Residents of New York and New England braced for a potential onslaught Friday from Hurricane Earl, which earlier lashed the Carolina coastline with 35-foot waves. North Carolina's governor said her state had "dodged the bullet."
Bomb squad investigators were at Miami International Airport on Friday after a suspicious item was spotted in a baggage screening area, authorities said.
General rule of thumb: when looking to buy marijuana, don't text the sheriff. Authorities said a Helena teen sent out a text message last week in search of pot, but instead of contacting the drug dealer, he hit a wrong number and inadvertently sent the message to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton.
As a weakened Hurricane Earl passed North Carolina by, the state's governor told reporters, "We dodged a bullet," perhaps forgetting the controversy around the use of the phrase in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Law enforcement agencies in McHenry County are bringing in extra officers, increasing patrols, and planning roadside safety checks for the busy Labor Day weekend.
A 26-year-old Crystal Lake man faces up to 30 years in prison after his arrest Wednesday on charges he sold cocaine earlier this year to undercover police officers.
Huntley Unit District 158 is holding auditions for the 11th annual Huntley High School Variety Show. Auditions will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 7 and from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 8 in the high school, Room 1216.
More than 211,000 fliers will descend on O'Hare International Airport today, as Labor Day travelers try to squeeze as much as possible out of the waning summer.
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County residents may be victims of "Love Canal II" contamination, but you'd never know it based on what the County Health Department says. When the unusual cluster of rare cancer cases in the north McCullom Lake area triggered class-action lawsuits several years ago, the McHenry County Health Department did nothing but issue statements to reassure the public. The possibility that drinking water in the McCullom Lake area is contaminated with carcinogenic chemical wastes seems to be of little interest to the public officials charged with protecting our well-being.
One year in, the evidence is clear — and growing by the day — that the Recovery Act is working to cushion the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression while laying a new foundation for economic growth.
Commuters in McHenry County are feeling the effects of poor transportation planning and lack of state funding for county road projects.
For example, the $42 million Algonquin Road widening project from Randall Road west to Route 47 is already behind schedule and faces complications from engineering mistakes by County Transportation Department engineers. Once underway, the lane expansion project will take over two years to complete, on a major artery that is already choked with traffic nearly all day long.
The August unemployment data are out. The unemployment rate was “about unchanged” at 9.6 percent,” says the BLS press release. Teenagers (26.3 percent), African Americans (16.3 percent), and Hispanics (12.0 percent) “showed little change.” You can feel the boredom in the release. No change, no news, nothing to report.
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
White House (Finally) Considering Emergency Stimulus
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, the Democratic and Republican
candidates for U.S. Senate, are essentially tied, with each garnering
34 percent in support in a new Tribune poll of 600 likely voters across the state....
GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Brady has made clear school won't be
exempt from his budget ax if he's elected governor. To make up for the lost
revenue, the Republican mentioned to supporters yesterday that "school districts could absorb that by maybe not offering
the pay raises that they put in place."
While it may seem
intuitive and reasonable at first glance to ask teachers to forgo pay bumps , Brady's line of argument contains a few flaws. For starters,
each district has its own contract that contains different terms,
meaning there is...
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GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Brady has made clear school won't be
exempt from his budget ax if he's elected governor. To make up for the lost
revenue, the Republican