Protestors attack proposal to close city mental health clinics
By Admin on August 27, 2009
Chicago officials sought today to calm fears over the potential closings of mental health clinics, but that didn’t stop patients and advocates from staging a protest outside Mayor Richard Daley’s office.
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Exelon to pay $1M to settle leak suits
March 12, 2010
Tritium-contaminated water seeped into ground around the company’s Braidwood, Byron and Dresden plants
Exelon agreed Thursday to pay more than $1 million to settle lawsuits filed by Attorney General Lisa Madigan after the company allowed radioactive tritium to leak outside three of its nuclear power plants.
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Hawks’ Ladd: ‘Being lazy in D-zone … turned into goals’
March 12, 2010
Team knows it’s not just responsibility of goalies to limit opponents
It was team picture day for the Blackhawks on Thursday followed by an optional practice during which several players took to the ice wearing teammates’ sweaters. Andrew Ladd appeared as Jonathan Toews, Dustin Byfuglien impersonated Patrick Sharp, Adam Burish was Marian Hossa and so on.
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Suicide bombings kill 39, wound 95 in Pakistan’s Lahore, signal potential new wave of violence
March 12, 2010
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.
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Rod Blagojevich case
January 21, 2009
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