Mark Fox, a tree trimmer from Virden and employee of Wright Tree Service, carefully worked high up in the trees to clear branches away from three-phase power lines Monday morning on Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln.

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Saturday, Aug. 11:

• Gov. Blagojevich announces recommendations to improve safety at Illinois dams

• More than $440,000 in Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial grants awarded to Illinois projects
  Funds will help with statewide celebration of 16th president's 200th birthday

• Blagojevich administration partners with UAW leadership to offer consumer protection training

• Second drill reaches miners' location

• Recovery grinds on in Minn. collapse

• Astronauts prepare for first spacewalk

• Federal deficit down to $157.3 billion

• Toll records trip up philanderers

• Church cancels memorial for gay Navy vet

• Consumers urged to pick new DVD format

• Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend

• Big Ben's bongs fall silent for repairs

• Taliban: Koreans' release could come soon

• Diplomat: Musharraf can't win terror war

• Brazil says Amazon deforestation down

• Obama defends foreign policy talk

• Pants plaintiff goes back to court

• Wienermobile busted by Chicago cops

• Today in history

• The nation's weather

• Marriages

• (No dissolution reports)

• (No court reports available)

• Gov. Blagojevich signs law to prohibit convicted sex offenders from working at carnivals, county fairs statewide

• Governor takes bill action

• Stocks end mixed after raucous week

• TechLine: Wet cell phone tips

• Energy futures rebound on news of storm

• High-risk mortgages become toxic mess

• Soybean, wheat prices slide

• U.K. livestock do not have foot-and-mouth

• CIEDC staff members attend Head Start conference

• Home Country: A moment of summer perfection

• 4 out of 10 kids use car booster seats

• Army starts new psychiatric program

• Study: Obese kids are absent more

• NASCAR's Ken Schrader looks for second Allen Crowe 100 win at Springfield

• NL roundup: Wagner & Hoffman fail to hold leads

• AL roundup: ChiSox pitcher closes in on history

• Fields, Uribe lead White Sox

• Loney's homer leads Dodgers past Cardinals 2-1

• Fan who has Bonds' 755th ball selling

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Woods seizes control with 63 at PGA

Friday, Aug. 10

Thursday, Aug. 9

Wednesday, Aug. 8

Tuesday, Aug. 7

Monday, Aug. 6