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• What's going on at the fair?
  The Illinois State Fair butter cow has mooooved
  Parade winners and opening events

• Current obituaries

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Thursday, Aug. 9:

• Local residents aid team identifying significant Route 66 information

• Slight relief from heat forecast for portions of central Illinois
  Heat advisory remains in effect to the south

• City of Lincoln representatives attend Lincoln Bicentennial workshop
  Training and ideas will help Lincoln celebrate 16th president's 200th birthday

• Keep Cool Illinois campaign to provide cooling centers during Illinois State Fair

• Lincoln/Logan County Hometown Day featured Sunday at the state fair

• Rescuers within 500 feet of Utah miners

• Endeavour carries teacher into space

• States urged to consider weight on bridges

  • Higher gas tax to fix bridges proposed

• 255,000 Chinese-made tires recalled

• Illinois to get fastest supercomputer

• Man sentenced in restaurant slayings

• Life ring may be from Edmund Fitzgerald

• U.S. struggles to downsize Guantanamo

• Fossils challenge old evolution theory

• Shiite pilgrims converge on Baghdad

• Germany struggles to save Berlin Wall

• Are attitudes on Iraq changing?

• Rowdy 'Redneck Games' irk neighbors

• Today in history

• The nation's weather

• Sen. Brady: Is delay in budget tied to legislative pay raises?

• Red Cross sued for use of cross emblem

• U.S. stocks head for sharply lower open

• Wheat, corn, soybeans rise

• DNA tests ID cows that make special milk

• Reminder: ALMH and CIEDC school supply distribution

• U of I library blog offers free access to complete works of history

• Red, White & True Mysteries: Texas political wife made history as broadcasting pioneer

• CDC study shows community measures prevent deaths during pandemic

• American Legion hosts banquet for baseball teams

• Wednesday NASCAR-Ball

• NL roundup: Bonds hits 757; Dodgers blanked again

• AL roundup:  Mariners make move in AL wild card race

• Jones: Steroid question could dog A-Rod

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• It'll be hot finale at PGA Championship

• Beijing begins 1-year countdown to games

• NASCAR driver gets unlikely benefactor

Wednesday, Aug. 8

Tuesday, Aug. 7

Monday, Aug. 6

Saturday, Aug. 4

Friday, Aug. 3