News Index
(from the last 7 days)

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

posted daily OVER THE NOON HOUR  (CDT)

The new Verizon Wireless store on Woodlawn Road across from Jake's Furniture celebrated its grand opening last Saturday.  Scores of Verizon Wireless representatives came to help manager Carrie Rogers get the store opened right.  Pictured, the Chamber Ambassadors along with Mayor Davis prepare to cut the big red ribbon.

[picture by Butch King]  click on picture for a larger image

• Neighborhood stop signs discussed

• Proposed business buy-up not anticipated to affect local cable services

• Governor expands emergency utility assistance to qualifying applicants

• Boy Scouts Order of the Arrow's 'One Day of Service'

• Gov. Blagojevich attends re-created White House state dinner

• World, national news

• Benedict XVI: German cardinal elected pope

• Oklahoma City marks decade since bombing

• Health causing Hyde to step down

• More...

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• Chamber hosting Office Professionals Luncheon

• NEED A JOB? FIND IT HERE!    (2)

• Legal notices    (3)

• Classifieds    (11)

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• Business news elsewhere

• GM Has $1.91 Bln Loss, Worst Since '92

• More...

• Carroll Catholic first-grader named the 2005 state handwriting champion

• Zonta Health Career Scholarship winners

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• Lincoln racers doing well too

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• Chicken dinner

• Serving in the military  sponsored by American Legion Post 263

• Calendar of events

• Olympia Raiders win tournament

• Cook update

• Sports news elsewhere

• NBA: Iverson Guides Philadelphia Into Postseason

• AL Wrap: Yankees Respond to Criticism with 19-Run Blitz

• NL Wrap: Langerhans Homer Lifts Braves Over Astros

• MNF to ESPN, NFL back on NBC

• ESPN.com

• SI.com

• More...

• Health news elsewhere

• Health Highlights

• Happy People Make for Healthy People

• Food pyramid changing; will Americans?

• Obesity: Bad For Men, Women and Kids

• Statins May Halve Advanced Prostate Cancer Risk

• More...

• Agriculture news elsewhere

• Corn planting 14% complete

• 3rd Florida County Identifies Rust

• Payment Limits Still on President's Agenda

• Circling the wagons at the CAFTA corral

• More...

• Personal tech news elsewhere

• Why is Start so s l o w ?

• Can I delete Windows update files?

• To be or not to be a gadget-minded geek

• Encarta lets everyone be an editor

• More...

Monday, April 18:

• 2005 Lincoln Speedway opens with 'vroom'
  By Tom Seggelke

  • Lincoln Speedway pictures

• C-SPAN and Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum essay contest winners congratulated at lunch with first lady Patti Blagojevich

• State to conduct hearings in 10 communities on inmate re-entry impact

• Letters:

  • National championship: 'They were there'

  • New season already a reminder of deadly tornadoes

• Mutterings: Cards sweep Brewers and into first place
  Cubs dump Bucos, Sox take two of three from Seattle
  By Jeff Mayfield

• LC weekend baseball

• Illinois profiles: Fox Ridge State Park, located eight miles south of Charleston in central Illinois

Saturday, April 16

Friday, April 15

Thursday, April 14

Wednesday, April 13

Tuesday, April 12