Iowa dairy farmer crafts 600 pound butter cow for Illinois fair
For 31 years Lyon has sculpted a butter cow weighing 600 pounds and a Smoky Bear for Illinois and Iowa fairs. She works in two hour shifts in the Dairy Building and earns about 1500 dollars plus hotel. At 72 and with diabetes worsening, she hints this may be her last Springfield butter cow effort.
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Chicagoan named top bioethics adviser to Bush
Dr. Leon Kass of the University of Chicago has been appointed to head a new presidential council on bioethics. He cautions the panel will include a broad range of views, focusing on moral and political questions arising from biomedical advances rather than overseeing stem cell grants.
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Driver tied to tanker crash used fake license in Chicago
Fernando Ruiz 29 of Franklin Park was charged with using a phony name on a drivers license and filing a false license application after a tanker crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway. Police also cited him for log book falsification and improper lane change.
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Ryan signs teen ticket legislation in Illinois
Gov George Ryan signed a bill to study a parent notification pilot for 16 and 17 year old motorists who receive tickets in DuPage Kendall and Sangamon counties in 2003. Court officials will notify the car owner when the driver is under 18 and in the issuing county. Authorities won t tattle on teen owners. The state police must report results to lawmakers by early 2004. He also signed a recklessness homicide license delay law requiring two years after release before eligibility and ending judges power to shorten it.
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