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Crews, cops have hands full
Alton Telegraph
Jeff Dublo of Fred's Towing in Alton hooks up to an Alton city snowplow Monday after it got stuck in a ditch on Wilkinson Street near Mills Street. City crews were working valiantly to clear the more than 12 inches of snow from primary and secondary ...

On April 9, SHARE will go live with a new automation system known as Polaris, giving Edwardsville Public Library patrons access to a much larger catalog of items then ever before.

CBS2 Chicago
Final storm tally for Springfield, Ill.: 18 inches of snow
Evansville Courier & Press
Many universities called off classes, too, including Illinois State University in Normal, the University of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville's three campuses and the University of Illinois campuses in both Urbana-Champaign and Springfield. In Urbana ...
Tom Kacich: Pension reform OK'd, but not by downstate officialsChampaign/Urbana News-Gazette

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Final storm tally for Springfield, Ill.: 18 inches of snow
Evansville Courier & Press
Ameren Illinois' website reported more than a thousand scattered customers lost electricity. The largest concentration was about 1,400 in the Collinsville area. With temperatures forecast to reach 40 degrees by Wednesday and climb as high as 55 degrees ...

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Area residents found it as difficult to get to their cars Monday morning as they did cleaning them off after what seemed like an all-day snow shower dumped 12 inches of flakes on the area.

Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons plans to appeal an Illinois Appellate Court decision that overturned Olutosin Oduwole’s conviction on charges that he threatened a murderous rampage at SIUE

Younger buyers jumping into retirement real estate
NBCNews.com (blog)
Charlie Rocque knows a great real estate deal when he sees one — at one of the largest retirement communities in the nation, Century Village in Boca Raton, Fla. "I bought an apartment that not long ago was valued at around $75,000, and I picked it up ...

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The Province
Mike Holmes: Spring season signals home maintenance
The Province
Ask a lot of questions, and check out the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation fact sheet, Hiring a Home Inspector. Catch Mike Holmes in his new series, Holmes Makes It Right Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on HGTV. For more information, visit hgtv.ca. For more ...

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Transportation Nation
Real Estate Tip: Buy Near Transit
Transportation Nation
Homes close to good transit options made for better real estate investments during the recession, according to a new study from the American Public Transportation Association. APTA looked at housing market data from Phoenix, Boston, San Francisco, ...

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The Province
Shell Busey: Home purchase takes patience
The Province
Have the house, new or used, inspected by a certified, licensed home inspector. If it's an older, detached home with lots of trees, have the perimeter drainage system inspected by camera as a condition of the offer. When purchasing your first home, be ...

Downtowns: What's Behind America's Most Surprising Real Estate Boom
Forbes
One of the main factors businesses consider when deciding on where to relocate or expand is the available pool of college-educated workers. And that has cities competing for college-educated young adults. “The American population, contrary to popular ...

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Granite City probe into licensees background won't expand
STLtoday.com
A Granite City administrator said he'd changed his mind about a proposal to require nearly all business license applicants to undergo a criminal background check. Granite City Building and Zoning Administrator Steve Willaredt last week said he withdrew ...

Granite City probe into licensees background won't expand
STLtoday.com
In Edwardsville and Collinsville, applicants for business licenses do not have criminal background checks, according to city Web sites. The Granite City Council passed an ordinance in August 2012 requiring Illinois State Police criminal conviction ...

Refinery Status: Exxon Has Compressor Problem at -2-
Fox Business
The compressor problem caused the refinery to send sulfur dioxide gas to be sent to the 250,000 barrel-a-day refinery's flare for burning, according to the filing with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. Husky Energy Inc. (HUSKF, HSE.T) said ...

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Oak Ridge Today
Esther Leota Simes O'Bleness
Oak Ridge Today
She is survived by daughter-in-law, Marilyn O'Bleness of Oak Ridge; grandchildren, Michael (Tammy) O'Bleness and daughter Alexis, of Maryland, and Nancy (Greg) Bradley and daughters Allison and Rebecca, of Maryville; Edie (Daniel) Parsons and sons ...

Miller: Quinn irritating legislators over university board moves
SouthtownStar
A recent meeting between Metro East legislators and Gov. Pat Quinn's staff turned heated at times, and as a result nothing was accomplished in the standoff over Quinn's appointments to the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees. ... Bill Haine ...

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CBS2 Chicago
17-inch spring snowstorm sets Springfield record
Peoria Journal Star
... afternoon in the snow. A Spring snowstorm hit the Springfield and the Central Illinois area on Sunday, March 24, 2013, with a late morning bulletin by the National Weather Service forecasting accumulations of between 6-10 inches possible, along ...
Spring snowstorm ices roads in central IllinoisWTHI

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DA Wants Terror Threat Conviction Reinstated
Courthouse News Service
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (CN) - A prosecutor wants to appeal a state appellate court's release of a former Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville student who was accused of making a terrorist threat. Olutosin Oduwole, 27, was released from prison last ...
Gibbons wants Oduwole ruling overturnedThe Edwardsville Intelligencer
Olutosin Oduwole: Should Student Who Wrote of "Murderous Rampage" Remain ...Riverfront Times (blog)

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Roads Cleared, But Still Slick After Biggest Storm In 30 Years
fox2now.com
COLLINSVILLE, IL (KTVI) – IDOT crews were out all night long into Monday morning trying to get roads clear on the Illinois side of the river. IDOT spokesperson Joe Monroe says all state roads are passable, but there are some sketchy areas. Monroe says ...

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