Seven injured as Greyhound runs off highway near Atlanta
A Greyhound bus carrying 36 passengers left Interstate 75 near Kennesaw Georgia, ran up and down an embankment and into a ditch. Seven people including the driver received minor injuries as two replacement buses ferried passengers to Nashville Louisville and Chicago. A passenger described a panic as the bus swerved.
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Kennesaw, Ga
Greyhound
Atlanta
Nashville
Louisville
Chicago
Lerone Phelps
Governor to lead Illinois firms to Cuba for medicine sales
Governor George Ryan, a retired pharmacist, will head a delegation of five Illinois drug firms on a January 24 to 26 trip to Cuba to discuss medicines for hurricane devastated island. Companies Ferris Manufacturing Medline DMS Pharmaceutical JDR International and 21st Century Healthcare will pay their own way.
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Springfield
George Ryan
Cuba
Illinois
Ryan
Dennis Culleton
Ferris Manufacturing
Burr Ridge
Medline
Mundelein
DMS Pharmaceutical
Park Ridge
JDR International
Chicago
21St Century Healthcare
Woodridge
Christmas Bird Count on Illinois River Yields Eagles and Gulls
Rick and Tracy Fox join the National Audubon Society count with 50 000 others to document birds for science. On a Chillicothe area stretch of the ice crusted Illinois River they record species and numbers including more than a dozen American bald eagles and a herring gull with pink legs. Counting birds is a practiced skill used since the count began over a century ago to replace hunting data with scientific observation.
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National Audubon Society
Illinois River
Chillicothe
Rick Fox
Tracy Fox
Rome
Madigan pushes bill to curb credit card identity theft
Illinois AG candidate Lisa Madigan urged mandatory systems to print only the last five digits on receipts to reduce identity theft, a crime affecting 500000 to 750000 annually per the FTC. She cites personal experience and gains support from David Vite while opponent Schmidt questions bureau creation.
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Springfield
Lisa Madigan
Madigan
Federal Trade Commission
Chicago
John Schmidt
Attorney General's Office
Accused kidnapper to face hearing in Chicago
Sheila Matthews, 33 or 35, arrived from West Virginia with marshals to be arraigned before Magistrate Judge Edward A. Bobrick on federal kidnapping charges. The 16 month old Jasmine Anderson was reportedly abducted from a Greyhound terminal in Chicago on Christmas Eve. If convicted she faces life in prison.
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Chicago
West Virginia
Sheila Matthews
Edward A. Bobrick
Matthews
Jasmine Anderson
Elvis on Tennessee coin marks first artist honor in U S history
Fans flood Memphis and across the country to own the 2002 colorized Tennessee Statehood Quarter honoring Elvis Presley on the 25th anniversary of his 1977 death. The coin features a color portrait, Graceland logo, and Elvis signature, with coins sourced directly from the U S Mint and sealed after colorization.
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Memphis
U.S
Tennessee
Elvis
Graceland
Elvis Presley
George Hubbard
International Collectors Society
Hubbard
ICS
Red Run Boulevard
Owings Mills
Maryland
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Don Meyer
David Sapp
Island
Fidel Castro
Culleton
Peoria
Rick
Bill
South Africa
David Vite
Illinois Retail Merchants Association
Medicare
Liberty Home Pharmacy
Liberty
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Apt
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Ron
Papas
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