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  • Easy steps to greater home comfort

    There are worse situations than waking up at 3 a.m. with an ice-cold nose to realizing your furnace is not working.   But it’s hard to think of them ...
    NEW: March 2, 2015 - 8:30 am

  • 10 Things to Know for March 2; UN says thousands have died in Ukraine's violence

    Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:
    NEW: March 2, 2015 - 8:28 am

  • Survey: Parents increasingly ask doctors to delay vaccines

    CHICAGO – Parents have increasingly pressured doctors to delay vaccines for young children, making their kids and others vulnerable to preventable dis ...
    March 2, 2015 - 5:30 am

  • No plane, many discoveries in yearlong search for Flight 370

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand – The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn’t mean it’s been unp ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:49 pm

  • 30,000 marchers in Moscow mourn slain Putin foe

    MOSCOW – For the tens of thousands bearing flowers and tying black ribbons to railings in honor of slain Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:51 pm

  • Uganda: Victims back leniency for LRA chief but trial awaits

    BARLONYO, Uganda – This is the horror that Silveria Okweny is willing to forgive:On Feb. 21, 2004, a ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:51 pm

  • Myanmar captures rare white elephant in western jungles

    YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar's forestry department has captured a rare white elephant in the jungles of the country's western Ayeyarwaddy region, an offi ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:47 pm

  • Joint birthday party for NY couple married 82 years

    SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. – A husband and wife thought to be one of the oldest married couples in New York have celebrated their birthdays – and their combi ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:47 pm

  • Prince William gets close look at tsunami disaster in Japan

    ISHINOMAKI, Japan – Britain's Prince William stood atop a hill in northeastern Japan on Sunday, and stretched below him was barren land known as the " ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:47 pm

  • Crowd kills girl suspected to be suicide bomber in Nigeria

    BAUCHI, Nigeria – A crowd beat to death a teenage girl accused of planning to be a suicide bomber and then set her body ablaze Sunday, according to po ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:47 pm

  • Rauner budget could mean fewer Amtrak trains

    SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed state budget would cut 40 percent from Illinois’ funding for Amtrak trains during a time when ridership has ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:44 pm

  • Archaeologist details Lincoln-related Bloomington dig

    BLOOMINGTON – An archaeologist has offered details of what excavators found last summer when they were working near the McLean County Museum of Histor ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:44 pm

  • Illinois hunters, outdoorsmen hope for ally in Rauner

    SPRINGFIELD – Illinois hunters and outdoors enthusiasts see Gov. Bruce Rauner as a potential new ally in Springfield as they eye legislation this sess ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:45 pm

  • Supreme Court case threatens voter-approved independent redistricting

    WASHINGTON – In a reversal of the usual worries about political influence on electoral map-making, the Supreme Court is being asked to let raw politic ...
    March 1, 2015 - 11:46 pm

  • 16-year-old boy charged with murder in Aurora shooting death

    AURORA – A 16-year-old boy from Aurora has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting.
    March 1, 2015 - 11:44 pm

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