Daily headlines

July 2007

Tuesday, July 31:

• Unfenced pools cause citizen concern

• $1.38 billion sale of state's student loan portfolio complete
  ISAC deal will help agency pay off debt, focus on making college more affordable for Illinois students

• Gov. Blagojevich marks 17th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act

• Chief Justice Roberts suffers seizure

• Would-be shoe-bomber has no regrets

• Boy Scouts injured by lightning strike

• Fixing Iraq logistics system a challenge

• Iraqi premier faces revolt within party

• U.N. nuke team says N. Korea cooperative

• Taliban issue another hostage deadline

• Clinton mentions Democratic spat

• City fights gangs with symphonies

• Man rows to work, leaving car behind

• Burglars lower themselves into store

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Letter: Critical deadline looms for Illinois' overdue budget

• GM has profit after big loss a year ago

• Study: Many boomers lack retirement fund

• Shaky time for Bush economic aides

• Wheat falls; oats, corn rise

• Weekly Outlook: Soybean basis

• 4-H Dog Show

• 4-H Home Beautification Show

• 4-H Crops Show

• 4-H Miscellaneous

• 4-H Vegetable & Fruit Gardening Show

• 4-H Visual Arts

• 4-H Cat Show

• Commission to help locals plan Lincoln Bicentennial events
  Thursday conference will prepare communities to celebrate the 16th president's 200th birthday

• LCHS student activity meeting for parents

• Head Start preschool program enrollment open

• Report: Skipping doses could be deadly

• Tips to help patients take meds properly

• Exercise, caffeine fight skin cancer

• Rowand homers in Phillies win over Cubs

• Bonds, A-Rod and Glavine aim for history

• NL roundup: Phillies close gap in NL East

• AL roundup: Baker goes 8 innings as Twins top Royals

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Former 49ers coach Bill Walsh dead at 75

Monday, July 30:

• Certificate of need in place to open cottages at Lincoln Estates

• Gov. Blagojevich signs important legislation as part of strong bipartisan push to bring FutureGen to Illinois
  Part of coordinated campaign to bring world's cleanest coal plant to Illinois

• Statement from Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich on lack of quorum

• Recall information

• Survey: Gas prices down 17 cents

• Lawmakers agree on water projects bill

• Atlantic tropical storms have doubled

• Iraq not maintaining U.S.-funded project

• Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman dies at 89

• Taliban deadline for hostages passes

• Chavez accuses former oil officials

• Religion looms large over 2008 race

• Obama calls for shift in diplomacy

• Gingrich predicts Clinton-Obama ticket

• Illinois town tries to ketchup to record

• Pennsylvania man survives 2nd lightning strike

• Florida man, 88, collects Eagle Scout honor

• NYC selling 500 pounds of foreign coins

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• 57 days of overtime... and counting

• Wall Street faces down spending, jobs data

• Sticky mess, aphids and aphid eaters
  By John Fulton

• GMO seeds benefit environment

• On earth...: Looks can be deceiving

• Study: Capsules may help diabetics

• LCHS student activity meeting for parents

• Lincoln Legion wins district tournament

• Ripken, Gwynn inducted into Hall of Fame

• NL roundup: Carlos Zambrano cruises to 14th win

• AL roundup: Angels complete sweep of Tigers

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Tony Stewart dominates at the Brickyard

• Vick's former coach unsure how he feels

• LPGA Tour: Natalie Gulbis wins Evian Masters

• Contador wins scandalous Tour de France

Saturday, July 28:

• Slurry and seal coat of city streets continues

• The return of: Logan County Most Wanted

• TV news helicopters collide, killing 4

• Granite City baby sitter charged with pimping

• Champaign  crime spree casts doubt on police chases

• American Airlines cited over safety at O'Hare

• Congress moves to rewrite patent laws

• Papers losing real estate ads to online

• YouTube preps video fingerprinting

• 1 killed in Wisconsin air show crash

• Coin dealer carries $1.9M dime in pocket

• Man burns down trailer in online feud

• Badge returned to deputy after 30 years

• Man charged with collection plate theft

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Court news

• (No marriage license reports)

• Dissolutions

• Dow, S&P have worst week in 5 years

• Business wrap-up: Mortgage woes no surprise

• Aquafina source is same as for tap

• Wheat, corn rise on Chicago Board of Trade

• Evangelicals start push in the arts

• Military brass band performance to precede Aug. 7 flag lowering ceremony at Lincoln Tomb

• Central Illinois conductor returns from Eastern European tour

• Home Country: It's all in how you say it

• Pharmacists sue over morning-after pill

• Lincoln Junior High baseball tryouts

• Full field for Illinois Junior Girls' Golf Championship

• Summer No-Tap

• From the farm to the big leagues: Jeremy Accardo

• Bonds hits 754th homer, 1 behind Aaron

• Brewers bat around twice in romp against Cardinals

• Reds beat Cubs with run in the 9th

• White Sox beat Blue Jays 4-3

• NL roundup: Bonds now 1 HR away from Aaron's record

• AL roundup: Lofton's return to Cleveland a big hit

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Nike suspends Vick contract without pay

• LPGA Tour: D'Alessio, Hong share lead at Evian

• Time trial may decide Tour de France

• Tour owner wants cycling chief to resign

Friday, July 27:

