Village Pantry robber to serve time
A rural Lafayette woman who admitted to robbing the same Lafayette convenience store three times over a period of several months will spend five years in prison.

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Eagle Mountain couple foster kids from drug homes
EAGLE MOUNTAIN — Detective Earl Rose is in the middle of his drug presentation — the part where he shows the picture of a heroin addict whose arms are covered with oozing sores — when a girl in the

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Here ends the gospel according to Oprah, the richest black woman
Once upon a time, before the infiltration of the internet and cable television, the sauciest age-inappropriate viewing available to a teenage girl featured sofas, pot plants and roving mikes.

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London man gets 8 years for deadly drunk-driving crash
An eight-year sentence has been handed down in the case of a London, Ont., man, who drove drunk last year and wound up killing three people, two of them children.

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Homeless Dropouts From High School Lured by For-Profit Colleges
April 30 (Bloomberg) — Benson Rollins wants a college degree. The unemployed high school dropout who attends Alcoholics Anonymous and has been homeless for 10 months is being courted by the University of Phoenix . Two of its recruiters got themselves invited to a Cleveland shelter last October and pitched the advantages of going to the country’s largest for-profit college to 70 destitute men.

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6 Ways for Teenagers to Take Control of Their Health
It’s important for teens, not just adults, to know how to navigate the healthcare system, author says.

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KCSU DJ Profile: DJ Clover
Real name: Stephanie Sullivan Show: Coffee Jams, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 10 a.m.

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Lennon Lyric Sheet Could Fetch $700,000 at Auction
Filed under: News , UK Handwritten lyrics from John Lennon are expected to reach up to $700,00 (£460,000) when they go on auction in June. The double-sided sheet of paper, containing lyrics for the Beatles song ‘A Day in the Life’, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York on June 18, reports the BBC . Not only will the winning bidder get the lyrics, but they will also be proud owner of …

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More students seeking help with pot addiction
CHICO — Chico State’s Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Center often sees the problem of addiction up close and personal.

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Off duty NJ trooper’s alcohol-related traffic stops come under scrutiny
TRENTON — It had all the makings of a routine motor vehicle stop. Police officer Ronald Gorneau spotted a silver Toyota swerving and pulled it over. The driver, Sheila McKaig, admitted she had drunk “a lot” before getting behind the wheel, according to the incident report.

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Police cleared over taser-linked death
The Coroner’s Court has cleared police of any wrongdoing in the death of a 49 year old drug addict in police custody.

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Phillip Pullman Takes On the Gospel of Christ
Or, as his enemies might say, the infamy. Among the consequences of his having written is his emergence as a target of fundamentalist Christians, who find his works offensive and sometimes blasphemous. Pullman insists he’s primarily a storyteller, but his best-known books are easily read as hostile to religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular. Some have even been banned from …

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Drunk Driving Demonstration
Medford Senior turns a tragic event into a warning against drunk driving. read more

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Alcoholics who stay sober have healthier brain reward systems than those who relapse
(PhysOrg.com) — In a study of alcoholics who entered treatment for drinking, those who stayed sober for at least one year had the same levels of key biochemical indicators of brain health as non-alcoholic controls at the time they entered treatment. In contrast, the study showed, those who relapsed during that year had significantly lower levels of those indicators.

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Edgar County Court News – Substance abuse sends woman back to prison
A history of substance abuse worked against efforts to secure a new probation sentence for Summer D. Cusick.

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Pat Kennedy cut off by bartender: report
Actions speak louder than words: Hard-partying JFK relative Rep. Patrick Kennedy was caught slamming so many vodka shots that the bartender cut him off — just hours after giving a speech where he discussed his longtime substance abuse woes, Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill blog reported today. The…

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Illinois Community Calendar
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Warrenheip man jailed for George Hotel theft
A DRUG dealer given a suspended jail sentence two months ago was not so lucky upon his return to court yesterday.

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