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Springfield police arrest 5 after car crash

SPRINGFIELD - Springfield police made five arrests Tuesday night following a high-speed chase between two cars that ended with one of the cars crashing and rolling over, coming to a stop on top of three vehicles at a car dealership. More>>

Skeletal remains found in Rochester positively identified

ROCHESTER - Illinois State Police Investigators announced Wednesday that female skeletal remains found in a residential area in Rochester have been positively identified. More>>

Federal agencies investigating downtown Springfield pipe bomb

SPRINGFIELD - A Secretary of State Police bomb squad disabled a pipe bomb after it was found outside of a downtown Springfield restaurant, and now federal agencies are investigating the incident. More>>

Ohio-based company to restore Scovill Zoo carousel

DECATUR - An Ohio company that hand-carved animal figures for a carousel at a central Illinois zoo over 10 years ago is giving those figures a touch-up this week. More>>

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Notorious Chicago officers top misconduct list
Notorious Chicago officers top misconduct list
Two members of a notorious unit of Chicago Police officers that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from suspected drug dealers were the subject of dozens of citizen complaints between 2001 and 2006. However,...More >>
Two members of a notorious unit of Chicago Police officers that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from suspected drug dealers were the subject of dozens of citizen complaints between 2001 and 2006. However, they were...More >>
Quinn: Workers' compensation rate to fall in 2015
Quinn: Workers' compensation rate to fall in 2015
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the state's workers' compensation insurance rates will drop 5.5 percent next year.More >>
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the state's workers' compensation insurance rates will drop 5.5 percent next year.More >>
Chicago mayor proposes hike in hourly minimum wage
Chicago mayor proposes hike in hourly minimum wage
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has introduced an ordinance that would gradually increase the minimum wage in the city to $13 an hour.More >>
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has introduced an ordinance that would gradually increase the minimum wage in the city to $13 an hour.More >>
Quinn signs epinephrine law for Illinois schools
Quinn signs epinephrine law for Illinois schools
A new bill signed into Illinois law says trained personnel at schools statewide will be able to administer injectable epinephrine for those appearing to have strong allergic reactions.More >>
A new bill signed into Illinois law says trained personnel at schools statewide will be able to administer injectable epinephrine for those appearing to have strong allergic reactions.More >>
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The body of a Chicago man who vanished in May when a boat caught fire in Lake Michigan has been found along the lake's southern shoreline. The Lake County Coroner's Office says the body that washed up Monday on...More >>

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Vegas victim: Crime spree was 'total terror'
Vegas victim: Crime spree was 'total terror'
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 9:36 PM EDT2014-07-31 01:36:27 GMT
Police say a suspect arrested in a deadly Las Vegas home invasion told them she fought off a woman with a screwdriver to help her partner in crime as he struggled with and fatally shot the woman's husband.More >>
A woman who was stabbed with a screwdriver while she unsuccessfully fought to save her husband from a pair of home invaders described Tuesday's deadly crime spree in Las Vegas as "total terror."More >>
Detroit police: Sleeping boy, 8, shot and killed
Detroit police: Sleeping boy, 8, shot and killed
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 9:12 PM EDT2014-07-31 01:12:20 GMT
An 8-year-old boy has died after a bullet fired from outside went through a home's wall and hit the child in bed early Wednesday, Detroit police said.More >>
Sporadic gunfire isn't an unusual sound in the Brewster Homes public housing complex in Detroit, but booming noises that shook Tenesha Higgins early Wednesday morning were way too close.More >>
Pipe break that flooded UCLA dumps 20M gallons
Pipe break that flooded UCLA dumps 20M gallons
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 8:41 PM EDT2014-07-31 00:41:23 GMT
The quiet summer campus of UCLA found itself suddenly steeped in water and chaos after a major water pipe burst and spewed some eight million gallons, stranding people in parking garages and flooding the...More >>
The rupture of a nearly century-old water main that ripped a 15-foot hole through Sunset Boulevard and turned a swath of the University of California, Los Angeles into a mucky mess points to the risks and expense many...More >>
Cinema verite documentarian Robert Drew dies at 90
Cinema verite documentarian Robert Drew dies at 90
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 8:40 PM EDT2014-07-31 00:40:40 GMT
Documentary pioneer Robert Drew has died in Connecticut at age 90.More >>
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in "Primary" and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and...More >>
Foster parent charged with murder in hot car death
Foster parent charged with murder in hot car death
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 8:27 PM EDT2014-07-31 00:27:06 GMT
A Kansas man accused of leaving his 10-month-old foster child in a hot car where she died was charged Wednesday with murder.More >>
A Kansas man accused of leaving his 10-month-old foster child in a hot car where she died was charged Wednesday with murder.More >>

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Obama takes tougher line against Gaza casualties
Obama takes tougher line against Gaza casualties
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 9:14 PM EDT2014-07-31 01:14:35 GMT
The United States is condemning Israel's shelling of a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip that was sheltering displaced Palestinians.More >>
The Obama administration condemned the deadly shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza Wednesday, using tough, yet carefully worded language that reflects growing White House irritation with Israel and the mounting...More >>
Argentina heads into default as debt talks fail
Argentina heads into default as debt talks fail
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 8:57 PM EDT2014-07-31 00:57:12 GMT
Argentina's economy minister led a last-gasp effort Wednesday to strike a deal with U.S. creditors that would prevent the South American country from slipping into default.More >>
Talks aimed at averting Argentina's second default in 13 years ended with bitter recriminations Wednesday as the South American country said it could not accept a deal with U.S. hedge fund creditors it dismisses as...More >>
Peace Corps evacuates over Ebola as 2 isolated
Peace Corps evacuates over Ebola as 2 isolated
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 8:38 PM EDT2014-07-31 00:38:23 GMT
Liberia's president late Wednesday ordered the nation's schools to shut down and most civil servants to stay home as an Ebola outbreak that already has killed more than 130 people in the country deepened.More >>
The largest recorded Ebola outbreak in history has led the U.S. Peace Corps to evacuate hundreds of volunteers from three affected West African countries, and a State Department official on Wednesday said two volunteers...More >>
Deadly Israeli strikes hit UN school, market area
Deadly Israeli strikes hit UN school, market area
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 8:26 PM EDT2014-07-31 00:26:47 GMT
A Palestinian health official says 13 people were killed after tank shells hit a U.N. school in Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks.More >>
Israeli artillery shells tore through the walls of a U.N. school crowded with sleeping war refugees and back-to-back explosions rocked a market filled with shoppers Wednesday as Israel's stepped up campaign against...More >>
Landslide hits Indian village, killing at least 18
Landslide hits Indian village, killing at least 18
Updated: Wednesday, July 30 2014 8:17 PM EDT2014-07-31 00:17:41 GMT
An Indian official says that more than 150 people are feared buried under a landslide that hit a village in western India following torrential rains.More >>
Torrential rains triggered a massive landslide that buried a remote village in western India on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people as it swept away scores of houses and possibly trapping many more people under debris,...More >>

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