• St. Jude fundraiser to offer all-day activities in downtown Lincoln Saturday

• Power interrupted by vehicular accident

• Emden spur work to begin
  Road closure notification

• Bridge project completed in Broadwell Township

• Congressman Ray LaHood announces he will not seek re-election
  Will retire in January 2009 at conclusion of 110th Congress

• Statement regarding LaHood retirement

• Gov. Blagojevich applauds passage of legislation continuing strong bipartisan push to bring FutureGen to Illinois

• Illinois shooting kills 2, wounds 3

• States seek to curb deer-related crashes

• Senate nears approval of security bill

• Alleged drug trafficker indicted

• Rocket explosion at Mojave airport kills 3

• Threatened chestnuts now spreading again

• Product recalls

• Taliban negotiate for Korean hostages

• U.K. terror charges dropped; doctor freed

• Researchers find evidence of hidden city

• Senators worried about TV 'train wreck'

• Obama calls for uniter in White House

• FCC chair: Fairness doctrine not needed

• Analysis: Democrats aim high in agenda

• Wisconsin boy's lemonade stand robbed

• Falling ice chunks hit Iowa neighborhood

• Dentist wins case over tusks in mouth

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Sen. Brady votes against utility rate settlement

• Economy rebounds smartly

• Stocks set to flat open after big plunge

• Food in botulism recall still being sold

• Grains rise, livestock mostly fall

• Tour two farms with mixed organic crops and livestock

• House Dems try to unite on farm bill

• A glance at farm bill spending

• Two upcoming opportunities to donate blood

• Holy Ground Coffee House events scheduled through December

• Group to issue guidelines to prevent surgery fires

• Legion baseball team in tournament

• Thursday NASCAR 3

• Summer Super Four

• NL roundup: Utley breaks hand in Phillies loss

• AL roundup: Ramirez hits 'monumental' home run

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Vick pleads not guilty of dogfighting

• Mahan shoots 62 to lead Canadian Open

• 3-way tie at Evian Masters

• Rasmussen leaves stain on Tour de France

Thursday, July 26:

• Local businesses get opportunity to buy electricity at a lower rate

• Illinois student accused of terrorist threat

• Governor's statement on health care committee vote

• Oil executives deny gas overcharging

• Experts praise airport security warning

• Four suspicious airport incidents

• U.S.: Attackers in Iraq have improved aim

• Raul, not Fidel, to mark Revolution Day

• Democrats push new Iraq withdrawal bill

• Obama tries to turn Clinton words on her

• Swimming pool and water stolen from yard

• Woman finds 3-foot python in cabinet

• Oscar the cat predicts patients' deaths

• Hey, does this water taste funny to you?

• ExxonMobil sends man 2,000 credit cards

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Test your knowledge of online scams

• Analysts say mortgage woes may worsen

• Review: Sharing live video by cell phone

• Ford surprises Wall St. with 2Q earnings

• U.S. sponsors of Tour de France hang on

• Wheat, soybeans fall on Chicago Board of Trade

• Workshops offered on diverse topics -- from soap-making to organic feed for orangutans

• Eagle Scout service project breakfast fundraiser Sunday

• Study: Rural students better in science

• Red, White & True Mysteries: Who were Fahrenheit, Celsius, Doppler and Richter?

• Seven Illinois counties now reporting West Nile virus

• Study: Obesity is 'socially contagious'

• Wednesday NASCAR

• NL roundup: Glavine on brink of 300th career win

• AL roundup: Raburn steps right in for Sheffield

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Briggs agrees to 1-year deal with Bears

• Vick to enter plea on conspiracy charges

• Tour de France resumes without Rasmussen

Wednesday, July 25:

• No audit
  County looking at new financial software

• Chamber to host additional energy meeting

• National:

  • General: Al-Qaida making new cells in U.S.

  • Dems taking all-or-nothing view on Iraq

  • House Democrats divided over farm bill

  • Iraq vet shows off bionic hand

  • Airports warned about terror dry runs

  • Air traffic operators fault maintenance

  • Tax exempts owe $1 billion in taxes

  • Front-yard veggies improve diets, homes

  • MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders

  • Voracious jumbo squid invade California

  • Odd: Rats and cats work to sniff out mines

• International:

  • Taliban threatens South Korean hostages

  • Libya hopes for breakthrough with West

• Politics:

  • Obama debate comments set off firestorm

• Today:

  • This day in history

  • The nation's weather

• Sen. Brady asks citizens what they think about budget

• Stocks poised to rebound after sell-off

• Tobacco may be put under FDA control

• SEC debating shareholder proposals

• Markets: Wheat, soybeans, corn rise

• Oasis update

• What does faith do?

