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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. ...
Jun 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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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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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 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...
Jun 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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McConnell faults Obama as foe’s albatross in 2014
LEXINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took political potshots Saturday at President Barack Obama, saying his expertise at “the blame game” allowed him to win re-election to a se...
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Proposal lists glade cress as threatened
LOUISVILLE — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a new rule that would classify the tiny Kentucky glade cress as a threatened species. The Courier-Journal reports the agency is solic...
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Mysterious bee deaths causing controversy
ST. LOUIS — One of every three bites of food we consume depends on pollination by honeybees, but these overlooked contributors to our food system are continuing to die in stubbornly perplexing ways...
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