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Huckabee Issues Response To Dem's Birther Charge

Bedford Patch | Posted 05.30.2012

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Prior to tonight's 2012 New Hampshire GOP Victory Dinner, where former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee spoke to a crowd of more than 700 Republic...

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White Supremacist Jailed In Racist Arson Case

Shorewood, IL Patch | Joseph Hosey | Posted 05.30.2012

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A Joliet white supremacist and disciple of incarcerated hate-monger Matt Hale was arrested today on charges he torched the home of eight black childre...

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Emergency Motion Filed in Peterson Murder Case

Bolingbrook, IL Patch | Joseph Hosey | Posted 05.24.2012

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An emergency motion to "limit electronic communication" was filed Wednesday in the Drew Peterson murder case and could be argued during a hearing Frid...

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GOP Sounds Alarm On Nazi Insult

Concord Patch | Posted 05.23.2012

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The state Republican Party is condemning an editorial cartoon in today's Concord Monitor that depicts House Speaker William O'Brien with a Hitler-styl...

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Woman Charged With DUI In Crash That Killed 8-Year-old

Skokie, IL Patch | Andrea Hart | Posted 05.23.2012

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A 23-year-old Skokie woman has been charged in the crash that killed an 8-year-old boy, according to a police statement released Wednesday. Hanin G...

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Barrington Hills Couple Found Dead, Murder Suicide Suspected

Lake Zurich, IL Patch | Morgan Delack | Posted 05.10.2012

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Police are on the scene of an apparent murder-suicide in Barrington Hills this morning. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office tells Barrington ...

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Mitt's New House Will Be Six Times Bigger Than Average American's

La Jolla Patch | Posted 04.23.2012

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As the race for the White House heats up, political pundits will hammer away at the candidates looking for weak spots in their armor. One question tha...

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Man Dies After Electrocution While Trimming Tree

Lemont, IL Patch | Cari Barcas | Posted 04.22.2012

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A man from the Lemont area died Friday after being electrocuted while trimming a tree in DuPage County near the village, according to a Chicago Tribun...

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12-Year-Old Boy Dies After Baseball Accident

Oswego, IL Patch | Steven Jack | Posted 04.14.2012

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A 12-year-old Oswego boy has died from injuries suffered Wednesday while playing baseball for the Oswego Panthers 12U Orange traveling team. Accord...

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Baseball Team Comes Together Over Tragedy

| Posted 04.06.2012

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By Michael Sewall "We learned a lot about what really matters this week," Lincoln-Way Central coach Sean Bieterman said. "There are more important...

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Ron Paul Reveals What He's 'Sick Of'

Riverdale Patch | Posted 03.30.2012

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About eight months after President Barack Obama addressed unemployment and the national debt at Ritchie Coliseum, a man who hopes to take his job disc...

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Forget Book Clubs, Pinterest Parties Are The Next Big Thing

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.29.2012

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The next big thing to hit your living room could be Pinterest. In a "CBS This Morning" report aired March 29, CBS revealed how some creative Pinte...

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Former Mexican President Fox Wows Students

Posted 03.03.2012

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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox made time Friday to speak to Coronado Middle School students, encouraging them to value their educational opportu...

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Aww. Teen Firefighter Asks Classmate To Prom Atop Ladder!

| Eric Campbell | Posted 03.02.2012

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If you heard a dull roar emanating from Lower Merion High School on Tuesday, it may have been the collective grumblings of all the senior guys who are...

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WATCH: Teen Survives Heart Attack, Returns To Basketball Court

Posted 02.24.2012

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Here at HuffPost High School, we've been hearing a ton of inspiring high school basketball stories lately ("Linderella" stories, in some cases!). The ...

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4 Michigan Students Suspended For Distributing 'Skank List'

Patch | Posted 02.17.2012

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This month, dozens of Dearborn families got an unwanted letter in their mailboxes: a so-called "skank list" with their daughters' names on it. The ...

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How Dangerous Is Skateboarding?

| Posted 02.06.2012

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Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

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Teacher Killed, College Student Injured In Bar Stabbing

Naperville, IL Patch | Mary Ann Lopez | Posted 02.04.2012

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Police had a suspect in custody early Saturday in connection with an overnight stabbing at a Naperville bar that left one man dead and another in seri...

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Torn Between Three Teams... No Longer Feeling Like a Fool

Tom Davis | Posted 04.04.2012

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If you want some sense of what it's like to live in a happy sports utopia, where three football cultures broken apart by bitter rivalries can break bread and live life in peace -- and not in pieces -- come to the Jersey Shore.

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Local High School Considers Selling Ad Space, Inviting Sponsors For Academic Buildings

Glencoe, IL Patch | Michelle Martin | Posted 01.20.2012

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New Trier Township High School District 203 school board members said Monday night that they are amenable to possibly allowing some advertising on sch...

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Protesters Plan To Counter Pro-Walker Rally

Patch.com | By Jim Price | Posted 01.20.2012

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Protests of some kind are being planned Saturday afternoon to counter the Celebrate Walker rally in Hart Park in Wauwatosa, according to several sourc...

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Man Faces Felony Charge After Throwing, Killing Kitten

Palatine, IL Patch | Brian SlupskiEmail the Author | Posted 01.07.2012

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A Palatine man who picked up and threw a kitten has been charged with felony animal cruelty. Palatine Police Cmdr. Mike Seebacher said 33-year-old ...

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Suburban Resident, Gulag Survivor Makes First Trip To Homeland Since 1939 Over Holidays

Western Springs, IL Patch | Darren McRoyEmail the Author | Posted 01.03.2012

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Sometimes people ask Adam Szymel about his education. He tells them that he has a doctorate in "life experience." The 82-year-old Western Springs r...

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Over 200 New State Laws Go Into Effect Jan. 1

Naperville, IL Patch | Amanda LuevanoEmail the Author | Posted 12.22.2011

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As the clock strikes midnight Jan. 1, more than 200 new laws will go into effect in Illinois, including a database of first-degree murderers, stricter...

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Local Native Is NHL's First Cuban-American Player

Glenview, IL Patch | George CastleEmail the Author | Posted 12.22.2011

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Al Montoya is proud to be a Cuban-America -- the first to play in the National Hockey League -- but his sports upbringing is definitely classic All-Am...

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