• Study: Reading, math get more time

• WL-B baseball tryouts scheduled

• Major League Baseball:

  • Cubs help Zambrano win NL-leading 13th

  • Orioles send Ripken to Hall in style

  • NL roundup: Biggio hits grand slam as Astros win

  • AL roundup: Gagne, Jenks post saves in doubleheaders

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

• NFL: Falcons accede to NFL request over Vick

• Tour de France:

  • Tour de France riders stage protest

  • Armstrong may appear at Tour de France

Tuesday, July 24:

• Advocates for independent living for people with disabilities protest state's application to reopen Lincoln Estates

• Illinois to be smoke-free Jan. 1

• Illinois bans smoking in public places

• National:

  • Drew Carey will host 'Price Is Right'

  • NHTSA: Highway deaths decline

  • Poll: Coastal residents won't evacuate

  • Ammo industry prepares for slide

  • Plane lands on Wisconsin highway

  • Lightning kills diver off Florida coast

  • Man must pay partnered ex-wife alimony

  • Odd: Couple locked up boy during Packers game

  • Odd: Man claims he found fried mouse in chips

  • Odd: Victim and thief meet again at bookstore

• Politics: YouTube questions take a different tack

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• U.S. stocks head toward flat open

• Westinghouse to build China nuke plants

• Researchers hack into iPhone via Web

• Wal-Mart to cut prices on 16,000 items

• Weekly Outlook: Cattle

• Markets: Soybean, corn prices down; livestock up

• USDA sent $1.1B to deceased farmers

• Double-nosed calf appears at Wisconsin fair

• All young people are created equal
  Field trip grants to visit Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum available to Illinois schools and groups that serve low-income youth

• State health director warns consumers of food-borne illness
  Expanded recall now includes almost 100 varieties of canned goods

• Study: Diet soda linked to heart risks

• Is chemo best before or after surgery?

• What you don't understand could kill you

• Circumcision key to curbing AIDS spread

• Redbirds No. 9 in CSN Preseason Top-25

• Major League Baseball:

  • White Sox: Hessman lifts Tigers following call-up

  • NL roundup: Harang goes 10 innings in Reds win

  • AL roundup: Lester wins in emotional return to Bosox

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

• Tour de France: Rasmussen clings to Tour de France lead

Monday, July 23:

• 'Rescue Me'
  Logan County emergency rescue teams at the ready

  • 'Rescue Me' - pictures

• 'Breakfast on a Stick' competition to debut at state fair

• National:

  • Potter magic: Book breaks sales records

  • Federal minimum wage to rise on Tuesday

  • Congress acts on student loan debt

  • Apparent power outage traps 200 in Arch

  • UAW to hold talks with Ford, GM

  • Official takes blame for passport mess

  • Astronauts toss station's space junk

  • Report: Plane lighter ban to be lifted

  • Tiny dog saves baby from rattlesnake

  • Odd: N.Y. drunk driver runs over friend

  • Odd: College application causes bomb scare

• Politics: Sen. McCain vows to repeal the AMT

• International:

  • Taliban raises demands for 23 Koreans

  • Last king of Afghanistan dies at 92

• Recall information

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• New processors present problems, payoff

• Netflix to lower online DVD rental fees

• Program is cash cow for cell phone companies

• U.S. autoworker faces changed industry

• U.S. stocks head for flat open

• Cicada killer wasps a beneficial insect
  It's almost fair time
  By John Fulton

• 4-H Foods Show winners, state delegates and alternates

• Christian volunteers oversee court cases

• FDA expands its warning about the risk of botulism poisoning from certain Castleberry's food products and dog food

• Legion baseball

• Bowling:

  • Summer Friday No-Tap

  • Thursday NASCAR-Ball

• Golf:

  • Ogilvie wins U.S. Bank for 1st PGA title

  • Harrington wins British Open in playoff

• Major League Baseball:

  • NL roundup: Chip Ambres lifts Mets past Dodgers

  • AL roundup: Yankees keep scoring against Devil Rays

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

• Line drive kills minor league coach

• Tour de France: Rasmussen widens lead at Tour de France

Saturday, July 21:

• Bizarre Friday the 13th find in Chatham

• Chamber to host additional energy meeting

• State Fire Marshal's Office provides computers, training enabling to local fire departments to report and record vital fire information
  Emden Fire Protection District a recipient

• Governor's Illinois Covered affordable health care plan gains Illinois congressional support
  Key Democratic members of Illinois' congressional delegation urge House Speaker Madigan and Senate President Jones to pass Illinois Covered

• National:

  • Bush cedes powers to VP for colonoscopy

  • Drug officials note cocaine shortage

  • Fans finally get Harry Potter book

  • Shell ordered to suspend Arctic drilling

  • Fans trash Beatles tune use in diaper ad

  • Easy-Bake toy ovens recalled again

  • Ohio man tells of Hawaii shark attack

  • Odd: Fox attacks restaurant worker in Md.

• International:

  • Generals: Troops need to stay in Iraq

  • Taliban claims to kill 2 German hostages

  • Volcano in Tanzania erupts spews lava

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Court news

• Marriages

• (No dissolutions)

• Senate week in review

• Gov. Blagojevich signs bill to extend special education services for students with disabilities

• Stocks fall after Dow, S&P 500 records

• Caterpillar 2Q profit falls 21 percent

• Web video sites mined by talent scouts

• Google to bid on wireless airwaves

• Gas prices fall, oil retreats below $76

• Market: Wheat, corn, soybeans fall on Chicago Board of Trade

• House approves $11.4 million for Illinois agricultural research and conservation projects

• Here I Am, Send Me: Forgiveness unleashed

• August activities at St. Peter Lutheran Church

• Home Country: Cat lesson: lessen

• Shortage of doctors affects rural U.S.

