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McClellan: How robbing a pot dealer puts you on the sex offender list
Bill McClellan April 21, 2014 STL On a January evening in 2004, four young men were visiting an acquaintance who lived in an apartment in Maplewood. Also living in the apartment was a 17-year-old who...
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CITY OF McLEANSBORO FACES OPPOSITION TO ZONING ORDINANCE
McLEANSBORO, Ill.—”We’re not here to answer your questions. We’re just here to hear what you have to say.” The zoning commission; mayor Dick Dietz in purple in the foreground; seated next to him is...
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Nightly NewsCap: A day’s worth of headlines for your listening pleasure in...
Here’s Lyndi with another busy day in the readership area and the Nightly NewsCap for the evening of Monday, April 21, 2014! Topics covered include: wreck on Route 1 in Gallatin County sends all...
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Ex-death row inmate Anthony Porter angry, feels ‘cheated’ out of money
By FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter April 19, 2014 9:40AM Anthony Porter is angry. He’s come within hours of being executed after he was convicted of killing two people. He was freed from Death Row after...
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Southern Illinois HIV cases at decade high
Updated 2:23 pm Monday, April 21, 2014 SFgate.com In this April 16, 2014 photo, Tony Wyatt, 56, of Murphysboro, Ill., a client representative with Southern Illinois HIV Care Connect, is seen in...
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Most Conflicted Journalist in the Country?
$521,000 CONFLICTED INTERESTS Rich Miller– Springfield’s Capitol Fax “journalist”– rakes in over $521,000 in payments from 70 State Agencies and other governments- plus 181 political committees. Is...
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Nightly NewsCap: A brief one but a good one, in AUDIO
Here’s Lyndi to finish out the week of headlines for the evening of Friday, April 25, 2014! Topics covered include: Justin DeRyke, murderer of Willow Long, appeals his sentence with a Motion to...
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JUDGE’S DECISION COULD BE COSTLY FOR EDGAR COUNTY, BUT NOT THE WAY THE...
From our friends the Edgar County Watchdogs: Dee Burgin EDGAR CO. (ECWd) -The case of the Edgar County Sheriff (Ed Motley) v. Roger Hopper and Dee Burgin was called in court today (Friday, April 25,...
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Students sue Hawaii university over freedom of speech
Malia Mattoch McManusReuters 7:25 p.m. CDT April 25, 2014 HONOLULU (Reuters) – Two students are suing a Hawaii university after they say they were told in January they could not pass out copies of the...
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ACCUSED CHILD MOLESTER WILL NOT GO THROUGH WITH TRIAL
EFFINGHAM CO., Ill.—While in Effingham yesterday, Disclosure staff learned that a man who has been accused of prolific sexual assault on children has been set for a plea in his case instead of a trial....
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ONE INJURED IN ROLLOVER TRAFFIC CRASH
EDWARDS CO., Ill.—A single-vehicle traffic crash last night has left an Albion man in the hospital, according to Illinois State Police. The incident occurred on Illinois Route 130, 1/10 of a mile...
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In Illinois, Tax Increases Become an Article of Faith
By HEATHER WILHELM Updated April 25, 2014 7:51 p.m. ETIn Illinois—a state plagued by epic budget woes, a pension crisis, byzantine taxes and the nation’s second-highest unemployment rate—politics is...
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Man Lost At Sea For 14 Months Denies Eating Shipmate
The Huffington Post | by David Moye Posted: 04/25/2014 5:14 pm EDT Updated: 04/25/2014 5:59 pm EDT Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who was rescued in January after 14 months adrift at sea, insists there is...
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Ameren Illinois seeks $69 million rate hike
By Jacob Barker April 25, 2014 STL Ameren Illinois is asking Illinois regulators to approve higher rates for next year as part of the formulaic rate-setting process set up by the state’s 2011 “smart...
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WEATHER SYSTEM MOVING IN; HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ISSUED
MIDWEST—Another weather system is moving across the Midwest today and tonight, and the threat of severe weather can be seen in the graphics and maps below, along with information from the National...
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In Poorest States, Political Stigma Is Depressing Participation in Health Law
By JACKIE CALMES APRIL 26, 2014 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Inside the sleek hillside headquarters of Valley Health Systems, built with a grant from the health care law, two employees played an advertisement...
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South Korean PM resigns over government response to ferry disaster
BY NARAE KIM SEOUL Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:11am EDT Reuters (Reuters) – South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announced his resignation on Sunday over the government response to the ferry disaster, in...
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Mom charged with murder of newborn son left outside in plastic bag
By Mitch Smith Tribune reporter 7:45 p.m. CDT, April 26, 2014 The 18-year-old woke up early last Saturday morning, gave birth to a full-term baby boy, placed him outside her house in a plastic Walmart...
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Sentenced to life in prison, man hopes new clemency rules will get him out
By Wesley Bruer and Nick Valencia, CNN updated 10:58 AM EDT, Sun April 27, 2014(CNN) – “I did not really realize I was getting life until the date of sentencing. When my attorney told me, I told him...
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Tennessee policeman fired after photos show him choking student
BY TIM GHIANNI Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:04am EDT (Reuters) – A sheriff in Tennessee fired an officer after a British newspaper published photographs on Sunday that showed him choking a handcuffed college...
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