Thompson says educators to be disappointed with increases
Illinois faces a record education budget next year yet officials expect a constrained rise due to recession and reduced federal aid. Gov. Thompson predicts a sizeable but tempered increase for K-12 and higher education, with final recommendations due Friday to the education boards.
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Springfield
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Ten Democratic lawyers fired in non-partisan purge by Edgar
Secretary of State Jim Edgar dismissed ten part time lawyers who are Democrats using contract escape clauses effective March 6. Eleven of twenty downstate contract lawyers were affected with one Republican, Franz Fleischli, spared. Backlog in hearing offices cited, with politics acknowledged as a factor though work ability also reviewed.
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D-Peoria
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Illinois
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East Moline
Brent Bohlen
Chicago
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Mount Vernon man charged in slaying
Dwight Lonnie Wright, 27, was charged with murder in the shooting death of Earl Owens, 43, at a Mount Vernon residence and held without bond in Jefferson County Jail. Wright reportedly called police to say Owens assaulted him, then a neighbor reported a disturbance and gunfire. Officers arrested Wright at about 4 p.m.
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Jefferson County
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Dwight Lonnie Wright
Earl Owens
Volkert
Wright
Owens
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