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Thursday, December 13, 2012  While you're loading up the car with last minute gifts, be sure to protect your purchases.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012  If you need to get a copy of your medical records, as it is now at most places, you have to fill out a form and wait a couple of days.

Monday, June 04, 2012  Esential service were in danger if state pension plan had gone through.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012  Corporate Personal Property Replacement Tax, or CPPRT, provides about $3 million in funding in to the City of Quincy. That money was threatened by a recent house bill that could have cut funding to cities across the State of Illinois.

Monday, May 21, 2012  The City of Rushville Illinois decides to build a 60 x 60 concrete pad so the Air Evac Life Team helicopter can better serve Schuyler County Illinois.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011  Pakistani who owned bin Laden's final hideaway lived in compound, aided al-Qaida chief

Wednesday, February 16, 2011  Documents show local-federal immigration program only voluntary until a city says 'no, thanks.'

Monday, July 26, 2010  The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates who argue the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009  The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Harley Lappin, told a legislative panel at a public hearing in Sterling that Thomson would be the most secure of all federal prisons in the country.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009  Homeland Security chief tells senators new driver's licenses would be secure and cheaper