Friday, March 04, 2005

posted daily OVER THE NOON HOUR  (CST)

Striking Myers workers lent a hand this week to help out two of Logan County's charities.  Pictured here are Steve Hinch from Myers, Genesis president David Alexander and Logan County Habitat for Humanity president George Dahmm.

[Picture by Butch King]  click on picture for larger image.

See story below in Today's Top Stories.

• Striking Myers workers' labor assists local charities

• School board candidates to square off

• State to focus on comprehensive highway plan that reduces loss of life

• World, national news

• Syrian leader expected to announce partial troop pullback

• Ambassador denies Sudan backed atrocities

• Bush names new EPA head

• Adventurer Fossett Completes Global Solo Flight

• More...

• Legislation prohibits no-bid contracts to contributors

• Bomke sparks up debate on flavored tobacco

• Office hours for Rep. Bill Mitchell

• Law news elsewhere

• Reward offered for information in killing of judge's relatives

• BTK: DNA, a disk and letters

• More...

• Area blood drives need support

• Serving in the military  sponsored by American Legion Post 263

• Calendar of events

• Setting TV limits for your family

• Home and garden news elsewhere

• Top 10 Ways to Make Over Your Home for Spring

• How to Splice Electrical Wires

• How To Replace a Receptacle

• Seven Keys to Privacy

• More...

• Travel news elsewhere

• Golf vacationers seek more than 19th hole for off-course fun

• Kentucky: Coal mining tourism going animatronic

• Butterflies in all their glory

• More...

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• Business news elsewhere

• Solid job growth, finally

• No let up, or pick up, for the Fed

• Big gas price surge soon?

• ChoicePoint will stop selling some consumer information

• More...

• Perfect home finale for perfect Illini
  By Greg Taylor

• I don't like senior nights
  The Illini giveth, the Illini taketh away, 84-50 over Purdue
  By Jeff Mayfield

• Sports news elsewhere

• College Basketball: Illinois, North Carolina Win

• NBA Wrap: Wade in Top Form as Heat Scorches Nets

• NBA Players of the Week

• Blind musher to run Iditarod

• ESPN.com

• SI.com

• More...

• Health news elsewhere

• Health Highlights

• Diet, Exercise a Real Shortcut to Health

• Dietary Fiber Fights High Blood Pressure

• Flu Season Hitting Its Peak

• Meth Makes Winter Deadly for Young Couple

• Maggots Make Move to Mainstream Medicine

• U.N. says AIDS could kill 80 million Africans by 2025

• Study: Experiments helped cancer patients

• Spit Test Predicts Tots' Tooth Troubles

• More...

• Personal tech news elsewhere

• Firefox gets security upgrade

• More...

Thursday, March 3:

• City briefs

• Brainstorm session planned for uses of former LDC, now Lincoln Estates

• Illinois Severe Weather Preparedness Week

  • Tornadoes

• Fairgrounds opened to Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum visitors

• Invention Mysteries: Some inventors don't need a last name

• Railers prevail against Decatur MacArthur: pictures from game

• Illinois State's State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament notes

• Plank academic all-American, Valley Scholar-Athlete

Wednesday, March 2

Tuesday, March 1

Monday, Feb. 28

Saturday, Feb. 26

Friday, Feb. 25