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Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013
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At the Monday evening meeting of the Lincoln City Council, two city police officers were promoted to higher rankings. Officer Miles Craig, pictured at left with city attorney Blinn Bates, was sworn in as the department's newest corporal, while Matt Vlahovich, in the picture at right, was promoted to sergeant.

Photos by Nila Smith (Click on images for larger versions.)

Main Street Lincoln outlines plans for Christmas
Dense fog to begin dissipating midmorning
Wintry precipitation coming to central and southern Illinois Thursday and Friday
Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois relocating Lincoln office
Hundreds benefit from Open Arms Thanksgiving
St. John's celebrates another successful Germanfest
Help Mount Pulaski High School win $10,000

Special feature from LDN's
Home for the Holidays magazine

Need a little spirit lift this season?

16 Days of Activism

Violence against women fact for Dec. 3

Day Planner

Special holiday events from our Spiritual Life section

Tuesday

9 a.m. -- Free blood pressure screenings at ALMH
5:30 p.m. -- Light Up A Life ceremony at ALMH

Wednesday

Noon -- Breastfeeding support group

IFB donates $10,000 to help fund Illinois tornado disaster relief
FSA acreage reporting dates for 2014
Historic sites help state executive mansion deck the halls
Community Calendar of Events

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Yesterday's Top Stories

Railers take Eaton championship with a 5-game sweep
Break 2005 record, allowing only 176 opponent points
By Jeff Benjamin

Scenes from the Saturday night Railer game against Cahokia — album

Wilmert tenders resignation as Ward 2 alderman

Tourism bureau now under city governance

26th annual Light Up A Life to be held Tuesday

Pride of the Prairie brings in dollars for happy vendors

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A perfect respite from holiday madness: the Lincoln College Holiday Concert

Logan County trail system moving forward

Bill Thomas represents Atlanta at World Monuments Fund event

Library notes

Jordan Luczaj is the Mount Pulaski Senior-of-the-Month

Midwest Central kicks off annual Snow Buddies program

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Cranes salvage the last car from a train derailment in the Bronx section of New York on Monday. Federal authorities began righting the cars Monday morning as they started an exhaustive investigation into what caused a Metro-North commuter train rounding a riverside curve to derail, killing four people and injuring more than 60 others. A second "event recorder" retrieved from the train may provide information on the speed of the train, how the brakes were applied and the throttle setting, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.

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Local

Main Street Lincoln outlines plans for Christmas
Dense fog to begin dissipating midmorning
Wintry precipitation coming to central and southern Illinois Thursday and Friday
Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois relocating Lincoln office
Hundreds benefit from Open Arms Thanksgiving
St. John's celebrates another successful Germanfest
Help Mount Pulaski High School win $10,000
Special feature from LDN's
Home for the Holidays magazine
- Need a little spirit lift this season?

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Open Arms Thanksgiving meal, Germanfest report
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State

Lawmakers convening special session on pensions

Ill. mother accused of breaking infant's ribs, leg
Numbers show homicides falling in Chicago
November in Illinois colder, drier than usual
Coast Guard ship to deliver Christmas trees

National

Shark attack off Maui leaves fisherman dead

NYC train derailment airs queries about technology

Detroit to get crucial ruling in bankruptcy case
Jury selection for ex-officer in Katrina shooting
Officials: Walker crash not part of street race
- Fatherhood inspired the late Paul Walker's role in 'Hours'

Amazon's delivery drones: An idea that may not fly

10 things to know for Tuesday

Politics, Government & Elections
Obama tries to move past health care website woes

Updated healthcare.gov gets mixed reviews

Year-end sign-ups crucial test for health care site

Obama reveals $100M HIV research initiative

Obama to meet with Colombia's Santos

Biden: China air zone raises risk of accidents

Kerry seeks clarity on US troops in Afghanistan

At 11th hour, Congress debates plastic gun ban

Some Dems keep distance as Obama popularity drops

For critics of Common Core, educational folly

International

Mother superior: Nuns abducted by Syrian rebels

Thai protests ease as police lift key barricades

No-confidence vote in Ukraine fails

Egypt: Morsi's links to jihadists probed
Bob Dylan charged in France over Croatia remarks
Bolshoi dancer gets 6 years for attack on director
Europe rights court to hear of secret CIA prisons

