June 18, 2013
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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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Elizabethtown mayor dies at 54
ELIZABETHTOWN — Elizabethtown Mayor Tim Walker, whose decades-long service to the central Kentucky city included stints as a firefighter and city councilman, died Friday at Hardin Memorial Hospital...
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Associated Press Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks at a news conference Friday in Chicago after attending a meeting with House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton in an attempt to solve the state's worst-in-the-nation $97 billion pension crisis.
Dems to try pension bill again
CHICAGO — A solution to Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation state pension crisis remained far from reach Friday, as legislative leaders and Gov. Pat Quinn said they would try again to pass a plan backed ...
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Police: Man shoots 3, self in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS — An argument inside a St. Louis home health care business escalated into gun violence Thursday when a man shot three other people before turning the gun on himself, police said. The s...
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A memorial to Elvis Presley is displayed outside Graceland, Presley's Memphis, Tenn. home, on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Fans from around the world are at Graceland to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Presley's death. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Events lined up for Elvis Week
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An appearance by former Elvis Presley co-star Mother Dolores Hart and a listening party for a new box set featuring his performances at Stax Records are highlights of the annual...
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Hundreds of arrests
CHICAGO (AP) — A homeless Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times in the past 35 years has been ordered by a judge to get mental health and substance abuse treatment. Shermain Miles, 51, a...
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Daley set to challenge Democratic governor in Ill.
by SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO — A rare intra-party battle began taking shape Tuesday among big-name Democrats in Illinois, as former White House chief of staff Bill Daley positione...
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FILE - In this July 1, 2009 file photo, Anna Kane, 5, of Alton, Ill., looks down from "The Ledge," at the Sears Tower in Chicago. The series of glass bays jut out from the 103rd floor of the building, now called the Willis Tower. Nearly six million people have stepped out onto see-through ledges since the tourist attraction opened. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
Glass ledges boast more than 6 million visitors
CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly six million people have stepped out onto see-through ledges atop Chicago's tallest building to see the streetscape below and the surrounding metropolitan area. The Willis Tow...
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Associated Press Twenty-four sets of fifth-grade twins pose for a photo Thursday at Highcrest Middle School in Wilmette, Ill. The school is attempting to break a Guinness World record for the amount of twins in one grade which is currently sixteen sets.
Illinois school boasts 24 sets of twins
WILMETTE, Ill. — Like a lot of kids, the two brothers from northern Illinois spent hours marveling at the weird and the wonderful in the Guinness Book of World Records — and wondering what they cou...
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