Average fuel prices fall across Texas The Examiner Comments HOUSTON (Map, News) - Retail gasoline prices are falling this week heading into the July 4th holiday. | The weekly AAA Texas gasoline price survey released Thursday shows the average price of regular unleaded self-serve fell by four cents this week to $2.49 per gallon. It also fell four cen...
States without budgets as key deadline passes Philadelphia Daily News | JUDY LIN | The Associated Press | SACRAMENTO, Calif. - States from coast to coast began a new fiscal year Wednesday with no budget plans and with cash quickly running out, sending some to the brink of shutdown and forcing others to furlough workers and cut services. | In California, Gov. Arnold Sc...
Downturn dating: Hearts flutter as markets stutter The Examiner Comments CHICAGO (Map, News) - Credit the recession for "staycations" and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. | Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of ...
Ill. pilot's business scatters ashes from plane The Examiner Comments BELLEVILLE, Ill. (Map, News) - Six feet under? Try 2,500 feet over. | A southern Illinois pilot says he's designed a new way to let people who want to be cremated spread their ashes. | John Whitney Sr. of Belleville is offering to take the a...
Ill. man indicted in 2 stabbing deaths The Examiner Comments WATSEKA, Ill. (Map, News) - A 27-year-old northeast Illinois man has been indicted in the stabbing deaths of two men. | An Iroquois County grand jury has indicted Brian Garrett of Watseka of four counts of first-degree murder. | Garrett is a...
Del Frisco's steak house is struggling financially Philadelphia Daily News | By Jane M. Von Bergen | Inquirer Staff Writer Inside the magnificent palace of commerce that was once the First Pennsylvania Bank, diners in pinstripes order prime porterhouse steaks or sip espresso martinis at the sinuous Del Frisco's bar. | Avera...
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Study measures impact of deer in Lake County The Examiner Comments WAUKEGAN, Ill. (Map, News) - The Lake County Forest Preserve District has formed a partnership with Southern Illinois University-Carbondale researchers to measure the dama...
Toshiba pits Normal against Boring in ad plans The Examiner Comments NORMAL, Ill. (Map, News) - When Toshiba went looking for the everyday ways people use laptop computers for an advertising campaign, it decided to focus on two towns whose ...
A few US cities hope to host Gitmo transplants The Examiner Comments MARION, Ill. (Map, News) - Once the nation's most secure prison, the federal lockup in southern Illinois has housed everyone from spies to a Colombian druglord to dapper mob boss John Gotti. | Now the mayor of Marion hopes to roll out the we...
Lugar co-hosts forum for young undocumented aliens The Examiner Comments EVANSVILLE, Ind. (Map, News) - Aides to Sen. Richard Lugar will hold a forum in Evansville on July 22 on legislation to help young, undocumented immigrants earn legal status by obtaining an education and completing national or public service...
Umbilical cord blood banking and donations bill passed in Ohio The Examiner 1 comment | Newborn baby by Brailean | Dreamstime.com | | Last Wednesday, the Ohio legislature passed a bill, 97-0, supporting umbilical cord blood and stem cell banking. This means that the Ohio house has passed an ethical research alternative to embryonic stem cells, according to Steven Ertelt, editor of Lifenews.co...
Chicago Computer Problem Stalls United Airlines Flights The New York Times | The Fourth of July weekend started slowly on Thursday for thousands of travelers as United Airlines struggled to repair a computer problem at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, causing delays that rippled across the country and long lines that snaked through the terminal. | The problem was apparently limited to the airline's self-service ch...
