http://nwherald.comThe latest news from the nwherald.com websiteen-usTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Asian carp might have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/21/r_bstqfsq0rq6wyjp3hlmdg/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/21/r_bstqfsq0rq6wyjp3hlmdg/index.xmlSat, 21 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTWASHINGTON – The Senate Ethics Committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama’s old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/21/r_hqnpontrrpoh_ge1tr6lda/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/21/r_hqnpontrrpoh_ge1tr6lda/index.xmlSat, 21 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTST. LOUIS – The Army Corps of Engineers is monitoring a Mississippi River levee near St. Louis after discovering a problem that could cause it to fail.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_anacpkjkt_6sbamwn8ngja/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_anacpkjkt_6sbamwn8ngja/index.xmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO (AP) – Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying "prayer and careful thought" led her to her decision.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_fo5jt0bptr97lhi67zc_q/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_fo5jt0bptr97lhi67zc_q/index.xmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO – Dozens of American flags lined the outside a Chicago funeral home where a 21-year-old soldier killed at Fort Hood was remembered Thursday as an optimistic person who loved to dance and who had dedicated her life to service.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_kx7y5pqqgyscl4hm6zwtw/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_kx7y5pqqgyscl4hm6zwtw/index.xmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO – Mentally ill residents of Illinois nursing homes often don’t know their rights and some are confined against their will, a lawyer with 35 years’ experience in mental health law told a state task force Thursday.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_oih0mapryul3gapjyq_jq/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/20/r_oih0mapryul3gapjyq_jq/index.xmlFri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO (AP) – Oprah Winfrey's iconic television talk show will end in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, her production company said Thursday.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/86714840/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/86714840/index.xmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 23:46:31 GMTCHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes disagreed over the best way to raise the state income tax but agreed on their support for a government-run health insurance program during two debates Wednesday between the rival Democratic candidates for governor.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/r_qjmx9ohbqqgmvizvu0zdg/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/r_qjmx9ohbqqgmvizvu0zdg/index.xmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 07:30:00 GMTCHICAGO – The University of Chicago Crime Lab and two community organizations – including part of the city’s failed Olympic bid – are expanding a youth program to curb violence by blending counseling, martial arts and nontraditional sports, officials said Wednesday.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/18/r_qszbnuw4qviastk_4emaea/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/18/r_qszbnuw4qviastk_4emaea/index.xmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO – Chicago police said Wednesday that tests revealed gunshot residue on the hand of Michael Scott – the strongest evidence that the president of the city’s school board took his own life.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/18/r_zuohseexrnwfl788wrgcnq/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/18/r_zuohseexrnwfl788wrgcnq/index.xmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn said a deal to sell a prison in northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees “probably” would happen.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/r_d6deipl4tbqrsthj8x5wg/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/r_d6deipl4tbqrsthj8x5wg/index.xmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTSPRINGFIELD – Political organizations are churning out news releases. Hesitant candidates gradually are taking positions. Politicians are trying to steer the debate their way.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/r_pb_1bpwettaefqbawhxvnq/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/19/r_pb_1bpwettaefqbawhxvnq/index.xmlThu, 19 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHAMPAIGN – Tristesse Jones probably never will drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_4w1pi4eitwq_dkbwdbx50q/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_4w1pi4eitwq_dkbwdbx50q/index.xmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTWASHINGTON – Worried that the Army might have missed red flags about the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon likely will launch an inquiry into how all the military services keep watch on other volatile soldiers hidden in their ranks, officials said Tuesday.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_d4yvnoht72lmnzws84wsg/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_d4yvnoht72lmnzws84wsg/index.xmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO – Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city’s school board president a suicide a day after an autopsy concluded he shot himself in the head.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_mmp8scvrrcsdd7foofegkg/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_mmp8scvrrcsdd7foofegkg/index.xmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO – As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_pdij2x7csjws87_fazvzhq/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_pdij2x7csjws87_fazvzhq/index.xmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTSPRINGFIELD – As parties involved in the lawsuit surrounding a 2006 fatal crash on Route 25 await a ruling from the state’s high court, attorneys wonder whether the court’s ruling could broaden who can be held responsible for someone else’s drinking.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_u1afo6tssakd1hf64smlaw/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_u1afo6tssakd1hf64smlaw/index.xmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTQUINCY – A central Illinois utility company announced it would launch a $20 million cleanup of underground contaminants at a defunct gas-manufacturing plant in Quincy.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_vfe71l2oq7kcsyia7yyy4w/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_vfe71l2oq7kcsyia7yyy4w/index.xmlWed, 18 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTGENEVA – Kane County Republican Party leaders urged the more than 300 people at the 14th Congressional District candidates forum Sunday to support whichever man wins the February primary so that the party can reclaim the seat from the Democrats.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_cpayytbotkakafzucjgjda/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_cpayytbotkakafzucjgjda/index.xmlTue, 17 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMTCHICAGO – Chicago’s school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said as his death was met with disbelief by civic leaders and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.http://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_hvagj2e_tveyaqalsuy2xa/index.xmlhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2009/11/17/r_hvagj2e_tveyaqalsuy2xa/index.xmlTue, 17 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMT