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Associated Press Film critic Roger Ebert and wife, Chaz, look at a plaque dedicated to Ebert's life and achievements in front of his childhood home in Urbana, Ill., in April 2009. Through his television shows, movies reviews and essays, Ebert belonged to the world beyond nearby Urbana. But if you read the Chicago Sun-Times movie critic closely, you knew a piece of him stayed behind in the college town where he grew up.
Ebert remained close to Urbana
URBANA, Ill. — Michael Esteves wakes up every day in the spot Roger Ebert called the center of the universe, and it isn’t Chicago, New York or Cannes. Esteves owns the place, in fact. He has si...
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Toyota to build Lexus in Kentucky
GEORGETOWN — Toyota will start building the Lexus ES 350 at a factory in Georgetown, Ky., starting in 2015, producing a luxury brand vehicle for the first time in the United States. The Japanese ca...
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Failed education bills remain on radar for future session
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the last few years, Tennessee hasn’t shied away from contentious education initiatives as it seeks to remain at the forefront of education reform in the nation. U.S. Educat...
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Woman’s meningitis death boosts toll
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A southern Kentucky woman has died at a Nashville hospital of complications from fungal meningitis. Saint Thomas Hospital spokeswoman Rebecca Climer told The Tennessean 71-yea...
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Disbarred state attorney retiring from Ohio office
CINCINNATI — A prominent class-action attorney dubbed the “Master of Disaster” has informed the Ohio Supreme Court that he is retiring in the aftermath of his Kentucky disbarment. Cincinnati att...
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Spring storm brings extremes
ST. LOUIS — A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest Thursday and threatened to bring its mix of hard r...
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TBI resumes search for missing woman
PARSONS — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation sent out search dogs Thursday to look for a young woman who has been missing since she was abducted from her home a little more than two years ago. ...
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Some states dropping GED
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED high school equivalency test because of concerns that a new version coming out next year is more costly and will no...
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Associated Press Illinois Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-North Aurora, speaks with reporters during a session at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield on March 7. The Illinois Republican Party compiled a report Saturday, analyzing the problems behind its serious losses in the November elections. The report, similar to one recently released by the national GOP, comes at a time when the state party is particularly divided and debated ousting Pat Brady as its chairman.
GOP chairman avoids ouster
TINLEY PARK, Ill. — Illinois’ GOP chairman emerged from another ouster attempt Saturday and said his party must be more welcoming of diversity and inclusive of people who disagree if it’s going to...
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Associated Press Grid patterns are drawn on the lawn where Chicago police planned to begin excavating in November 2008 for more possible victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says his officers and the FBI are using high-tech equipment and two dogs trained to sniff out human remains and went to the apartment complex in March finding nothing to indicate the serial killer stashed any bodies there.
Latest search for Gacy victims comes up empty
CHICAGO — If serial killer John Wayne Gacy murdered more young men in the 1970s than the 33 whose bodies he stashed under his house or tossed in a river, detectives now know one thing for sure: He ...
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