Caterpillar plants run as negotiators consider next move
Column One State notes Caterpillar plants face negotiation leverage as talks progress. Business highlights include a new 50 dollar bill design with color splashes, Kerry challenging Bush’s service record, and a Baghdad blast suspected to be tied to a chemical weapons warehouse killing two U.S. soldiers. Local briefs cover careers drive, spending at RLCD, SIUG chancellor, a former dispatcher pleading guilty, Dear Abby on bridesmaids expenses, and Cate Blanchett’s birth. Weather outlook: today mostly sunny mid 60s, tonight partly cloudy mid 40s, Wednesday partly cloudy and breezy mid 70s.
Welcome Home J T Bandy Returns From Iraq To De Soto
Justin J T Bandy arrives back with Illinois National Guard 2333rd Military Police Company at Camp Lincoln then escorted into De Soto by fire and police units. About 200 people greet him at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church and at his home as family and friends share hugs and stories after weeks away.
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Physicians rally in Springfield over malpractice reform
Southern Illinois doctors head to the Capitol for a 11 30 a.m. rally to urge reform of medical malpractice costs. More than 200 physicians from Carbondale and surrounding areas participate with four to five busloads leaving Memorial Hospital. Organizers say they seek no specific plan, only action from legislators to protect health care access amid rising premiums.
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Springfield Doctors Rally At Capitol Over Malpractice Costs
More than 200 physicians from the area are set to rally at 11 30 a m Wednesday at the Capitol in Springfield urging lawmakers to pursue malpractice cost relief. Governor Blagojevich says malpractice reform legislation will be addressed before spring session ends.
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Peacekeeper Gary Weston Laid to Rest in Vienna
The funeral of Gary Weston, known as a peacekeeper, drew scores of mourners to Vienna on Monday. Friends and family recalled his impact with stories that swung from raw pain to laughter and back to sorrow as they remembered his life and acts of service.
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White supremacist Hale guilty of soliciting murder
CHICAGO AP Matthew Hale the self styled Pontifex Maximus of a white supremacist group was found guilty Monday of trying to have a federal judge killed after she ruled against him in a trademark case Hale 32 was found guilty on four of five charges and innocent on one of two counts of soliciting the murder of a federal judge The judge was not attacked The conviction comes almost five years after Hale first drew national attention when a follower of his World Church of the Creator went on a deadly shooting spree targeting minorities in Illinois and Indiana Hale laughed and imitated gunfire in secretly recorded tapes
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