June 19, 2013
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CUB: Illinois residents waste $1.4 billion on data plans
CHICAGO — Illinois residents using mobile phones are wasting $1.4 billion a year by signing up for the wrong cellphone data plan, according to a consumer advocacy group’s study released Tuesday. ...
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Quinn signs tough fracking regulations law
CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation giving the state the nation’s strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling. In a news release, Quinn’s office says the gove...
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Counselors available at SIU-Carbondale after student dies in weekend wreck
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Administrators are making counselors available to students at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale after a student died in a weekend traffic crash. Five others with ties...
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Illinois toddler dies when car swept into creek
MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — Authorities say a 2-year-old western Illinois boy is dead after flood waters swept his father’s car into a rain-swollen creek. Brown County Sheriff Karl Groesch says Malac...
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Retired congressman takes control of flight
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Retired Congressman Ken Gray took to the sky for a sentimental journey May 30. Gray, 88, took the controls aboard one of Black Diamond Aviation’s helicopters, allowing him a bird...
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McConnell faults Obama as foe’s albatross in 2014
LEXINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took political potshots Saturday at President Barack Obama, saying his expertise at “the blame game” allowed him to win re-election to a se...
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Proposal lists glade cress as threatened
LOUISVILLE — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a new rule that would classify the tiny Kentucky glade cress as a threatened species. The Courier-Journal reports the agency is solic...
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Mysterious bee deaths causing controversy
ST. LOUIS — One of every three bites of food we consume depends on pollination by honeybees, but these overlooked contributors to our food system are continuing to die in stubbornly perplexing ways...
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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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Associated Press Cyclists ride on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago on June 11. The city joins New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco this year in turning loose the nation's largest bike-sharing programs, Divvy, catapulting what was once a way for smaller cities to showcase their eco-friendly qualities into the mainstream transportation options of the country's very largest urban expanses.
Chicago joins bike-sharing cities
CHICAGO — The newest piece of Chicago’s vast transit puzzle will not rumble between skyscrapers on its 100-year-old elevated rail lines or utilize its fleet of hybrid buses. The city is turning to ...
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