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Area dairy farmers feeling spring’s rain

Corn and soybean farmers may be feeling the pinch this year as a result of heavy and long spring rains, but so are area dairy farmers. Cattle depend on the grains and hays that are grown in local fields, and those crops have been pushed back this year, too, right along with the corn and beans.
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Regulators close Founders Bank

Founders Bank branches in Minooka and Channahon are to reopen Monday in the wake of the state’s closing Thursday of the Founders Group of Worth.

HydroElectric plant still needs operating license

MARSEILLES - Finance Commissioner Bob Davis is urging residents to a letter or e-mail campaign aimed at licensing and restarting the Marseilles HydroElectric generating plant.

Former Blagojevich aide may plead guilty Wednesday

CHICAGO (AP) — The next big court date in former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption case comes Wednesday when one of his top aides may plead guilty.

Product pitchman Mays remembered as natural seller

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. (AP) — Television pitchman Billy Mays, whose high-energy hawking turned products like OxiClean from infomercial curiosities into mainstream successes, was remembered as a pop culture icon at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh.

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‘They know where everything goes’

On Friday, June 26, members of New Community Christian Church stocked the pantry shelves at We Care of Grundy County.

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Star-Spangled Sweets

The fourth of July brings to mind many memories and traditions.Whether you picnic, grill or order a pizza; everyone seems to have a special way of cel ...

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Chicago, Detroit exchange scorers; Hawks lose Havlat

I think Chicago came out ahead Wednesday, when it and Detroit swapped a pair of professional athletes that score an awful lot in the winter months.
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Yao Ming may miss 2009-10 season

Talk about a reversal of fortunes for the Houston Rockets, who had one of the best and most surprising playoff runs in the NBA this past seaason.