Dec. 12

• Salvation Army scrambles to have a successful Red Kettle campaign

• Lincoln Area Music Society holds winter concert

• Winter coats from St. John UCC top 2,000

• Lincoln College Music Department's 'A Winter Music Concert' -- album

• Hartem Music Department presents 'A Winter Concert' -- album

• Postal Service closures will be 'a mess'

• Report: Ill. poverty remains worse after recession

• Rod Blagojevich's strangest moments

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Dec. 8

• Breaking news 1:20 p.m.
  Virginia Tech confirms police officer, 1 other person killed in shootings on campus

• Blagojevich begins bleak countdown to prison

• Ex-prosecutor says Blagojevich sentence stiff, but he has no one to blame but self, actions

• Blagojevich likely to lose $65,000 state pension

• District 27 holiday band concert -- album

• Madigan, attorneys general nationwide fight against robo-calls to cellphones

• Fed crackdown on online food stamp fraud empowers Ill.

• Illinois hunters bag 97,000 deer during firearm season

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Dec. 7

• Breaking News 1:30 p.m.
  Blagojevich gets 14 years in prison for corruption

• City Briefs: Trash, derelict property and more

• Food pantry drive brings in $7,000

• Elks Lodge opens new restaurant

• Chris Huff promoted to office manager at development partnership

• St. Nicholas Day celebrated in Emden

• St. Nicholas Day in Emden -- album

• Blagojevich lawyer: Don’t punish him for state history

• 13th Amendment copy restored by conservator, to return to Lincoln Presidential Museum

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• Humane Society tree of lights, live Nativity at Zion Lutheran, 'It's a Wonder-full Life,' Christmas cookie walk, park district's outdoor decorating contest, Joseph Ahrends and Dylan List make Close Up

Dec. 6

• Council agrees on BlueStar; alternate energy provider question on March ballot

• Illinois AG, CUB push for $41.1 million electric rate cut for Ameren customers

• Chamber seeks nominations for Pride & Progress awards

• Candidates for election file petitions

• Illinois eyes less money from feds in future

• USDA FSA increases guaranteed loan limit for farmers

• November: an interesting month for weather in Illinois

• Multiple changes in teacher certifications in Illinois

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