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March 27, 2014
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LDN -- Top Stories

Cub Scouts partner with local hospice ministry

Paul Schwantz, Aidan Alaniz, Peyton Schwantz, Porter Schwantz and David Morrow (left to right), all members of Lincoln Cub Scout Pack 101, presented an assortment of handmade cards and handicrafts to Safe Haven Hospice staff to give to their patients. Safe Haven nursing staff members Kelly Davis, Debi Reed and Kelly Gonzales are pictured accepting the crafts. Pack 101 is led by Dana Alaniz, cubmaster. Safe Haven Hospice, based in downtown Lincoln, serves over 40 hospice patients in central Illinois.

Photo by Marcia Cook, Safe Haven Hospice (Click on image for larger version.)

Announcement: District 1 Logan County Board member Bill Martin of Atlanta died Wednesday. Our sympathies to the Martin family and friends. (Funeral information)

Mount Pulaski High School in top 25 for $10,000 MTI grant
Needs community support with Facebook votes to win

A thinker ahead of his time: LCU remembers James D. Strauss

From the office of the development partnership
Office space for rent at Regions Bank
Special meeting of county board at noon Friday
Column:
Home fruit tree spray schedules and lawn tips
By John Fulton
Park district brings group music classes to Lincoln
Tickets still available for Spring for Tea

Latest Farm Futures producer survey reveals planting intentions

Illinois to receive federal specialty crop grant money

Race, photography and history

State's historical library salutes a pioneer

County meeting minutes:

Building and grounds, Jan. 7
Animal control, Jan. 8
Insurance and legislative, Jan. 8

Day Planner

Logan County Board and committee meeting schedule

Lincoln City Council 2014 meeting schedule

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7 p.m. — Ag Scholarship Breakfast

10 a.m. — Butterflies Kids' Sale

Noon — Mount Pulaski Rotary lunch

3:30 p.m. — Art and craft class

Friday

10 a.m. -- Butterflies Kids' Sale

5:30 p.m. -- Lenten Fish fry dinner

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Lawmakers: $31 billion in temporary taxes won’t cut it
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Yesterday's Top Stories

Contract extension for interim executive director of the Lincoln & Logan County Development Partnership
Progress report on world's largest covered wagon
- Album 1 | Album 2 | Album 3
Boy Scouts serve up hundreds of delicious pork BBQ meals
- Album 1 | Album 2
Ed Jodlowski named new Olympia High School principal
Ashlan Broom is the ZLS Student of the Month
Easter Seals becomes first CARF-accredited autism program in central Illinois
Employers add 6,400 jobs and rate holds at 8.7 percent
Unemployment data best since 2009
Madigan: Phusion agrees to ban alcoholic energy drinks
Illinois' first comprehensive study of youth who have sexually offended finds they are highly amenable to treatment and unlikely to reoffend

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Announcement: District 1 Logan County Board member Bill Martin of Atlanta died Wednesday. Our sympathies to the Martin family and friends.

Mount Pulaski High School in top 25 for $10,000 MTI grant
Needs community support with Facebook votes to win
A thinker ahead of his time: LCU remembers James D. Strauss
From the office of the development partnership
Office space for rent at Regions Bank
Special meeting of county board at noon Friday
Column:
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By John Fulton
Park district brings group music classes to Lincoln
Tickets still available for Spring for Tea

Latest Farm Futures producer survey reveals planting intentions

Illinois to receive federal specialty crop grant money

Race, photography and history

State's historical library salutes a pioneer

County meeting minutes:

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Paul Boatman, Hartem FFA hunter clinic, HSLC garage sale, benefit for Lyndie Jones, Mount Pulaski pickup dates for landscape waste