• Man to leave hospital with heart device

• Morgan horse demonstration July 28 at Lincoln's New Salem

• Which U.S. president is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame?
  Two weeks to historic wrestling and temperance demonstrations

• Legion baseball

• Summer Super Four

• NBA:

  • Kobe Bryant won't say much about Lakers

  • FBI probes whether NBA ref bet on games

• Golf: Sergio out front, Tiger limps at Open

• Major League Baseball:

  • Cubs beat Arizona 6-2; on 19-5 tear

  • NL roundup: Bonds remains at 753; Cubs win again

  • AL roundup: Carmona, Indians hold off Rangers 3-2

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

• NASCAR: IRL's Hornish pondering jump to NASCAR

• NFL: PETA tells NFL to 'Sack Vick'

• Tour de France: Suspicion dogs cyclist Rasmussen at Tour

Friday, July 20:

• City passes appropriations for 2007-2008 fiscal year

• $12.5 million in federal funds for anti-drug, prosecution and victim assistance programs throughout Illinois

• Last U.S. horse slaughter plant to reopen

• U.S. meat labels to note country of origin

• China says U.S. food has its own problems

• Senate passes bill to boost student aid

• Vendors pitch new foods to schools

• Chicago mayor wins control of police

• Body found in jetliner's wheel well

• Endangered species decisions re-examined

• Archaeologists dig up Roman bath complex

• Everybody's a winner in car promotion

• Cheese truck fire makes freeway fondue

• Woman steals Arkansas library's fine money

• Woman finds black widow spider in grapes

• Obama: Don't stay in Iraq over genocide

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Study: Plug-in hybrids may cut emissions

• Review: Playing the iPhone market

• Corn, wheat prices slip

• 2008 cash rents

• Lincoln Community High School announces registration for new school year

• State public health director issues warning about food-borne illness linked to canned goods

• Virtual Army Experience comes to River City Air Expo

• Three free Peoria Municipal Band concerts announced
  July 25 on the Peoria riverfront, July 27 at Shoppes at Grand Prairie and July 29 at Glen Oak Park

• Celebrating Route 66, the Mother Road
  Special tour of Kit-Cat and Friends Great All-American Road Show highlights 75th anniversary icons

• Mustang tournament

• 'Classy' teams take home highest WBCA honor off the court
  Lincoln College makes top 20 in JC/CC

• Golf: Sergio Garcia leads British Open

• Major League Baseball:

  • Andruw Jones leads Braves over Cards

  • Cardinals' Carpenter to undergo Tommy John surgery

  • Cubs-Giants: Bonds homers twice to close in on Aaron

  • Cubs send Izturis, cash to Pirates

  • White Sox make wild Dice-K, Red Sox pay

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

Thursday, July 19:

• County moves ethanol plant forward
  Return of delayed audit anticipated

• Independent survey shows public strongly behind governor's Illinois Covered health care plan

• FDA warns consumers about risk of botulism poisoning from hot dog chili sauce marketed under a variety of brand names

• Bush creates import safety panel

• Government does U-turn on green cards

• Some asbestos found after NYC pipe blast

• Defense contractor settles $8M claim

• No divorce for husband, missing wife

• 7 kids removed from squalid Texas home

• Vandals attack man's Hummer, leave note

• Thousands of bees won't leave man's home

• Metal chunk crashes through N.J. roof

• Truck slams into Pennsylvania homes

• Lunch bag leads to office evacuation

• Teens allegedly taunt hippos and survive

• 'Goose Whisperer' bonds with park birds

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Computer system used to fight meth

• Benefactor helps Louisiana couple keep home

• Nominations for Best Boss of 2006 now being accepted

• Ooma Inc. offers free domestic calls

• Agriculture futures rise on Chicago Board of Trade

• Lincoln Community High School student receives scholarship in national ASABE High School Multimedia Competition
  How our lives would be different today if not for the last century of advances in agricultural, food and biological systems engineering 

• Mueller named vice president of enrollment management at Lincoln College

• Children's picture book seminar

• Red, White & True Mysteries: An 1859 murder leads to the invention of a new legal maneuver

• Here I Am, Send Me: An encounter with Christ

• Telepsychiatry to aid in treatment of rural psychiatric patients on Medicaid

• Third human case of West Nile virus identified in Illinois

• Company creates combustible tattoo ink

• Survey finds many docs stress over mistakes

• Texas man battles flesh-eating bacteria

• Legion baseball at Mount Zion

• Wednesday NASCAR-Ball

• Golf: Tiger tied for lead at British Open

• Major League Baseball:

  • Cubs' Lee ends appeal, serves suspension

  • NL roundup: Zambrano gets his 12th victory for Cubs

  • AL roundup: Yanks win, Bosox lose as AL East tightens

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

Wednesday, July 18:

• Severe weather possible Wednesday afternoon and evening

• Fewer fatalities on Illinois roadways this year's July 4th weekend

• 195 feared dead in Brazil plane crash

• Nukes designed with quakes in mind

• In buried lake, hope seen for Darfur

• Trying process for families of missing

• Audits will gauge print, online readers

• N.H. chestnut tree may rebirth species

• Teen claims spiders alerted her to fire

• Fire crew tests skills on wrong house

• Inmates accused in name copyright scheme

• 130-year-old outhouses yield artifacts

• Oprah Winfrey to raise money for Obama

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Report: Anti-gang strategy failing badly

