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Associated Press Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn visits with Kristi Goodin and Zachary Zimerman, both U.S. Army National Guard specialists who met in Iraq, and their 4-month-old son, Wyatt Zimerman on Dec. 14 in Chicago. As younger military veterans stream back into Illinois from Iraq and Afghanistan, Illinois faces a challenge as it tries to make them more of a priority in a time of desperately tight budgets. The state has been increasing the amount it spends on veterans services in recent years. But the bulk of that money is spent on older veterans while many younger soldiers and National Guard troops are returning to a difficult economy looking for help with jobs and training.
Illinois grappling with younger veterans’ needs
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As younger military veterans stream back into Illinois from Iraq and Afghanistan, the state faces a challenge as it tries to make them more of a priority in a time of desperately ...
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16 apply for Louisville police chief post LOUISVILLE — Louisville officials have 16 candidates to review in finding the city’s next police chief. The application process closed Dec. 15, with...
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Louisville pipe organ company staying busy
LOUISVILLE — A Louisville business is the largest service company for pipe organs in the region. Miller Pipe Organ has customers in 22 states from Kentucky to Texas and services about 400 pipe o...
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Danville tries new method
DANVILLE — A high school in central Kentucky is one of five in the nation experimenting with one of the hottest education trends, student-centered learning. Danville High School was selected by ...
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Historians use divining rods to find cemeteries
EAGLEVILLE, Tenn. — John Lodl often heard Rutherford County’s old-timers talk of the divining rods, swearing by their eerie movements as proof positive of bodies buried below. No headstone, no m...
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Amid the holidays, pickpockets ply ancient trade
By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO — It’s a dying art on America’s city streets, a bit of sleight-of-hand straight out of Charles Dickens’ London. And yet on the final shopping and tra...
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Greenup school gets ‘Incredible Hulk’ weights
Associated Press LLOYD — Weights that were custom-made for “The Incredible Hulk” are now helping eastern Kentucky high school athletes shape up. The weights were made for Lou Ferrigno after h...
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Illinois to create independent tax appeal tribunal
By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Tucked away in a law Gov. Pat Quinn signed earlier this month to grant tax relief to major corporations is a provision that supporters sa...
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300 soldiers return on Christmas eve FORT KNOX— Hundreds of soldiers stationed at Fort Knox have returned from Afghanistan just in time for Christmas. Army officials say 300 soldiers with the...
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Fish living in once-dead creek near bomb plant
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — For decades at the Y-12 National Security Complex in East Tennessee, mercury from making hydrogen bombs flowed into East Fork Poplar Creek. After its atomic bomb making in Wor...
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