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State

Illinois Governor's Budget Would Make Tax Hike Permanent

National

Two Firefighters Killed In Historic Boston Neighborhood Blaze

Hopes Fade As 25th Body Found In Washington State Mudslide

Montana Bride Accused In Husband's Cliff Death To Be Sentenced

Jury Convicts Bin Laden Son-In-Law On Terrorism Charges

Texas Set To Execute Man Who Killed Food Delivery Woman With Bat

California State Senator Arrested In FBI Sweep

Boston Marathon Report Details 'Missed Opportunities' Among Law Enforcement

Hospital Ratings Show Sharp Differences In Safety, Chance Of Dying

California Case Challenges Teacher Job Protection Laws

Politics, Government & Elections

White House Defends Extension Of Obamacare Deadline

Lawmakers Bash Obama Administration's 'Delusional' Syria Policy

U.S. Jobs Market Dropouts Increasingly Likely To Stay Out

U.S. Database For Tracking Medicaid Frauds Falls Short, Auditor Says

Democratic Tax Credit Bill Aids Poor, Cuts Corporate Breaks

Fractious Republicans Struggle Over Defense Spending, Medicare

U.S. Navy Plans Competition For Next-Generation Missile

Connecticut Legislature Approves Bill To Raise Minimum Wage

Virginia Lawmakers Recess Without Medicaid, Budget Deal

Corruption Scandal Makes Washington Democratic Primary A Dead Heat

Law Firm Hired By New Jersey Governor To Release Report On 'Bridgegate'

International

Weather Frustrates Hunt For Missing Malaysian Jet As New Leads Reported

IMF Throws Ukraine Financial Lifeline, Russian Economy To Slump

U.N. Security Council To Meet Thursday On North Korea Missile Launch

Iran Fuel Price Hikes Will Be Big Test For Rouhani

Philippines, Muslim Rebels Sign Final Peace Deal To End Conflict

China To Strengthen Internet Security After U.S. Spying Report

ODD & Extraordinary

Shark Gives Florida Student Two-Hour Ride, Stars In YouTube Video
Abandoned 27 Years Ago, 'Burger King Baby' Finds Mother

Science, Technology and the Environment

How Low Can You Go? This Whale Is The Champion Of Deep Diving

Scientists Publish 'Navigation Maps' For Human Genome
Step Aside Saturn: Little Asteroid Has Rings Too

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From the office of the development partnership
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Lincoln & Mason City IGA is the Chamber Business of the Week

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National

Experts urge U.S. caution on additional cyber threat disclosures

GE to build $100-million jet engine plant in Indiana

Bank of America to pay $9.3 billion to settle mortgage bond claims
Judge tosses lawsuit against Facebook over use of minors' photos
Facebook takes page out of Google playbook with Oculus deal

Microsoft, Dell seal Android, Chrome royalty pact

Ex-MP3tunes chief hit with estimated $41 million copyright verdict
U.S. Senate panel sets April 2 hearing on GM auto recalls
Exclusive: GM's new recall risk — the spare parts market

Murdoch sets up sons to take over media empire

Fed policies effective but 'room for debate,' Bullard says
Ergen says LightSquared could be worth $8.9 billion

International

Chinese developers seek alternative financing as investors grow wary
Plane, car deals mark Chinese state visit to France

Russia renews plan for domestic alternative to Visa, Mastercard

Boeing sees Latin American market share at least 50 percent
Some airlines mull quitting Venezuela over debts: IATA
Peugeot signs Dongfeng deal; recovery hurdles remain

Budget carrier Ryanair in plan to lure more business customers

Energy

U.S. crude gains $1 to top $100/bbl on Cushing drawdown

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Wall Street drops on Russia worry as techs, materials drag

Asia shares in fragile mood, Nikkei tests support
U.S. over-counter trading tightens reporting, other standards
UBS suspends four more traders in forex probe: report
S&P wants to split up $5 billion U.S. ratings lawsuit

European bets help Delaware team grab top Lipper award

Candy Crush maker King Digital shares sour in market debut

Fed bars shareholder payouts from Citi, four others

SEC inches closer to money market fund final rule

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Illinois grain prices in country elevators

Latest Farm Futures producer survey reveals planting intentions

Illinois to receive federal specialty crop grant money

Logan County FSA program update
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USDA update on livestock disaster programs
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Monday the Lincoln Christian University community and the Logan County community said their goodbyes to a much-loved professor and friend, Dr. James D. Strauss. Strauss was much loved by his students and greatly respected as a professor by his peers. This week the university submitted a tribute to Dr. Strauss to area media. LDN has published the tribute in its Top Stories section today as well as in the Teaching & Learning section below, where it will remain for the next few days, allowing everyone an opportunity to find it quickly.