US vet detained in NKorea oversaw guerrilla group

Japan food seeks heritage gong as young spurn rice
Asian nations dominate international test

ODD & Extraordinary

Shrunken head? Ripley's NY to shoppers: Believe it

Science, Technology and the Environment

Hubble Telescope best shot at learning comet fate

In your face, selfie! 'Science' also tops for 2013

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National

Americans turn
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Amazon.com sees delivery drones
as future

Fast-food strikes aim at 100 US cities
US manufacturing grows at fastest in 2½ years

US construction spending up 0.8 pct in October

Supreme Court won't stop NY's Internet taxation

Madoff's right-hand man takes stand
in NYC trial

International

Greek death raises worry of winter impact on poor
Volvo to test self-driving cars

Saab is back:
First cars produced under new owners

Lloyds names Norman Blackwell as new chairman
French court orders trial for EADS, Daimler execs

Energy

Oil rises on China's modest manufacturing growth

Markets

Stocks fall on disappointing Thanksgiving sales
World markets drift as big US data week starts

Hilton could raise $2.4B, 1 of year's biggest IPOs

Dow Chemical looking to spin off, sell 40 plants
Hess selling Indonesia assets for $1.3B

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Illinois grain prices in country elevators

IFB donates $10,000 to help fund Illinois tornado disaster relief

FSA acreage reporting dates for 2014

FSA advises producers to anticipate payment reductions due to mandated sequester
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Tonight at 5:30, Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital will host its 26th annual Light Up a Life ceremony. The Rev. Dr. Robert Henderson, hospital chaplain, will lead the service, and ALMH Auxilian Linda McCuan will lead the singing. Immediately following the service, a soup supper will be offered at the hospital's Woods Cafe. The public is invited to attend and share in this solemn remembrance.

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- Bella Alene Michelle Faulkner
- Abigail Nicole Schaub
- Peyton Elizabeth Winebrinner

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Hundreds benefit from Open Arms Thanksgiving
St. John's celebrates another successful Germanfest
Mount Pulaski Courthouse offers holiday trees in Dec. 7 auction
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Community News & Events

Library notes

Park district notes

YMCA notes

Community Calendar of Events

Submit entry for LDN Calendar of Events

Help Mount Pulaski High School win $10,000
A perfect respite from holiday madness: the Lincoln College Holiday Concert
Chester-East Lincoln statement for fiscal year ending June 30 (PDF)
Jordan Luczaj is the Mount Pulaski Senior-of-the-Month
Midwest Central kicks off annual Snow Buddies program
School websites

District 27 menus: Breakfast | Lunch (PDFs)
Head Start menu (PDF)
Carroll Catholic School calendar (PDF)
Activities and menus

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Community Action Partnership emergency food pantry hours

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Senior Life

Article update Nov. 26

In observance of Caregivers Awareness Month, state reminds families about resources to assist them ... Financially surviving the golden years ... 'Gravity' and the long-term care crisis ... Social Security announces 1.5 pct benefit increase for 2014 ... Your will: the overlooked bucket-list item ... Stroke -- the leading cause of disability in Illinois and the U.S.
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A Veterans Day prayer
The “Mine Field”
Coming to Open Arms Christian Fellowship November 2013
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Obituaries
Most recent:
- Armour, Dorothy, 91
- Newberry, Mildred V. Briggs, 93

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Actor Paul Walker poses during the photocall for the movie "Fast & Furious 5" in Rome. Walker and his friend and financial adviser Roger Rodas died in a one-car crash Saturday in the Southern California community of Valencia. The industrial neighborhood where the car crashed is known to attract street racers.

