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Dorotha Jane Harrison, 88, rural Brazil, passed away at 2:35 a.m., Sunday, July 13, 2008, at St.

Retirees with plump nest eggs are attractive targets for unscrupulous financial advisers who advise them to make unwise withdrawals.

O SCAR WINNER Sidney Poitier gets a Lifetime Achievement award at the Chicago International Film Festival's Black Perspectives Tribute Oct.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Evanston Police Department.

Jack Johnson aced the 14th hole at Delaware Country Club for his second hole in one.

A Robinson, Illinois man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts involving child pornography, according to A. Courtney Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.

The following incidents were listed among official reports in the Oak Park Police Department between June 2 and Monday.

POLICE BLOTTER WEAPONS * A 17-year-old Evanston man was arrested Friday on the 100 block of Callan Avenue and charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

Avnet Technology Solutions, a value-added distributor of enterprise computing products and an operating group of Avnet, Inc., has entered into a Pan-European distribution agreement with Datamax/O'Neil, both ...

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Newly opened A Pied , which means "on foot" or "by foot" in French, fills a sorely empty niche in Roscoe Village.

Matthew D. Cruthis, 23, of the 2400 block of Randolph Street in Alton, was charged Friday in Madison County Circuit Court with unlawful possession of cannabis. via Alton Telegraph

A Vincennes man remained in Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis in fair condition Tuesday afternoon after crashing his airplane south of Palestine, Ill., on Monday evening. via Tribune-Star

A small aircraft went down Monday evening near Palestine, Ill., with injuries to its pilot, according to the Crawford County Sheriff's Department in Robinson, Ill. via Tribune-Star

'Closer': Performances through Saturday at the Riverfront Playhouse, 11-13 S. Water St. via Beacon News

“We can assign a principal wherever we want”

The fate of Wayne High School's principal remains in question after the Fort Wayne Community Schools board voted Monday to move a middle school principal into her position this summer. via Fort Wayne News Sentinel

Abraham Hunter of Vienna is the "Best of Show" winner in the Illinois segment of the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Contest, Illinois Department of Natural Resources Acting Director Sam Flood ... via Illinois Department of Natural Resources

The question of whether or not to tear down an old school gymnasium continues. A group of community members in Robinson, Illinois are working to prevent the local school board from tearing down the old high ... via WTHI-TV Terre Haute

Refineries in the U.S. Midwest run by Marathon Oil Corp., Valero Energy Corp., BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp. via Bloomberg

“My bed is an older wood frame bed, so the bed started to creak and shake, and it was almost like somebody was taking my mattress and moving it back and forth.”

Residents across the Midwest and beyond were alarmed early Friday by the earthquake that radiated from Southern Illinois and shook the entire Chicago area.

Shockwaves were felt from Michigan to Georgia.

In downstate Mt. Carmel, the epicenter of the quake, a woman was trapped in her home by a collapsed porch but was quickly freed and wasn't hurt, said Mickie Smith, a dispatcher at the police department.

Also in Mt. Carmel, a two-story apartment building was evacuated because of loose and falling bricks. Police cordoned off the building, a 1904 school converted to residences. An antenna on the roof was also bent. Read more