• Corn, soybeans fall on Chicago Board of Trade

• Support group explores divorce-related topics
  'Moving On, Growing Closer to God'

• 'What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms, and Pajamas'

• Culture Artist: Energy from the sun

• Fruits, veggies don't stop cancer return

• 11 food, drink companies restrict child ads

• Larvae take up residence on man's head

• Major League Baseball:

  • NL roundup: Phillies top Dodgers; Durbin gets 1st win

  • AL roundup: Indians batter White Sox bullpen again

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

Tuesday, July 17:

• Illinois seat belt use at record high; fatalities reach historic lows
  Illinois traffic safety laws to know

• Report says terror threat will continue

• Pace declares 'sea change' in Iraq

• Letter: To be consolidated or not to be consolidated

• Thief goes on rampage in garbage truck

• Suspicious packages inundate authorities

• New orchid smells like 'sweaty feet'

• Canada goose presence irks Wisconsin locals

• Indiana waitress gets whopper of a tip

• Couple may lose home over $1.63 tax bill

• IRS sued over sex-change deduction

• Snake surprises Pennsylvania man pumping gas

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Taxpayer alert! Governor pushes nearly $1 billion in tax hikes

• Man calls 911 to save him from police

• Full-time work losing luster for moms

• Copper thieves die trying to steal wire

• U.S. stocks head for lower open

• Weekly Outlook: Soybean pricing

• Agriculture futures plummet on CBOT

• Wedding announcement: Kinnamon-Wilson

• 4-H show results

• Reminder: Logan County Habitat for Humanity farm stand open

• Coming soon, safer cigs?

• Older diabetes drugs effective, safe

• ISU track and field announces 2007-08 signing class

• Golf's British Open: Creek a watery golf grave at Car-Nasty

• Major League Baseball:

  • Looper wins start as Cards top Marlins

  • Cubs rally as Giants rest slumping Bonds

  • 9-run 6th helps White Sox top Indians

  • Cubs acquire catcher Jason Kendall from A's

  • Poll: Rooting for Bonds divided by race

  • NL roundup: Griffey homers to pass Frank Robinson

  • AL roundup: Bosox rookie replacement throws shutout

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

Monday, July 16:

• Experts release school reorganization consolidation study
  Lincoln High School and its feeder school districts assessed
  LCHS board to discuss issue tonight

• U.S. House Appropriations Committee approves funding for area projects
  $1 million goes to new 911 center and Lincoln College in Lincoln

• County to change insurance carrier

• ALMH employees successfully complete first food drive

• State child support collections reach $1.22 billion, setting record for third consecutive year

• Survey: Nation's gas prices rise 6 cents

• IAEA confirms N. Korea has shut reactor

• Effort to revive food labeling law

• System relies on ice to chill buildings

• Survey: 1 in 12 U.S. workers using drugs

• Harry Potter, meet dairy Potter

• Meteorite impact debris found in Minn.

• Bush sees life in sporting terms

• Paratroopers mistakenly land at prison

• Pilot forgot to lower the landing gear

• Urban mushing calls to dogs' wild side

• Recall information

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Sen. Brady's efforts successful as lawmakers approve 'Jessica's Law'

• U.S. stocks move toward flat open

• Midsummer grubs and lawn care
  By John Fulton

• Impact of livestock industry on state's economy

• Short program aimed to help protect seniors from financial exploitation

• Summer day camp fun and educational experience

• Reminder: Logan County Habitat for Humanity farm stand open

• Letter: To consolidate or not

• U of I intends to play key role in nationwide digital humanities effort

• 13-14s baseball

• Legion baseball doubleheader

• Bowling:

• Summer No-Tap

• Summer Super Four

• Thursday NASCAR-Ball

• Golf:

  • Phil Mickelson lets another slip away

  • Byrd rallies to win John Deere Classic

  • Pak ties LPGA record with Jamie Farr win

• Racing: Tony Stewart ends 20-race winless streak

• Major League Baseball:

  • NL roundup: Phillies lose No. 10,000; Bonds in slump

  • AL roundup: Twins earn 4-game sweep of reeling A's

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

• Basketball: Mourning: I'll play again this season

Saturday, July 14:

• Fifth Street Road informational meeting

• End-of-June rainfall provides remarkable transformation

• PM: Iraqis can keep peace without U.S.

• AP poll: Public gives Congress low marks

• 2 N.Y. teens charged with school plot

• China fights back, goes after U.S. meat

• No La Nina this summer, NOAA says

• U.S. brothers recovering from gory run

• Michigan man jogged nude to 'feel alive'

• 6 months later, a report card on Vista

• Obama says Clinton war plan 'convoluted'

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Court news  

• Marriages

• Dissolutions

• Senate week in review
  Budget still not budging; child protection and land conservation laws pass

• Key senators agree on kids' health plan

• Dow ends amazing week by nearing 14,000

• Corn, soybean prices rise

• Park district notes: New programs begin

• Armington children's memory garden fundraiser

• Reminder: Logan County Habitat for Humanity farm stand open

• Here I Am, Send Me: Born again

• Gerber recalls organic baby cereals

• Gov. Blagojevich launches annual 'Break the Silence' campaign to increase awareness about elder abuse
  July is Elder Abuse Awareness Month in Illinois

