June 19, 2013
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CUB: Illinois residents waste $1.4 billion on data plans
CHICAGO — Illinois residents using mobile phones are wasting $1.4 billion a year by signing up for the wrong cellphone data plan, according to a consumer advocacy group’s study released Tuesday. ...
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Quinn signs tough fracking regulations law
CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation giving the state the nation’s strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling. In a news release, Quinn’s office says the gove...
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Illinois toddler dies when car swept into creek
MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — Authorities say a 2-year-old western Illinois boy is dead after flood waters swept his father’s car into a rain-swollen creek. Brown County Sheriff Karl Groesch says Malac...
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Counselors available at SIU-Carbondale after student dies in weekend wreck
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Administrators are making counselors available to students at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale after a student died in a weekend traffic crash. Five others with ties...
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Retired congressman takes control of flight
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Retired Congressman Ken Gray took to the sky for a sentimental journey May 30. Gray, 88, took the controls aboard one of Black Diamond Aviation’s helicopters, allowing him a bird...
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Associated Press Steve Libert, president of Great Lakes Exploration Group, stands near the Traverse City, Mich., marina on June 6 on Lake Michigan. On Saturday, Libert led a diving expedition to an underwater site in northern Lake Michigan where archaeologists and technicians will try to determine whether timbers he found while diving in 2001 are what remain of 17th century French explorer La Salle's legendary Griffin.
Expedition hopes to find lost ship
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher’s stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the Missis...
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Messages seek to sway Nixon on abortion bill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Numerous messages are urging Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to sign legislation that would require doctors be in the room for the initial dose of a drug used in medical abortions. ...
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Associated Press Cyclists ride on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago on June 11. The city joins New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco this year in turning loose the nation's largest bike-sharing programs, Divvy, catapulting what was once a way for smaller cities to showcase their eco-friendly qualities into the mainstream transportation options of the country's very largest urban expanses.
Chicago joins bike-sharing cities
CHICAGO — The newest piece of Chicago’s vast transit puzzle will not rumble between skyscrapers on its 100-year-old elevated rail lines or utilize its fleet of hybrid buses. The city is turning to ...
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Associated Press Paul McCartney performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Friday in Manchester, Tenn.
Paul McCartney carries the weight at Bonnaroo
MANCHESTER, Tennessee — Even a former Beatle needs a moment standing on the main stage at Bonnaroo. A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Pau...
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Hospital investigates surgery photos
URBANA, Ill. — A central Illinois hospital has investigated three instances of employees using personal cellphones to photograph patients during surgery. The News-Gazette in Champaign reports th...
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