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- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS -- Once the sermons end today, parish members in a number of Southern Illinois churches are likely to hear a rather obvious reminder from the pastors: |
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- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS -- From the state's Supreme Court to the Circuit Court, voters heading to the polls Tuesday will have a number of choices to make when it comes to the judiciary branch of Illinois government. |
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- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS -- They're orange, they're round, and they produced $81 million in domestic revenue for the United States in 2003. |
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- DE SOTO -- De Soto residents will vote Tuesday on a tax referendum question asking them to approve an increase in the village real estate tax levy. |
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- MOUNT VERNON -- It's official. Mount Vernon will get a full-blown interchange instead of an overpass over Interstate 57 at Veterans Drive, about a mile south of the Illinois 15 interchange. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Do not wipe your eyes or double-check it on the Internet. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Mapquest.com says it is 607.13 miles from Boutte, La., to McAndrew Stadium. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Look at the box score of Southern Illinois University's 66-13 win over Western Illinois University and the first thing you see is the offensive numbers the Salukis put up. |
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- Scott Coffman enjoyed Saturday's 66-13 win by Southern Illinois University over Western Illinois. |
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- WEST FRANKFORT -- The West Frankfort Redbirds started slowly and that proved to be the fatal flaw in a 21-7 loss to Mount Carmel in opening round action of the Class 4A football playoffs. |
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- NEWTON -- Herrin's Kyle Walker didn't exactly know where he was late in the Tigers' Class 4A playoff opener in Newton, but when he got the football at the 46-yard line, he knew enough. |
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- CAHOKIA -- A dominating second half performance by Cahokia's backfield ran the Comanches through Carbondale and into the second round of the IHSA playoffs Saturday night. |
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- DU QUOIN -- The Indians ended Anna-Jonesboro's season Saturday as Du Quoin set the stage for a rematch with Nashville in the second round of the playoffs with a 44-20 thrashing of the Wildcats. |
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- CARTERVILLE -- Any hopes of an Eldorado upset were dashed on the first play of Carterville's 43-8 win over the Eagles Saturday in an IHSA Class 3A playoff game. |
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- JOHNSTON CITY -- The Johnston City Indians pulled out their first playoff win since 1995, defeating the Dupo Tigers in a 22-21 nail-biter. |
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- BENTON -- Southern Illinois fared well in the boys Class A cross country sectional, but it was a tough day for the girls. |
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- MURPHYSBORO -- The Lady Red Devils got past the Marion in three games, 25-21, 18-25, 25-21, to win the Murphysboro Regional in prep volleyball on Saturday. |
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- The jolting news that surgeons operated Saturday on Chief Justice William Rehnquist for thyroid cancer brought to mind an important issue that hasn't received enough attention this campaign: What's going to happen to the U.S. Supreme Court over the next four years? |
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- As we all know by now, Illinoisans really do not matter. Barring a convulsion of the political landscape, we will watch next Tuesday as Ohioans, Floridians, Iowans, Pennsylvanians and folks in a few other states choose our president. We have merited only the faintest of blips on the Kerry and Bush radar screens from the get-go, and we likely will find ourselves among the great ignored in 2008 and beyond unless we seriously consider changes in state election law -- one of them particularly dramatic. |
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- Are you tired of info-tainers totally blurring the line between news and entertainment? Fed up with feuding TV spin doctors passing for reasoned debate? Is that your problem, Bunky? |
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- Without knowing -- or even being able to make a confident guess -- who will win Tuesday's presidential election, let me say for the record that this has been one of the best and most exciting White House battles I've ever covered. |
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- Voters in the 59th State Senate district have witnessed a tough and expensive campaign between candidates Gary Forby and Ron Summers that turned negative, unnecessarily, almost from the start. That is unfortunate as the 59th District voters deserve to hear about what the candidates would do in the next four years as a member of the Legislature, and less about nit-picking over past, irrelevant issues. |
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- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS -- Jane picks up her paycheck after work on Friday night and goes grocery shopping before making her bank deposit on Saturday morning. |
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- CARBONDALE -- West Hickory Street in Carbondale doesn't have the abundance of small markets that used to sit in the neighborhood. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Dining in Carbondale will be expanding with the opening of Houlihan's Restaurant, 2310 Reed Station Parkway. |
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- MURPHYSBORO -- A Ladies Night celebration couldn't be a celebration without chocolate. |
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- CARBONDALE -- When Dee McKinnies and Nolan Williamson decided to surprise their boss, they called The Southern Illinoisan to announce the 40th anniversary of Jerry's Flower Shoppe, which opened on Oct. 15, 1964. |
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- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS -- The ghost stories of a region are the remnants of an oral tradition, a chronicle of persons and events that are chillingly recounted for generations. |
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- MOUND CITY -- There are at least four different ghosts in the Pulaski County Courthouse, which was built in 1911. |
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- So my wife and I went to this meeting at our daughter's preschool. The purpose was to give us helpful information about our kindergarten options. |
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- DETROIT -- The Fitter family gathers around a video screen, listening to a Holocaust survivor describe the horrific conditions of Dachau concentration camp. The youngest -- a 6-year-old boy -- skips around the others, pointing his finger like a gun at the images of menacing Nazi soldiers on walls inside the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Mich. |
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- Hejsa...! Jeg har en computer hvor til jeg for et par år siden købte en XP OEM udgave. Ifølge hvad jeg har kunne læse mig til så skal softwaren følge den computer som man køber den til når det er en oem udgave, altså dør computeren gør softwaren det også. På den anden side må man jo gerne opgradere sin computer med f.eks. |
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- Body found confirmed to be the Japanese hostage The headless corpse found Saturday in Baghdad has turned out to be the Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, who was kidnapped in Iraq last week, Japan’s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said on Sunday. On Tuesday, a group kidnapped Koda in Iraq and threatened to ... |
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- MSNBC - Breaking to Bush? It's still a statistical dead heat, but a new Newsweek poll gives Bush a boost (Newsweek) After months of the tightest presidential election contest in recent memory, a new NEWSWEEK poll suggests momentum may be moving toward President George W. Bush. As the bitter campaign ... |
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- In Video Message, Bin Laden Issues Warning to U.S. (NYT) In a new videotape televised Friday, Osama bin Laden made a direct, formal address to the American people, saying that the best way for Americans to avoid a repeat of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, was to stop threatening Muslims' ... |
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- Bron: Binnenlands Bestuur |
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- Bron: Volkskrant weblog |
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