It wasn't a four-alarm fire that brought this ladder truck to Bode's Welding on Sangamon Street last week. The truck's ladder, capable of reaching 90 feet, needed some of Don Bode's talent for a repair.

[pictures by Karen Hargis] click on pictures for larger images

• Mustang tournament

• 'Classy' teams take home highest WBCA honor off the court
  Lincoln College makes top 20 in JC/CC

• Golf: Sergio Garcia leads British Open

• Major League Baseball:

  • Andruw Jones leads Braves over Cards

  • Cardinals' Carpenter to undergo Tommy John surgery

  • Cubs-Giants: Bonds homers twice to close in on Aaron

  • Cubs send Izturis, cash to Pirates

  • White Sox make wild Dice-K, Red Sox pay

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

• Sports news elsewhere

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Thursday, July 19:

• County moves ethanol plant forward
  Return of delayed audit anticipated

• Independent survey shows public strongly behind governor's Illinois Covered health care plan

• FDA warns consumers about risk of botulism poisoning from hot dog chili sauce marketed under a variety of brand names

• Bush creates import safety panel

• Government does U-turn on green cards

• Some asbestos found after NYC pipe blast

• Defense contractor settles $8M claim

• No divorce for husband, missing wife

• 7 kids removed from squalid Texas home

• Vandals attack man's Hummer, leave note

• Thousands of bees won't leave man's home

• Metal chunk crashes through N.J. roof

• Truck slams into Pennsylvania homes

• Lunch bag leads to office evacuation

• Teens allegedly taunt hippos and survive

• 'Goose Whisperer' bonds with park birds

• This day in history

• The nation's weather

• Computer system used to fight meth

• Benefactor helps Louisiana couple keep home

• Nominations for Best Boss of 2006 now being accepted

• Ooma Inc. offers free domestic calls

• Agriculture futures rise on Chicago Board of Trade

• Lincoln Community High School student receives scholarship in national ASABE High School Multimedia Competition
  How our lives would be different today if not for the last century of advances in agricultural, food and biological systems engineering 

• Mueller named vice president of enrollment management at Lincoln College

• Children's picture book seminar

• Red, White & True Mysteries: An 1859 murder leads to the invention of a new legal maneuver

• Here I Am, Send Me: An encounter with Christ

• Telepsychiatry to aid in treatment of rural psychiatric patients on Medicaid

• Third human case of West Nile virus identified in Illinois

• Company creates combustible tattoo ink

• Survey finds many docs stress over mistakes

• Texas man battles flesh-eating bacteria

• Legion baseball at Mount Zion

• Wednesday NASCAR-Ball

• Golf: Tiger tied for lead at British Open

• Major League Baseball:

  • Cubs' Lee ends appeal, serves suspension

  • NL roundup: Zambrano gets his 12th victory for Cubs

  • AL roundup: Yanks win, Bosox lose as AL East tightens

  • Team standings, schedules & scores

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