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Thursday, April 18, 2013  Workers there met with managers Thursday and were told of the temporary reassignment.

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Ex-LA cop who led deadly rampage ultimately done in by series of mistakes and miscalculations

Thursday, January 03, 2013  Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Donnie Davis, of Edina, as Treasurer for Knox County Thursday.

Monday, October 08, 2012  Britain's Gurdon, Japan's Yamanaka share Nobel medicine prize for stem cell research

Tuesday, September 18, 2012  Researchers lure great white sharks onto boat platform for up close tagging off Cape Cod coast

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Thursday, March 01, 2012  The death count is rising after a line of tornados swept across the Midwest early Wednesday morning.

Friday, September 30, 2011  In our Facebook Story of the Day for September 30, NASA reassures us that we're safer from asteroids than previously thought.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010  Volunteers and their horses are now prepared to help authorities in McDonough County when someone goes missing.

Friday, August 13, 2010  UFO researchers will descend on Columbia this weekend to discuss unexplained phenomena in the sky.

Monday, August 02, 2010  A study from Stanford University researchers says traditional farming has kept some greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010  Researchers have discovered that a document including Abraham Lincoln's writing from the 1830s traveled with the doomed Donner Party which set out for the West from Springfield in 1846.

Thursday, May 06, 2010  Can exercise keep people independent and prevent disability as they age?

Thursday, April 15, 2010  Researchers for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln have electronically matched two pieces of a page from Lincoln's arithmetic copybook.

Thursday, February 18, 2010  UIC social work researchers have received a nearly $1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.