• Enduring a rare disease with no cure

• Summer tea parties at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

• Mechanoluminescence event yields novel emissions, reactions

• Home Country: The meaning of the flag -- it's personal

• Wildlife Preservation Fund grants

• Road to Grand Canyon Skywalk to be paved

• Casey Mears wins pole for Chicagoland

• Golf: Green leads in Illinois; Johnson misses cut

• Major League Baseball:

  • Zambrano helps Cubs win 13th in 17 games

  • Phils rout Cards to stay at 9,999 losses

  • Cuban dips toe in water for buying Cubs

  • Team standings, scores & schedule

Friday, July 13:

• Coy's Car Corner opening doors on Saturday as Lincoln Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep

• Gov. Blagojevich uses executive authority to prevent insurance companies from pricing sick people out of their health coverage
  New rules will prohibit drastic premium increases based on health status and require full rate disclosure from insurance companies

• Al-Qaida works to plant U.S. operatives

• 126 people ill after Chicago food fest

• Obama draws cheers at NAACP convention

• Police: Mom may be victim of foul play

• Mom says she, toddler kicked off plane

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra breaks even

• Citizen journalism site to shut down

• Rare ghost orchid found in Florida tree

• New search begins in Earhart mystery

• World's tallest man gets hitched

• No jail for spiking Connecticut church juice

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Many don't have time for vacation

• Questions raised over broadband plan

• Biz owners urged to watch own finances

• Farm podcasts providing interest for Illinois farmers and consumers

• Soybean, corn prices climb

• Slaughter ban of cows unable to stand

• Ice cream a cool time in Middletown on Sunday

• Kiwanis presents awards to outstanding Logan County 4-H members

• Reminder: Logan County Habitat for Humanity farm stand open

• LCHS student activity meeting for parents

• Mustang tourney

• Major League Baseball:

  • Team standings, scores & schedule

  • ChiSox hang on for 11th win in 16 games

  • BALCO leak sentenced to 2 1/2 years

Thursday, July 12:

• Fifth Street Road project plans move into hearing process

• Historic Latham Park band shell renovations completed

  • Before and after pictures of band shell renovations

• Illinois Department of Agriculture finds new emerald ash borer infestation

• Al-Qaida has rebuilt strength, U.S. says

• Lady Bird Johnson dies at 94

• Bogus company gets nuke license

• Vultures make R.I. house a tough sell

• Ex-Marine tackles, lectures bank robber

• Dog finally off Washington state voter rolls

• Utah man, 87, says he hitchhiked to Pennsylvania

• Bulldog dognapped before owners' wedding

• Baby mammoth carcass found in Siberia

• Nixon wanted to be seen as 'nicey-nice'

• Lightning strikes reported by iPod users

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Business watercooler stories

• Most working moms prefer part-time jobs

• Accused investor's things up for auction

• Soybean, grains prices rise

• New minimum wage and farm work

• Reminder: Logan County Habitat for Humanity farm stand open

• Memorial Medical Center's new CT scanner delivers faster, clearer images

• Overweight kids face widespread stigma

• Cancer risk higher with Western diet

• Surgeon general nominee faces questions

• House OKs bill to cut student loan rates

• Red, White & True Mysteries: New York artist makes her debut at 76

• Illinois State Fair Arena to showcase fan favorites
  Professional bull riders, truck and tractor pulls, and freestyle motocross return 

• 13-14s baseball

• Legion baseball

• Bowling: Wednesday NASCAR-Ball

• Johnson to fill in on WJBC's 'Laughlin & Reynolds Show'

• Major League Baseball:

  • Brew crew gives second half intrigue

  • MLB union seeks to keep names secret

  • Team standings

Wednesday, July 11:

• Grand opening of McLean County Legal Self-Help Center

• State seeks information from Illinois nurses in continued effort to address work force shortage
  Survey responses due July 17

• Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warns of increased risk of attack this summer

  • Partial transcript of Chertoff's remarks

• Illinois Democrats turn on each other

• Ford: Hydrogen cars close to production

• Panel moves to cut off funds to Cheney

• Days numbered for Illinois 'car kabob'

• E. coli found in 500 Tennessee streams

• Lawn chair pilot flies with 105 balloons

• New dictionary includes 'ginormous'

• Giant squid appears in Australia

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• New book solves management issues

• China's June trade surplus hits new high

• Chiquita hopes for less tumultuous year

• Automatic toilet tissue dispenser ready

• Sheep being trained to weed vineyards

• Grains, soybeans rise

• Lincoln College maintenance plans benefit for Haseley 

• Local hospitals need help restocking blood supply
  Blood drive in Elkhart on Friday 

• Support group explores divorce-related topics
  'Reconciliation' 

• Oasis update

• Reminder: Logan County Habitat for Humanity farm stand open

• Letter: Fans made available through Parish Nurses of Logan County

• Book Look: 'A Plant Propagator's Bible'

• Praise service at Camp Griesheim on Sunday

• Here I Am, Send Me: The two commandments (actually one)

• Kids' insurance deal inching closer

• 2 scientists work to develop HIV vaccine

• Joke comprehension may decrease with age

• Psychologists to review stance on gays

• Death sentence upheld in Libya case

• Grand Funk Railroad to open for Joe Walsh

• Illinois Junior Girls' Golf Championship

• Mickle returns to Redbird football roster

• Major League Baseball:

