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CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.

MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Miami want the maximum prison sentences for five men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices.

WHEATON – A DuPage County jury has decided that a convicted killer should be put to death for the 1983 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl Naperville girl.

LONDON (AP) — A United Airlines pilot who failed a breath test shortly before he was due to take off has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — A judge has ordered psychological testing for a central Illinois man charged with plotting to blow up a federal courthouse.

LONDON (AP) — British police say that a pilot has been arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being drunk.

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors in Chicago are claiming that Northwestern University journalism students paid off a witness in an effort to prove a man was wrongly convicted.

CHICAGO (AP) — Ever since he was laid off in March, Frank Beil has been on the lookout.

CHICAGO (AP) — Two videos produced by Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network have been found in the home of a Chicago man accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, federal prosecutors said.

CHICAGO (AP) — From Greektown to Chinatown, from the Polish Triangle to Pakistani restaurants on Devon Street, Chicago has a wealth of diverse ethnic neighborhoods to explore.

CHICAGO (AP) — A fourth teen is facing murder charges in the beating death of a Chicago high school honor student last month.

CHICAGO (AP) — Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the measure back on hold.

CHARLESTON (AP) — An assistant women's basketball coach at Eastern Illinois University has died.

BENTON (AP) — An Army veteran who authorities say threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois has been indicted on a gun charge.

CHICAGO – A vote by Illinois' Medical Disciplinary Board has cleared the path for the state to start enforced a hotly debated abortion notification law.

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago men charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed an attack on a military college in India, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago zoning official has pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy, admitting he took thousands of dollars in payoffs over three years for overlooking city code violations and other favors.

CHAMPAIGN (AP) — The U.S. Army is financing a new research center at the University of Illinois to develop technology for computer networks used on battlefields and in other similarly difficult environments.

CHICAGO (AP) — Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press content next week to test whether the financially struggling company can do without it, according to a story on the Chicago Tribune's Web site.

CHICAGO (AP) — As Democratic leaders in Washington try to round up votes to pass health care reform legislation, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris on Monday stuck by his demand for a public option, calling any provision that would let states opt out not as strong.

CHICAGO (AP) — It's unclear if Illinois will start enforcing a hotly debated abortion notification law this week after all.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois hopes to save millions of dollars by releasing about 1,000 prisoners during the next few weeks, and some nonviolent inmates will be released up to a year early.

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a new study says.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — The Illinois House on Thursday passed a Democrat-driven compromise that would establish Illinois' first limits on campaign donations and avoid an embarrassing failure on one of the highest-profile ethics proposals to follow the Blagojevich scandal.