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As the Blago circus wraps up, has it left us even more jaded? Comments July 30, 2010 By ANDRE SALLES asalles@stmedianetwork.com After months of talk show appearances, recorded bursts of profanity played ad nauseam on cable news networks and every pundit in the country trying to pronounce "Blagojevich," it's almost over.

Employers who shortchange or don't pay their employees will face stiffer penalties and workers will have more rights under a bill Gov.

The DuPage County Health Department says batches of mosquitoes in ten communities have tested positive for the West Nile virus.

In this file photo made Oct. 25, 2007, the BP logo is seen at a gas station in Washington.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained hundreds of books from the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is hoping the 12 men and women on the jury and the Almighty can deliver him from the 415 years in prison he faces in his federal corruption trial.

The University of Illinois says an instructor who recently lost his job over a complaint about his religious beliefs can continue teaching.

Jurors deciding if former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell President Barack Obama's old Senate seat were out of sight Thursday, a far more benign result for Democrats than if the corruption trial had lasted through the summer as expected while the party geared up for tough elections.By the time prosecutors and defense attorneys were ...

Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy chain, is quickly building a presence in the mid-Hudson. The company plans to open a location in Montgomery around Christmas and another at the corner of Route 32 and Route 300 in New Windsor in the fall of 2011, spokesman Jim Cohn said.

Jurors deciding the fate of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich are preparing for their first full day of deliberations in his corruption trial.

States are putting hundreds of thousands of people directly into jobs through programs reminiscent of the more ambitious work projects of the Great Depression .

Wolfeboro Supervisor of the Checklist and former police commissioner Jim Lowry, 53, pled guilty to one of three separate felony counts in the Henry County Courthouse in Cambridge, Illinois on July 20.

Rod Blagojevich is insecure, he talks a lot and he's a bad judge of character - but he is not a criminal, the ousted Illinois governor's defense attorney told jurors at his corruption trial Tuesday during a theatrical closing argument.

State officials say a former Illinois priest convicted of sexual abuse has been released after serving 16 months for a parole violation.

Actually this has been going on for a week or so. What happens is a fine mist of sap coats things beneath a tree.

State officials have started a telemedicine pilot program to treat HIV and Hepatitis C at three Illinois correctional centers and hope to expand the program.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and his wife Patti, right, leave the Federal Court building after closing arguments conclude in his corruption trial, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in Chicago.

A 2-year-old central Illinois girl is dead after being found in at the bottom of a neighbor's backyard pool.

Monday the independent blog confirmed Martina s allegations Sunday. Internet powerhouse Andy Martin draws attention to claims of pro-Pat Brady, anti-Lee Roupas activists Martin says that the latest allegations involving the Illinois Republican Partya s sex scandal, involving homosexual and heterosexual sex, arre that Mark Kirk is involved in the ...

The Blagojeviches' decision to bring their daughters to the ousted Illinois governor's trial _ both girls on Monday and just 14-year-old Amy on Tuesday _ has ignited debate about whether it was intended to help comfort the parents or sway the jury.