christina Wilkie Posted: 04/13/2014 2:03 pm EDT Updated: 04/14/2014 2:59 am EDT WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said that America “can’t invite the whole world” to enter the country,...
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SALINE COUNTY BOARD VOTES TO CLOSE ROCKY BRANCH ROAD IN MINE DEAL WITH PEABODY
Rocky Branch residents are shown here holding up signs of protest nearlyblocking the exit as Saline County Board members left the meeting. SALINE CO.— A special meeting of the Saline County Board to...
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Could Walgreens’ corporate headquarters be leaving Illinois for Europe?
April 14, 2014 By Lewis Lazare Just what Illinois didn’t need. Even as the state is battling an image that it is inhospitable to business, a report in theFinancial Times on Sunday suggested one of the...
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JEFFERSON COUNTY WOMAN CONVICTED ON METHAMPHETAMINE RELATED CHARGES
U.S. DISTRICT COURT/JEFFERSON CO., Ill—A Jefferson County woman was convicted on April 15, 2014, on methamphetamine related charges following a two day jury trial, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States...
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Missing Harrisburg woman has been located, friends and family thank the...
SALINE CO., Ill. — Friends of a young woman who has been missing from Harrisburg for several days have contacted Disclosure, telling us that she had been found safe and sound. Brianna Eckelberry, 22,...
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Strip club tax in Illinois falls short of expectations
Lee Enterprises Springfield Bureau April 16, 2014 STL SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • A new tax on Illinois strip clubs generated significantly less money than what supporters hoped it would raise in its first...
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COSTON’S GIRLFRIEND SENTENCED TODAY IN OBSTRUCTION CASE
WHITE CO., Ill.—The case of Candice Brown was officially put to rest today with her sentencing in her Obstruction conviction. Brown was charged a few days after the arrest of Danny Coston (for his...
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AUDIOTAPE IN MURDER FOR HIRE CASE SHOWS INTENT
SALINE CO.— “The only way I am going to get money out of this bitch is if she’s dead.” That was just one of stunning statements the jury in the Eldorado Murder for Hire case heard this afternoon...
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KIM BUTLER NAMED WARDEN OF MENARD CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Kim Butler CHESTER, ILLINOIS – Kim Butler, a 20-year veteran of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) was today named Warden of Menard Correctional Center (MCC). She is the first woman ever to...
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Nightly NewsCap! A very active news day in the area, in AUDIO!
Here’s Lyndi rounding up the day’s news for Wednesday, April 16, 2014, in audio! Topics covered include: the Saline County trial of Roger Young, accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife;...
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PEACEFUL PROTEST IN CARBONDALE OVER PEABODY BEING EYEBALLED BY POLICE
CARBONDALE, Ill.—A peaceful protest staged this morning on the campus of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale is currently being eyeballed by campus police, and the report is that police are not...
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Bill would ban corporal punishment in Missouri schools
By Alex Stuckey April 17, 2014 STL JEFFERSON CITY • Through 13 years of teaching, Jennifer Kavanaugh never dreamed of hitting a child — not even once. Kavanaugh, now a fifth-grade teacher at St....
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