  • Ichiro, AL hold off NL in All-Star game

  • Fans salute Willie Mays at All-Star game

  • Team standings, scores, schedule

  • Leaker invokes Libby for leniency

Tuesday, July 10:

• Chamber forms energy co-op to help members save money

• 'Relay Fever -- Keeping Hope Alive' comes to Minier

• Gov. Blagojevich, victims' families, advocates urge lawmakers in Springfield to take action against assault weapons

• Official: Iraq government missed all targets

• Lawmakers scold Lockheed, Grumman

• Thousands of golf balls stolen in Kansas

• Mud pit draws crowds at Redneck Games

• Cherry pit spit champ reigns anew

• 2 billion Chinese mice overrun lake area

• Wrecking ball snaps loose, wreaks havoc

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Gov. Blagojevich congratulates Illinois Senate for passing resolution affirming its commitment to shoring up state's decades-old pension debt

• 44th District weekly update

• Progress? Illinois budget numbers are finally being discussed

• Neva Specketer joins ME Realty

• Google buys Postini for $625 million

• Buffett delivers stock gift to charities

• Sprint Nextel defends cutting customers

• Tomato diseases
  By John Fulton

• Weekly Outlook: Hogs

• Soybeans rise, grains fall

• Logan County Habitat for Humanity farm stand opens

• School supply applicants sought
  Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital and CIEDC Community Action plan drive

• Historical society welcomes genealogical family histories

• Judge: Christ justice icon will stay up in court lobby

• Unhealthy truckers try to shape up

• Anti-smoking pill may help curb drinking

• Obese survive heart attacks better

• Tourists unearth dinosaur bones in Wyoming

• Mutterings: Summer report cards
  By Jeff Mayfield

• Lady Lynx basketball player honored

• Steroids testing in high school sports

• Major League Baseball:

  • NL looks to break All-Star losing streak

  • Haren, Peavy to start in All-Star game

  • Bonds makes All-Star splash

  • MLB to launch video archive site

  • Team standings

  • Tuesday schedule

Monday, July 9:

• City briefs
  Dog fine could bite

• 'Mud to Parks' project helps transform Chicago lakefront from industrial use to public park
  Barges from East Peoria deliver river mud for Chicago lakefront project

• Recall information

• Experts say save more for retirement

• Midwest tops in volunteering

• Global poll offers world new 7 wonders

• Robber disguised as tree hits N.H. bank

• Miniature robots play nano-soccer

• 60th anniversary of alien 'crash'

• 070707:

  • 7+7+7+7+7 one lucky baby

  • Couples rush to wed on 7-7-07

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Senate week in review
  July 2-6

• New bakery opens Tuesday

• One man's search for perfect strawberry

• Boeing unveils assembled 787 Dreamliner

• Verizon copper cutoff traps customers

• Wisconsin ethanol project runs into trouble

• China jails 2 church leaders

• Religion today

• ALMH hosts orthopedic innovations information fair

• Shipwreck teaches students about history

• Lincoln Speedway race results

• 13-14-year-old baseball

• Legion baseball

• Bowling: Thursday Super Four

• Major League Baseball:

  • Buehrle inks 4-year deal with ChiSox

  • Team standings, scores and schedule

Saturday, July 7:

• Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission hosts evening social and Lincoln look-alike contests - pictures

• Lincoln College radio station plans move to new location

• Keep Cool Illinois campaign to help families stay safe, healthy this summer

• Coroners get help identifying old bodies

• 2-year-old dies after being left in car

• What's the future for post office?

• Minn. circus school helps kids fly high

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Marriages

• Dissolutions

• (No court reports available.)

• Restaurants test table card readers

• Gas prices rise, reversing recent trend

• Grains, soybeans push higher

• LCC alumna accepts youth minister position in Oakland

• Here I Am, Send Me: Condemnation or conviction

• Second human West Nile virus case identified in Illinois

• Review finds nutrition education failing

• Keeping time at Westclox

• Home Country: Age shifts needs and values

• Danville Area Super Singles dance

• Pinto softball

• Pony League baseball

• Legion baseball

• This golf course hazard tops them all

• Lawmakers study safety of metal bats

• Major League Baseball:

  • Bonds stuck on 751 as Giants top Cards

  • Nady, Maholm help Pirates cool off Cubs

  • American League roundup: Twins score 32 in doubleheader against White Sox

  • Team standings, scores and schedule

Friday, July 6:

• Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission hosts evening social and Lincoln look-alike contests at Latham Park

• New associate judge for Logan County announced

• Landmark program for Illinois veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder

• Shoppers concerned about Chinese goods

• YouTube new '08 political battlefield

• Study: Women don't talk more than guys

• Environmental risks haunt 'ghost fleet'

• DNA test indicates very green Greenland

• Girl, 4, called 911 nearly 300 times

• Preteen sisters accused in kidnapping

• Cat survives 3 weeks crossing ocean

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Gov. Blagojevich signs law to increase competition in cable TV industry so consumers have more choices and better service

• Grains, soybeans move higher

• Sunday speaker at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

• State public health director reminds of salmonella linked to 'Veggie' snacks

• Gore arrest highlights Rx drug abuse

• NASA buys $19 million toilet system

• Pinto results

• MKS finishes season in Atlanta

• Major League Baseball:

