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Granite City dates for TV funnymen
Sutherland Northern Times
Granite City dates for TV funnymen. Comedian Russell Kane is set to perform at the Music Hall in Aberdeen. TWO TV funnymen who have both starred in sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe have scheduled gigs in Aberdeen as part of UK tours. Scot Daniel ...

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Dearduff, Opal
Herald & Review
She was born on Oct. 7, 1909, to John Hardin & Mattie Leru (Hicks) Tipps, on her parents farm near Scottville, IL. She is survived by: 1 son, Jim Dearduff (friend, Kathleen Arnold) of Litchfield; 1 daughter, Joan (Bob) Hedgcock of Decatur ...

Local golfers shine at Kokopelli
The Southern
The SIU men's golf standout trails Collinsville High School junior Keenai Sampson, who finished his round with a 1-over 72. “I feel like I struck the ball as good, if not better, than I did at the Southern Illinois Open,” Novara said. “I hit all kinds ...

Travelin' Man goes to Dallas – Part II
Crave Online (blog)
We returned in time to catch the night's next fight between unbeaten 154-pounder Vanes Martirosyan and Granite City, Illinois journeyman Ryan Davis, who sat next to me at the previous day's weigh-in. This fight's early placement on the card struck me ...

Mattoon Firecracker Classic postponed St. Anthony travel team joins field
Effingham Daily News
Post 120 falls Effingham Post 120's Senior Legion team traveled to Bethalto for a doubleheader Saturday afternoon, but only got one game in before the rains came. Bethalto downed Effingham 6-2, as Post 120 fell to 6-2. Effingham fell behind early ...

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Kids Still Feeling Effects of Recession
Alton Daily News
The recession's over? Don't tell Larry Joseph, director of the Fiscal Policy Center at Voices for Illinois Children. The latest Kids Count report shows a growing number of Illinois kids living in financially instability. “It's higher than it was,” says ...

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Alton Daily News
Summer is Bat Season
Alton Daily News
The flying mammals are Illinois' top carrier of rabies, says Dr. Connie Austin, the veterinarian for the Illinois Department of Public Health. “Summer months are usually the worst for bat exposures,” she says, “August is our biggest month of all ...

Clock Ticking on Concealed Carry
Alton Daily News
... carry law on the books in Illinois - a month later than originally planned, as Attorney General Lisa Madigan was granted a 30 day extension to decide whether to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court. State Representative Dwight Kay of Glen ...

Gearing Up For The Senior Games
Alton Daily News
Illinois has 465 old folks who will be participating in next month's Senior Games. They're all over 50, and many are over 70 or over 80, and they got there by winning the Illinois Senior Olympics in Springfield. “Every two years we have our games, and ...

Charleston ranked third best city in Illinois to raise a young family
Daily Eastern News
“I think the reason that (Charleston) made it up so high with these bigger cities is that your dollar stretches further in Charleston than it would in Edwardsville, for example,” Anderson said. “In many other cities, the median income... across the ...

Collinsville Council hears from specialist about planned post office move
Belleville News Democrat
In 1985 the building was named to the National Register of Historic places, and, most recently, the state of Illinois listed the property among the most endangered landmarks in the state. Contact reporter Jennifer A. Schaaf at jschaaf@bnd.com or 239-2667.

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UPDATE 3-Enbridge says Alberta pipelines still shut after spill
Reuters
... line as a precautionary measure on Friday after heavy flooding caused some communication issues. The 280,000 bpd Express line carries crude from Hardisty to Casper, Wyoming, while the 164,000 bpd Platte line continues to Wood River, Illinois. Stocks.

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Middletown Area School Board finalizes 2013-14 with real estate tax increase ...
Patriot-News
Middletown Area School District residents will pay more in real estate taxes for next year, but the increase isn't as much as previously expected. The Middletown Area School Board finalized a 2013-14 district budget on Monday night that will include a ...

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Preps YIR: In a class by itself
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
School's salutatorian was runner on state championship track relay and turned down offer to run track at Carnegie Mellon to study engineering in the James Scholars Honors Program at the University of Illinois. 5. ..... Laura Litchfield, ex-Champaign ...

10News
Stock market drop may cool real estate market
10News
SAN DIEGO - With the Dow Jones Industrial Average down another 139 points on Monday, 10News asked a local realtor if the recent downturn in stocks may negatively affect the local real estate market. Gary Nordstrom of McMillin Realty told 10News, "When ...

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Former police sergeant saluted by colleagues
Alton Telegraph
Other pallbearers are scheduled to be: Wood River Police Chief Otis Steward; Wood River Detective Sgt. Dan Bunt; former Wood River Police Chief William “Bubba” Webber; Billy Papa, a sheriff's deputy active with Lakin in the Madison County Police ...

Former police sergeant saluted by colleagues
Alton Telegraph
A U.S. Navy veteran, he had been a member of the Madison County Police Association, a life-member of the Illinois Police Association and Illinois Police Benevolent Association, the former president and an officer of the Wood River Lions Club, and a ...

Former police sergeant saluted by colleagues
Alton Telegraph
Burial will follow in Rose Lawn Memory Gardens in Bethalto. Memorials may be made to the Wood River Lions Club, P.O. Box 531, Wood River, IL 62095 or the Madison County Police Association. Marks Mortuary in Wood River is in charge of arrangements.

Over 1-Million Sockeye Harvested in Bristol Bay on Sunday
KDLG
The escapement goal for the Wood River is between 700-thousand to 1.5-million sockeye. Another 93.8-thousand sockeye were counted as escapement to the Nushagak River on Sunday to push the season total to 462.4-thousand fish. That's within the ...

KSDK
Illinois farmers hit hard by flooding
KSDK
Glen Carbon, Ill. produces grain, soybeans, and is one of the producers of 60 percent of the horseradish crop that is developed in Illinois and sent all over the world. Part of that crop has been destroyed from all of the flooding this year in Illinois ...