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Chess team looks to improve at state tourney

STERLING – Sterling’s fledgling chess team is hoping to make its next big play as a program this weekend. ... Read More »

Regional News

STATE LEGISLATURE Bill would limit protests at funerals

SPRINGFIELD – Protesting funerals would be harder under a bill unanimously approved Tuesday by an Illinois House committee. ... Read More »

Plan to close state facilities gets cool reception

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn's push to overhaul care for people with mental illnesses and disabilities collided Tuesday with safety concerns, money worries and maybe a bi ... Read More »

World News

District tries to restore trust in school

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When students return to the school where two teachers were jailed last week for alleged lewdness, they'll have new teachers in their classrooms, a new princ ... Read More »

Sports

Giants lauded as Super Bowl champs in NYC parade

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of fans roared as New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hoisted the team's Super Bowl trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float Tuesday during ... Read More »

Lifestyle

Teens migrating to Twitter – sometimes for privacy

CHICAGO (AP) – Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet – too public, too many older users. Not cool.That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer ... Read More »

For workers on graveyard shift, daytime is bedtime

Dear Abby: I just read the letter from a fellow frustrated night-shifter, “Working a 40-Hour Week at Age 73” (Dec. 20). I have worked 12-hour shifts for many years to accommod ... Read More »

Dining

Going Dutch in Fulton

FULTON – They came, they watched, they took notes, and they tasted. Then, hopefully, they went home and tried to make it. Nearly 50 people recently filled the Windmill Cultura ... Read More »

Community

Study targets secondhand smoke in cars

CHICAGO – Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren’t all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.I ... Read More »

Opinion

Hospice help made ordeal easier to bear

About 10 a.m. Jan. 3, I stopped at Serenity House Hospice in Oregon to see whether it had a packet of information explaining its services. My dad had recently been diagnosed w ... Read More »

Colleges, students caught in middle of tuition squeeze

Higher tuition at public universities makes a college education less affordable, but a presidential plan to hold the line on tuition is a simplistic answer to a complex problem ... Read More »

Obituaries

Death notices for Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012

Marjorie RobertsELIZABETH – Marjorie Roberts, 91, of Elizabeth, died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at Elizabeth Nursing Home.Arrangements were completed by Law-Jones Funeral Home in ... Read More »

Katherine L. Miller

MOUNT MORRIS – Katherine L. Miller, 92, a Mount Morris area resident since 1960, died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, at Pinecrest Manor Nursing Home in Mount Morris. Katherine was a ... Read More »

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