HEAT INDEX NOW 107 !

 PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION DURING OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES

Water -- cool, delicious, refreshing -- is the key to survival the next few days. Keep out of the heat if you can, drink lots of water, and think cool thoughts  (fountain in Scully Park).

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• McIntosh announces intent to run for Republican Party Logan County state's attorney nomination

• First-place men's softball team

• 'Tacklin' Football III' -- a ladies-only football clinic

Major League Baseball

• NL roundup: Cards beat Padres

• AL roundup:  Angels beat Schilling and Red Sox

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Cardinals tie record in 10-run fifth

• Astros beat Cubs 2-1 in 10

• Bonds stays put at 755

• Sports news elsewhere

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• Current obituaries

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Monday, Aug. 6:

• Heat advisory issued for Tuesday through Thursday

• Recall information

• Minneapolis to face commuting test

• 1,400 gather at bridge collapse memorial

• Probe to see if construction played role

• Technology aids collapse investigation

• Campus safety on orientation agendas

• Taliban warn of more kidnappings

• Korean troops exchange fire along border

• Energy search goes underground

• Analysis: Hillary dances to defend Bill

• House OKs new taxes on oil companies

• House nears approval of Pentagon budget

• S.C. teen falls 6 stories, walks away

• Sorry about the bombs; here's your bill

• Man finds 19th-century periodicals

• Today in history

• The nation's weather

• Wall Street awaits Fed rate decision

• Fall defoliators
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• Scramble winners

• 4-H and Cake Classic auction totals

• Logan County Cake Classic results and recipes

• Grand marshals announced for Illinois State Fair Twilight Parade

• Mount Pulaski water mains to be flushed Tuesday and Wednesday

• Course helps churches handle offenders

• Reminder: Mount Pulaski Grade School registration set

• Three new cases of West Nile virus in Illinois bring total number of human cases to 6

• A Redbird practice full of firsts

• NL roundup: Tom Glavine wins 300th game

• AL roundup:  Yankees close in on AL wild card

• Bonds hits 755th homer to tie Aaron

• Rodriguez hits 500th homer

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• LPGA Tour: Ochoa wins first major title at Open

• Woods wins Bridgestone Invitational

Saturday, Aug. 4

Friday, Aug. 3

Thursday, Aug. 2

Wednesday, Aug. 1

Tuesday, July 31