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DeKalb corruption probe delays sewer contract
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThe probe into possible corruption in DeKalb County contracts could end up forcing water customers there to pay more to shower or sprinkle their lawns. County commissioners last week decided to start over on finding a private company to oversee part...Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Officers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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BRIEF: County Line Road project set for this summer
Daily Gazette, Sterling, Ill.The state is planning to resurface County Line Road from Perry to Lee roads. The project, expected to take place this summer, will involve 31/2 miles on the road, which is owned by Lee County and is on the border with DeKalb County. William Charles...Tags: Pat Quinn, Travel, Illinois Governor, Transportation, DeKalb
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Thunderstorms arrive in Chicago area
Tribune reporterA flash flood watch has been issued for the Chicago area as a slow-moving weather mass brings in thunderstorms that could dump close to three inches of rain and even hail beginning this afternoon and extending overnight, according to meteorologists. An...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Floods, Chicago Weather, Weather, McHenry
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Court listings
Tyler Scott Basye, 19, of 1500 N. Main St., No. 5, possession of two ounces of marijuana or less, charge dismissed; ingesting intoxicant other than alcoholic beverage, fined $385 and sentenced to 90 days in jail with 75 days suspended. Roy Phillip...Tags: Theft, Stratford, Prisons, Punishment, Trials
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Love of music keeps Rohrersville Cornet Band playing on
davem@herald-mail.comRichard Haynes joined the Rohrersville Cornet Band when he was 15 years old and the trumpet player said the only music training he received was vocal lessons. Haynes perfected his horn on his own in the band. At 86 years old, Haynes is still playing...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Christmas, Arts and Culture, Holidays
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'Only the Mountains Do Not Move' by Jan Reynolds
Special to Tribune Newspapers"Only the Mountains Do Not Move" By Jan Reynolds Lee & Low Books, $18.95, ages 10-14 Author Jan Reynolds and her son stayed with the Il Ngwesi tribe of Maasai of Northern Kenya. The Maasai's traditional life has been based on herding cows and goats and... -
'Jackhammer Sam' by Peter Mandel
Special to Tribune Newspapers"Jackhammer Sam" By Peter Mandel, illustrated by David Catrow Roaring Brook, $16.99, ages 4-8 Jackhammer Sam, the title page pictures reveal, lives in New York City, but any sidewalk will do for a child's imagination. "ATTA-RATTA-TATTA-BAM./ D'ya know...Tags: New York City, Walt Whitman
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John Stewart Morton Jr., real estate and insurance executive, dies
John Stewart Morton Jr., a retired real estate and insurance executive, died Aug. 3 of kidney failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson.
The former Owings Mills resident was 92.
The son of a real estate broker and a homemaker, Mr....Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sociology, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), Northfield
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Community connections
Leaders and friends of Chicago's Asian American Institute, fresh from a catered lunch and a Tribune Page One meeting, were sharing ideas with the newspaper's editor and learning something about the news organization's future.
The conversation drifted...Tags: News Agency, National or Ethnic Minorities, Arts and Culture, Newspapers, Apple iPad
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Weather service warns of conditions for isolated tornadoes
The National Weather Service this morning issued a hazardous weather outlook for the Chicago area and other parts of Illinois that warns of strong to severe thunderstorms that could produce isolated tornadoes.
The storms are coming in two waves.
The...Tags: Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, Indiana, DeKalb, Porter
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Man from Springfield appears in McDonald's commerical
jscherder@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Here's a blast from the past: a local school bus from the 1950s is making an appearance in a commercial across the pond. Springfield resident Jim Lee admits he wasn't too excited at first about putting the bus on a trailer and...Tags: Google Inc., Des Plaines, McDonald's, Vehicles
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10th Anniversary of 9/11 Update on Forensic Evidence of What Rally Happened vs. The Standard Government Explanation
Staff reporterOn Saturday September 10th, William Lee, a 20 year veteran of the Air Force as a Master Sergeant will debate a September 11th Conspiracy Theorist, Lindson P. Anderson of the Northwest Information Service of Rlling Meadows, IL. The debate will take place...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Irving Park, Chicago Transit Authority
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