DETROIT -- You're driving down the highway and suddenly your car starts accelerating on its own. Knuckles white, going from 60 to 90 miles an hour in a couple of seconds, you do what comes naturally -- hit the brakes. But what if the car keeps going?
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NORMAL -- Heartland Community College has named three finalists in its presidential search.
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BLOOMINGTON -- The winter storm warning for the McLean County area has been canceled but has been replaced by a snow/blowing snow advisory.
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SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Pat Quinn should have fired state prison officials responsible for a secret early release program, House Speaker Michael Madigan said Tuesday.
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NORMAL -- The Days Inn, 202 Landmark Drive, was sold Tuesday to the company that holds its mortgage.
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TOKYO -- Toyota is recalling 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems -- the latest embarrassing safety lapse at the world's largest automaker.
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BLOOMINGTON -- Bloomington police have arrested four people in connection with a rash of BB-gun shootings. Authorities said more charges are possible.
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BLOOMINGTON -- A $1.5 million street resurfacing program will not solve all of the city's headaches, but officials hope it will make a few of the city streets a little less bone-jarring.
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DWIGHT -- Josh Jahn uses the silence of an empty house to make a loud statement about personal choice.
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PONTIAC -- Pontiac Township High School is still projected to end the fiscal year in the black, but uncertainties with the state may lead the district to make cuts for next year.
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STANFORD -- Students at Olympia High School will do more than play badminton and basketball in physical education classes next year.
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LINCOLN -- A 29-year-old Lincoln alderman who died unexpectedly after less than a year in office was being mourned Monday as someone who already was having an impact on the city.
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BLOOMINGTON -- The Rev. Mark Wallace spent Monday rummaging through the smoky, charred building that had housed Crossroads Chapel for the past 16 years.
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SPRINGFIELD -- The race to replace Democratic lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen on the general election ballot could become even more crowded than the original field of six candidates who vied for the office.
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JOLIET -- Days before a former suburban Chicago police officer's fourth wife vanished in 2007, she told a divorce attorney that her husband thought she suspected he had killed his previous wife and suggested extorting money from him to keep quiet, the lawyer testified Monday.
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BLOOMINGTON -- Bloomington took its lumps early in the recession, so city officials said Monday that the possibility of cutting $4 million from the city budget is not a daunting task.
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PONTIAC -- A Pontiac Correctional Center inmate faces escape charges after trying to use a dummy to fool guards.
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SOUGH STREATOR -- A Woodland school board meeting called Monday night to explain next year's expected shortages in state funding quickly turned into a discussion of more than $200,000 overpaid to some teachers over a four-year period.
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BLOOMINGTON - An asbestos-exposure lawsuit yielded a $17.87 million verdict Monday in favor of a woman who worked at a Bloomington factory in the 1960s.
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BLOOMINGTON — Results of DNA testing on several items of evidence related to the 1991 murder conviction of Donald Whalen produced no surprises, a prosecutor said Monday.
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FAIRBURY -- No one was injured during a house fire early Saturday morning in Fairbury, but a tenant and the homeowner were displaced.
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