AP file photo by Andrew Medichini

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

Fatherhood inspired the late Paul Walker's role in 'Hours'
Officials: Walker crash not part of street race

In your face, selfie! 'Science' also
tops for 2013

Vatican, Oxford put ancient manuscripts online
Bolshoi dancer gets 6 years for attack on director

Bob Dylan charged
in France over
Croatia remarks

Movie plans for best-selling Hitler satire
'Catching Fire,' 'Frozen' glowing box office hits
Champion to exit ABC News for The Weather Channel

Diane Lane and
Josh Brolin's
divorce finalized

Ryan O'Neal testifies about disputed Warhol art
The Rascals abandon 2nd Broadway concert series

Shelton, Bryan returning as hosts
of ACM Awards

Broadway gobbles up Thanksgiving records
'Singin' in the Rain' suit goes up for auction

ABC's 'The Chew' biting into its
500th episode

Broadway's 'Pippin' recoups $8.5M investment
Jennifer Lopez to receive parenting honor

Food, Family and Fun

Slim Randles' Home Country
From sunsets to turkeys: natural blessings
Outdoors with Babe Winkelman
Oh, Mr. Grouse, you're such a wonderful bird!
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Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois relocating Lincoln office
Flu facts
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Logan County Department of Public Health food inspection scores
Births at ALMH
Recent Health & Fitness News Index

Historic sites help state executive mansion deck the halls
Recent Tourism News Index

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Sheriff's deputies work near the wreckage of a Porsche that crashed into a light pole on Hercules Street near Kelly Johnson Parkway in Valencia, Calif., on Saturday. A publicist for actor Paul Walker says the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series died in the crash north of Los Angeles. He was 40.

AP photo by Dan Watson, The Santa Clarita Valley Signal (Click on image for larger view.)

Today's Top Sports Stories

Local

Logan Lanes: Sunday Night Mixed

Football

Bear's Trestman not backing away from field goal decision
5 things to know after Seahawks rout Saints 34-7

Steelers see 'no intent' in Tomlin's wayward walk

NFL: Officials erred at end of Sunday night game
Broncos' Fox back at work after heart surgery

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Coach Steve Sarkisian takes over at USC

Basketball

Holiday lifts Pelicans to 3OT win over Bulls

Aldridge, Blazers overcome Pacers 106-102

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No. 12 Connecticut beats No. 15 Florida 65-64

Hockey

Toffoli leads Kings over Blues, 3-2

Baseball

Cubs offer contracts to pitchers Samardzija, Wood

White Sox agree to 1-yr. contract with catcher Flowers

Cardinals do not offer RHP John Axford contract

Doug Fister dealt to Nats, Jim Johnson to A's

Tigers trade RHP Fister to Nationals for 3 players

A's acquire closer Jim Johnson from O's

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Monday, Dec. 2:

Railers take Eaton championship with a 5-game sweep
Break 2005 record, allowing only 176 opponent points
By Jeff Benjamin
Scenes from the Saturday night Railer game against Cahokia — album
Wilmert tenders resignation as Ward 1 alderman
Tourism bureau now under city governance
26th annual Light Up A Life to be held Tuesday
Pride of the Prairie brings in dollars for happy vendors
- Album 1 | Album 2 | Album 3
- Album 4 | Album 5 | Album 6
A perfect respite from holiday madness: the Lincoln College Holiday Concert
Logan County trail system moving forward
Bill Thomas represents Atlanta at World Monuments Fund event
Library notes
Jordan Luczaj is the Mount Pulaski Senior-of-the-Month
Midwest Central kicks off annual Snow Buddies program
Special feature from LDN's Home for the Holidays magazine
- 'Away in a Manger'
  By Pastor Mark Thompson, Zion Lutheran Church, Lincoln
Recalls announced
State announces multimillion-dollar settlement with Midland
December is Write a Business Plan Month: How to include your marketing strategy
Police reports
Fire and rescue reports
CEL sweeps Heyworth
LC men's basketball results
Redbirds fall to Vermont on Wednesday
Redbirds take down Sonoma State on Friday
Redbirds run past San Francisco on Saturday
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