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- Weird but true
- Some people will be forgiven for complaining about getting s- - - for Christmas. An Illinois zoo has added sparkling reindeer-dung necklaces to its gift shop for the holiday season. The $15 pendants contain dried, sterilized deer droppings…
- New York Post
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- 1 hour ago
- Nearly 1 in 5 Illinois homeowners underwater on mortgage
- Almost 410,000 Illinois mortgages, or 18.4 percent of home loans, were underwater in September, meaning homeowners owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth. A report issued Tuesday by data provider First American CoreLogic…
- Chicago Tribune
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- 3 hours ago
- Business Briefs
- Playboy to cut 25 jobs, outsource Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises announced Tuesday it will outsource all Playboy magazine functions except the editorial product and cut about 25 jobs, moves it hopes restore the magazine -- expected to…
- Chicago Sun-Times
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- 2 hours ago
- Here are the 99 Marathon city manager applicants
- He managed two country clubs in North Carolina and Florida prior to that ... Cocoa resident Clarence Hulse, a consultant for a real estate development group since June 2008. He’s held several similar positions prior and was deputy city…
- KeysNet
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- Ravenna history is found on eBay: Item was Reed library…
- When Henry Stel, a history teacher from western Canada, found a stereoscope on eBay, he knew he’d found a sweetheart deal. But he had no idea that a signature inside the antique would have him digging up local history in Ravenna. Stel, who…
- Recordpub
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- Families of the fallen reflect on BackStoppers' legacy, 50…
- ST. LOUIS — Anne Sebold remembers only two things from the day she learned her husband, city police officer Louis Sebold, 45, had been killed in the line of duty: The looks on her six children's faces, and the visit from two men who called…
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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- 3 hours ago
St. Louis Post-Dispatch- Outta Leftfield: Joining the cultural cognoscenti for a truly…
- When I was a young man, I used to dream about winning the lottery just so I could hire the Beach Boys to come to my house and play a gig in my living room. One would need a relatively big house and most likely a substantially big wallet —…
- MontgomeryNews.com
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- 3 hours ago
- Sex ring alleged in Tea
- A Tea couple used their duplex as the home base for an underage sex trafficking operation, according to a complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court. Court documents say Brandon Quincy Thompson, 26, and his girlfriend, Megan Marie…
- Argus Leader
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- 4 hours ago
- Heritage Harbor expands in tough economic climate
- OTTAWA — Along the Illinois River’s northern bank are massive, colorful waterfront homes more reminiscent of properties depicted on Cape Cod postcards than real estate normally found locally. But even rarer, perhaps, were the number of…
- News Tribune
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- 4 hours ago
- Letters: Beach restoration in N.J. benefits many
- There are 3,400 homes in Sea Isle City; 155 of those are on the beach ... dollars, study Alaska, West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania. The dollars spent on New Jersey beach…
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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- 4 hours ago