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Paul Boatman to speak at writing club

Hartsburg-Emden FFA to host Hunter Safety Clinic

HSLC seeks donations for annual garage sale

Benefit for infant Lyndie Jones

City of Mount Pulaski announces pickup dates for landscape waste

Community News & Events

Tickets still available for Spring for Tea

Boy Scouts serve up hundreds of delicious pork BBQ meals

Album 1 | Album 2

Relay For Life to have booth at Community Health Fair

Pastor Robert Henderson resigns from First Baptist Church

Lincoln City Council meeting schedule (PDF)

Logan County Board committee meeting schedule
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911 / ETSB scheduled meetings for 2014

Library notes

Park district notes

YMCA notes

Community Calendar of Events

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Mount Pulaski High School in top 25 for $10,000 MTI grant
Needs community support with Facebook votes to win

A thinker ahead of his time: LCU remembers James D. Strauss

Ed Jodlowski named new Olympia High School principal

Ashlan Broom is the ZLS Student of the Month

Registration now open for Girl Scouts of Central Illinois summer camps

West Lincoln-Broadwell serves up a hearty breakfast

Album 1 | Album 2

Lincoln Christian Seminary students refreshed by retreat

West Lincoln-Broadwell third-quarter honor roll

IDNR awards Illinois Biodiversity Field Trip Grant to schools
Lincoln College on the 2013 list of recipients

LCU offers early registration for new undergraduate adults

Chelsea Siembida is the Mount Pulaski Senior-of-the-Month
School websites
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Friends and Family in the Military

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Senior Life

Article update March 18

6 signs your retirement plan is in trouble ... Online fraud: Are you next? ... Illinois Department of Insurance warns about the dangers of stranger-originated life insurance arrangements, or STOLIs ... Millions of MSNs are undeliverable: Are you getting yours? ... Elderly profit from group meetings and home visits ... Christian Village offers 'Almost Home' temporary apartment ... Olympians of Social Security
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Being Surrounded

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Marriages, civil unions
Dissolutions
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Obituaries:
Most recent:
- Blemler, Judith J. Read, 94
- Ingram, Robin L., 57
- Jario, James D., 91
- Martin, George William "Bill" Jr., 67

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- Relay For Life to have booth at Community Health Fair
Logan County Department of Public Health food inspection scores
Births at ALMH

National, International

India declared
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China regulators order end to smog insurance sales
Hospital ratings show sharp differences in safety, chance of dying
Novartis says lung cancer patients respond to drug in study
Alimera makes fourth bid for eye treatment approval from FDA
Australia demands opponents stop stalling WTO tobacco case
Planned Parenthood, Arizona in court over abortion drug rules
U.S. extends Obamacare sign-up deadline in case of tech troubles
British cost agency to take broader view of drug value
GSK links with top labs on 'big data' drug project

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Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

In Canada snowdrifts, Coen brothers' 'Fargo' gets cable TV treatment

Rising Israeli maestro Wellber loves Strauss, accordion too
Pacifica Radio in turmoil as ousted executive stages sit-in
'Scandal' actor Short charged in felony battery case
'Frozen' hits sales high note, holds throne on top of Billboard
German recluse Gurlitt to return Nazi-looted art: media

Food, Family and Fun

Park district brings group music classes to Lincoln
Outdoors with Babe Winkelman
Fishing off the beaten path: the oxbow
Slim Randles' Home Country
Shakespearean dentistry
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Out & About

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Indiana Pacers forward Evan Turner (12) shoots the ball during the third quarter with Miami Heat forward Chris Andersen (11) defending at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The Pacers won 84-83.

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Today's Top Sports Stories

Basketball

Turner, Pacers Hold Off Heat

Knicks Bounce Back, Knock Off Kings
Raptors Extend Division Lead With Win Over Celtics
Suns Hold Off Wizards For Fifth Straight Win
Late Rally Pushes Grizzlies Past Jazz
Waiters' Buzzer-Beater Pushes Cavs Past Pistons

Duncan Leads Spurs To 15th Straight Win

Short-Handed Pelicans Grind Out Win Vs. Clippers
Wolves Rout Hawks To Snap Three-Game Skid
Bobcats Use A Little Luck To Beat Nets In OT
NBA standings

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Southern Methodist 67, California 65
Florida State 78, Louisiana Tech 75

Hockey

Ducks Prevail In Rematch With Flames

Booth Nets Pair, Canucks Beat Wild 5-2
Rangers Earn Big Division Game Vs. Flyers
Preview: Blackhawks At Bruins
NHL standings

Baseball

Dodgers Ace Kershaw Sidelined By Minor Back Injury

MLB player notes

Tennis

Nishikori Stuns Federer To Reach Miami Semis

Football

Bengals Quiet As Johnson Leaves In Free Agency

More Sports

Vettel Blasts Quieter Engines, Says Bad For Fans

World Skating Chief Defends Under-Fire Sochi Judging
R&A Chief Dawson Worried By Rio Olympic Course Delays

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