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  • Woman of the Year nominees being sought

    WOODSTOCK – The Woodstock Professional and Business Women organization is accepting nominations for the annual Woman of the Year award.
    March 5, 2015 - 11:39 pm

  • Heart screenings proven successful

    WOODSTOCK – Centegra Health System is working to schedule additional heart screenings with several area schools after a recent screening at Woodstock ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:39 pm

  • Harrison Ford survives crash-landing on golf course

    LOS ANGELES – Harrison Ford crash-landed his vintage plane Thursday after losing engine power, suffering serious but not life-threatening injuries as ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:32 pm

  • Charges filed against 2 named to build car charging stations

    CHICAGO – The former owners of a California-based company tasked to build electric car charging stations in Illinois have been charged with fraud.
    March 5, 2015 - 11:31 pm

  • Park Ridge mayor dies at 57 after 'sudden illness'

    PARK RIDGE – Park Ridge says Mayor David Schmidt has died at age 57.The city said in a statement tha ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:31 pm

  • Last Ebola patient is released in Liberia

    MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberia released its last Ebola patient, a 58-year old teacher, from a treatment center on Thursday, beginning its countdown to be ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:31 pm

  • Lawmakers propose increasing earned income tax credit

    SPRINGFIELD – Democratic lawmakers are proposing to double an income tax break supporters say has helped low-paid workers.
    March 5, 2015 - 11:29 pm

  • AbbVie to buy leukemia drugmaker Pharmacyclics for $21B

    AbbVie will spend about $21 billion to buy fellow drugmaker Pharmacyclics in a bid to add another major revenue producer to a product portfolio that a ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:29 pm

  • Unions sue to block Gov. Rauner's order on dues collection

    CHICAGO – Illinois labor unions filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to invalidate Gov. Bruce Rauner's executive order ending a requirement that state wor ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:29 pm

  • Father tells jury about boy’s death at marathon

    BOSTON – With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seated at the defense table no more than 15 feet away Thursday, the father of an 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston M ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:28 pm

  • Jurors in Jodi Arias case: We were 11-1 for death penalty

    PHOENIX – Jurors who deadlocked on the punishment for convicted murderer Jodi Arias, sparing her life, said Thursday that they were 11-1 in favor of t ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:28 pm

  • Can Clinton live up to pledge to learn from ’08?

    WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton says that if she pursues the presidency again, it will be different this time.
    March 5, 2015 - 11:28 pm

  • Plane skids off LaGuardia runway

    NEW YORK – A Delta plane from Atlanta skidded off a LaGuardia Airport runway while landing during a snowstorm Thursday and crashed through a chain-lin ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:27 pm

  • Some say tax break would help kids in poverty

    SPRINGFIELD – Democratic lawmakers sought Thursday to double a tax break for low-income workers, introducing their plan the same morning a child advoc ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:27 pm

  • U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren joins bipartisan group on community colleges

    The congressman whose district includes McHenry County College and six other community colleges has joined a bipartisan group aimed at promoting commu ...
    March 5, 2015 - 11:40 pm

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