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Thursday 11th March, 2010

  • Ill. World War Ii Vets Stream Toward Dc Monument

    Examiner

    The chance viewing of a segment on a television new program gave Don Niehart an idea that has enriched the golden years of 296 World War II veterans from the southeastern third of

  • Bulls Fading In Tough Stretch

    Examiner

    Celtics .Now? It's losses that are piling up, along with injuries.If the season ended now, the Bulls would be out of the playoffs. At 31-32 and with five straight losses, the Bulls were ninth in the E...

  • Siu Cancer Center Gets Grant For Online Resources

    Examiner

    Springfield .The institute plans to use the money to develop online resources about cancer prevention, education and awareness.The institute staff hopes to gather Web resources for use by health care ...

  • Foundation Funds Day-camp Scholarships

    Examiner

    Parkways Foundation , put up the money to subsidize eligible children for up to 75 percent of the cost of attending the six week sessions.Families must live in Chicago. And they have to show proof of ...

  • Illinois Gas Companies Urge Pipeline Safety

    Examiner

    Illinois natural gas companies are asking contractors, workers and residents to follow pipeline safety procedures as the weather warms and construction season begins.Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas bo...

  • Suburban Chicago Man Charged In Bank Robbery

    Examiner

    Bolingbrook on Friday.Authorities say he lead officers on a several-mile car chase before he was stopped and arrested on Chicago's West Side. No injuries were reported.Ortiz is charged with one count ...

  • Sharp Scores In Overtime, Blackhawks Beat L.a.

    CBS 2 Chicago

    The Blackhawks' Patrick Sharp was all alone, hanging back a bit in overtime and waiting for a chance the puck might come his way in a 4-on-4 game. And when Los Angeles' Brad Richardson made an erra...

  • Blagojevich Delivers Top Ten List On Letterman

    CBS 2 Chicago

    (2/11/2010) Deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich paid a return visit to "The Late Show David Letterman" Wednesday to field jokes -- mostly about his hair. Blagojevich,

  • County Cop Gets Traffic School

    Chicago Sun-Times

    MARY WISNIEWSKI Transportation Reporter mwisniewski@suntimes.com A Traffic Court judge Wednesday ordered a Cook County sheriff's officer to traffic school for hitting a highway worker. "It's time ...

  • Daley: Students Get Cheated When Grades Are Changed

    Chicago Sun-Times

    ROSALIND ROSSI Staff Reporters The schools inspector general has launched grade-changing investigations at more than 30 Chicago Public Schools, including Hyde Park Academy High, where more than 2,0...

  • Prosecutors Not Sure If They'll Call Carothers

    Chicago Sun-Times

    NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter nkorecki@suntimes.com He covertly cooperated with the government for more than a year, but Ald. Ike Carothers might not testify at the trial of the developer...

  • Mexican Billionaire Is Richest In World

    Chicago Sun-Times

    The title of World's Richest Man has been exported. The new holder: Mexico's Carlos Slim, with a net worth of $53.5 billion, up $18.5 billion from last year.

  • 50 Kids, Multiple Drinks A Bad Mix For Bus Driver

    Chicago Sun-Times

    KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter/kjanssen@suntimes.com A school bus driver who allegedly drove a bus full of students while nearly three times the legal blood alcohol limit has been suspended and charged...

  • 3-d Tvs Hit Shelves This Week With Eye-popping Price

    Chicago Sun-Times

    Want to be the first one on your block with a 3-D television? It will cost you about $3,000. Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what manufacturers...

  • More Tasers, More Training For Chicago Police Officers

    Chicago Sun-Times

    FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter / fmain@suntimes.com The menacing target looked a bit like Brian Urlacher with a hangover. I stood 7 feet away, pointing a yellow Taser gun at it. A red dot from the lase...

  • Whitney Young Teacher's 1st Novel Wins Top Award

    Chicago Sun-Times

    (Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times) Shedding tears in the assistant principal's office because you're spending 40 hours a week teaching, 40 hours a week editing your book -- and you have no life. A fe...

  • Gov: Tax Hike For Education, Billions In Spending Cuts

    Chicago Sun-Times

    DAVE McKINNEY AND STEVE CONTORNO Sun-Times Springfield Bureau SPRINGFIELD -- Uncorking a risky election-year gambit, Gov. Quinn on Wednesday proposed a 33 percent increase in the state income tax t...

  • Act Quickly To Snag Big Air Deals

    Chicago Sun-Times

    Some steep discounts are available to air travelers in the next two days in what one industry analyst calls "the first big summer fare sale" of the year. AirTran sparked the sale this week, with US A...

  • Panera Bread Menus Soon To Post Food Calorie Counts

    Chicago Sun-Times

    CHERYL V. JACKSON cjackson@suntimes.com Upscale bakery and sandwich shop chain Panera Bread on Wednesday said it will post the calorie count of food items on its menu boards at stores across the coun...

  • Higher Retirement Age Eyed

    Chicago Sun-Times

    Gov. Quinn wants to impose $503 million in cuts, affecting the current state work force and future retirees. The governor wants to save: • $203 million by seeking employee furloughs, increasing ...

  • Ptsd Counseling Efforts, Military Families Affected

    Chicago Sun-Times

    In cuts that would affect veterans, Gov. Quinn proposed slicing from the budget: • $1.1 million by eliminating military family relief fund grants. • $50,000 for post traumatic stress disor...

  • No More Snow This Season? Maybe Not

    Chicago Sun-Times

    With temperatures in the Chicago area hitting the 60s Wednesday and most of the snow melting, can we figure we're done with snow for the year? Well, snow's not likely to return by this weekend, at le...

  • Pols Responses To Quinn's Budget

    Chicago Sun-Times

    ''No one wants to see K-12 decimated the way he's talking about. At the end of the day, this isn't going to happen. He will not introduce a budget that provides for $1.2 billion in cuts to the educati...

  • How Education Might Suffer If Income Tax Increase Fails

    Chicago Sun-Times

    Gov. Quinn's bid to raise the state income tax from 3 percent to 4 percent would avert $1.3 billion in cuts he otherwise vowed to make to public schools, community colleges and universities. If the t...

  • State Police Would Lose 500, Operation Ceasefire Its Funding

    Chicago Sun-Times

    From the public safety section of the budget, Gov. Quinn proposed cutting: 奥 $25.3 million from the State Police, which will reduce the head count by 500 people in the agency through layoffs a...

  • Car Rental Fees Remain High

    Chicago Sun-Times

    BY BETH J. HARPAZ NEW YORK -- Travelers have been able to score decent deals on hotel rooms and airfares over the last year. But car rental prices have increased dramatically despite the weak economy...

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