  • Team standings, scores and schedule

Thursday, July 5:

• Fun 4th of July celebration kicks off Lincoln Heritage Days

  • 2007 'Let Freedom Ring' parade

• 'The First City to Live the Legacy' commemorates Lincoln, Ill., connection to Abraham Lincoln
  Commission prepare for the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln

  • Bicentennial goals

• CIEDC summer energy program begins Monday

• New Harley-Davidson event to benefit MDA

• FBI: Suicide bombs a big concern

• Van rolls into Connecticut pond, killing 3

• No-Bayashi -- hot dog champ loses

• Fireworks blast kills Michigan woman

• Obama says he is emissary for change

• Jogger trips suspected wallet-snatcher

• Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Eau de lawsuit: Woman sues over scent

• Arby's owner may hanker for Wendy's

• Album sales down, digital track sales up

• Grains, soybeans fall

• 5 dead in Virginia farming accident

• 'Let Freedom Ring' parade winners

• Junior Master Gardeners complete 'Literature in the Garden' series

• 94 die in Panama from tainted medicine

• Many teachers dubious of merit pay

• Red, White & True Mysteries: Former USC football player Marion Morrison becomes national icon

• Bicycle tour on route for Aug. 4

• 5-year-old pins rabid fox during cookout

• N.C. fisherman reels in a piranha

• 13-14s baseball

• Legion baseball

• Central Illinois Collegiate League update

• Russia awarded 2014 Winter Olympic Games

• Major League Baseball:

  • Team standings, scores and schedule

Wednesday, July 4: Independence Day holiday

Tuesday, July 3:

• July 4 launches Lincoln Heritage Days
  Wednesday through Saturday packed with events
  (See schedule of events.)

• Heritage Days: What's it all about?

• Blagojevich signs one-month budget bill to meet state's needs through July

• Pig parts spill closes Chicago highway

• Oil spill only adds to flooding worries

• Obama's successes dent Clinton candidacy

• Bush wipes away Libby's prison sentence

• Opera star Beverly Sills dies of cancer

• China finds pyramid in ancient tomb

• Woman finds $20K in bank deposit tube

• Burglars steal bank's 1-ton safe

• Protesters chain selves to doghouses

• Paris Hilton's garbage sells big on eBay

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Dedication of first Ostendorf Abraham Lincoln sign

• Study finds FOIA plagued by delays

• Keg thefts rise with scrap metal prices

• Markets: Grains mixed, soybeans rise

• Weekly Outlook: Acreage report surprise

• Support group explores divorce-related topics
  'Forgiveness' 

• Oasis update

• Women's clubs' travel team joins clubwomen
  'Federation's Precious Moments' summer seminar this month

• Gov. Blagojevich's Keep Cool Illinois campaign reminds you to be safe and stay healthy this July 4th
  Department of Public Health encourages safe food handling, swimming safety and West Nile virus prevention this holiday

• Study: Over 30 percent report alcohol abuse

• Poor sense of smell may be Alzheimer's

• Salmonella fears expand recall

• Letter: Golf outing helps Logan County kids

• Mustang results

• Cross Brothers Implement-Mount Pulaski softball update

• 13-14s baseball

• Lincoln Legion plays in tourney at Edwardsville

• Spending concern for 2014 Olympics race

• Major League Baseball:

  • Rolen leads Cards past Diamondbacks 11-3

  • Cubbies club slumping Nationals 7-2

  • Orioles rally to defeat White Sox 7-6

  • Team standings, scores and schedule

Monday, July 2:

• Rained-out St. Jude fundraiser rescheduled
  Main Street Lincoln and Railsplitter Antique Car Club to host events on July 28

• Sec. Chertoff statement re: Scotland airport bombing

• No escaping Texas' record June rainfall

• N.C. toddler found safe in woods

• Recall information

• Nuclear energy hot topic once again

• California town for sale again

• Man born in 1901 becomes U.S. citizen

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Crime Stoppers: Vandals damaging vehicle, residence and business windows
  Citizens asked to watch for suspicious vehicles

• Gov. Blagojevich announces Illinois minimum wage increases to $7.50 an hour

• 44th District weekly update

• Illinois' budget overtime session costs equivalent to a year's new teacher salary for each day

• Texas begins desalinating sea water

• 7-Elevens become Simpsons 'Kwik-E-Marts'

• Investors weigh commercial spaceflight

• If you have Japanese beetles, you may want to do something; they'll be back
  Japanese beetle update, evergreen pruning and yellow grass
  By John Fulton

• Older farmers keep on planting after 65

• Park district notes: Kids' outdoor adventure day and dog training

• CIEDC to host second annual Cheeseburger in Paradise fundraiser

• Key to a good marriage? Share housework

• Sen. Brady announces scholarship winners

• University for deaf put on probation

• Bogus toothpaste now in 6 states, Canada

• Moore's 'Sicko' gives accused little say

• MKS in Clinton tournament

• Racing results: Saturday at Lincoln Speedway

• Bowling schedule: Sign up now

• ISU at Missouri State slated for Gateway TV

• Major League Baseball:

  • NL roundup: Rookie sparkles as Giants rout D-Backs

  • AL roundup: Hargrove stuns Mariners by resigning

  • Sunday's scores

  • Team standings and schedule

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