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Kathy Chapman, a childhood friend of Maria Ridulph who was with her just before her disappearance in 1957, talks to the media in Sycamore, Ill., after the guilty verdict of Jack McCullough for the kidnapping and murder of the 7-year-old Ridulph, of Sycamore. The 72-year-old McCullough was convicted in one of the oldest unsolved crimes to eventually get to court in the U.S. (AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Kyle Bursaw) MANDATORY CREDIT, CHICAGO LOCALS OUT, ROCKFORD OUT
Man convicted in 1957 murder of 7-year-old girl
SYCAMORE, Ill. — For most of five decades, it seemed no one would ever be held accountable for the murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl snatched off a small-town street corner as she played. Now...
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Associated Press Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago teachers union, departs a news conference after meeting with the union's House of Delegates Friday in Chicago. Lewis told the delegates that a "framework" was in place to end the teachers strike.
Negotiators form ‘framework’ to end strike
CHICAGO — The city’s nearly weeklong teachers strike appeared headed toward a resolution Friday after negotiators emerged from marathon talks to say they had achieved a “framework” that could end t...
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CORRECTS SOURCE TO U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY- In this photo taken by the U.S. Geological Survey and provided by the California Department of Fish and Game, a sea otter holds her pup at Seacliff State Beach near Aptos, Calif., on, Sept. 10, 2012. The sea otter, known as Olive, has amazed researchers by becoming the first sea otter not only to survive a dunking in oil but then also go on to deliver a healthy pup. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Joe Tomoleoni)
First California otter to survive oil spill has a pup
SAN FRANCISCO — Just three years after she was found covered in oil and near death, a California sea otter called Olive is a new mom — another milestone for the first otter to survive an oiling in ...
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Judge strikes down law limiting union rights
MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers. W...
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Associated Press Soft drinks are on display during a baseball game between the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals Wednesday in New York. Health officials are expected to approve an unprecedented 16-ounce limit on sodas and other sugary drinks sold at restaurants, delis and movie theaters.
NYC bans big, sugary drinks at restaurants
NEW YORK — New York City cracked down on the sale of supersized sodas and other sugary drinks Thursday in what was celebrated as a groundbreaking attempt to curb obesity but condemned as a blatant ...
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Associated Press White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House Friday in Washington.
Administration warns of deep budget cuts
WASHINGTON — A White House report issued Friday warns that $109 billion in across-the-board spending cuts at the start of the new year would be “deeply destructive” to the military and core governm...
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Attack kills 2 US Marines
WASHINGTON — Heavily armed insurgents attacked a British air base in southern Afghanistan Friday, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding several other troops, U.S. officials said. Prince Harry, t...
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FBI: ‘Bucket List Bandit’ caught in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY — In banks from Utah to Pennsylvania this summer, a middle-aged man with grayish, thinning hair, glasses and a blue polo shirt has been demanding money from frightened tellers and off...
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Associated Press Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the Republican vice presidential candidate, returns to Capitol Hill to vote on a stopgap spending bill that avoids a government shutdown but carries a price tag $19 billion higher than the budget he wrote as chairman of the House Budget Committee, in Washington, on Thursday.
House passes 6-month spending bill
WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to put the government on autopilot for six months, precluding a shutdown through the election and postponing a potential showdown on GOP vice presidential nomi...
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Associated Press Public school teachers protest against billionaire Hyatt Hotel mogul Penny Pritzker Thursday at Chicago's Congress Plaza. Protesters said that $5.2 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds being used to build a new Hyatt hotel in Hyde Park would be better spent on meeting basic student needs.
Talks to end teachers’ strike make progress
CHICAGO — The city’s public schools will stay closed for at least one more day, but leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district kept talking Thursday, with both sides saying they ...
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