Two Democratic senators and two congressmen Saturday pledged their support to turn the mostly unused Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., into a federal prison that also would house some terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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IOWA CITY - A Big Ten championship might have been out of reach, but the thousands of Iowa fans who rushed the field at Kinnick Stadium had a different reason to celebrate Saturday.
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Over the past three months, the staff at Rock Island’s Christian Care homeless shelter has helped Fred Balzer get back on his feet. Now that the shelter has had to lay off nine of its 17 employees, he hopes to return the favor by helping solicit donations.
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Davenport officials who traveled to the Global Gaming Expo this week hope what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.
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Although separated by thousands of miles, parishioners from Prince of Peace Parish in Clinton, Iowa and the parish of La Virgen Pura y Limpia in Sapillica, Peru joined together in joint celebrations last Sunday.
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Kurt Wood, vice chancellor for clinic affairs at Palmer College of Chiropractic, said the inclusion of chiropractic into the Senate health-care bill is recognition of the “significant contribution we can make in the health-care system.”
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The Figge Art Museum is devoting gallery space for the next several years to what is arguably one of the greatest names in architectural history.
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The mutual love affair between Martina McBride and the Quad-Cities continued and grew stronger Friday night at the i wireless Center in Moline.
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SPRINGFIELD - With the economy among the top issues facing candidates for governor, some Republicans this week latched onto Illinois' growing unemployment numbers to focus on the issue.
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A Kuwaiti logistics company accused of defrauding the U.S. government on contracts for feeding troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan is one of the contractors on the massive Arsenal-based contract known as LOGCAP, officials said.
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A man who admitted to offering bribes to land multimillion-dollar, Arsenal-Island-based Iraq war contracts but who breached his plea deal with prosecutors by hiding more than $7 million from federal authorities will spend 15 more months behind bars than his original sentence.
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A journal and a lock-picking device seized during a search warrant at a Minnesota activist's home last year link him to the 2004 animal rights vandalism at the University of Iowa, federal authorities said Friday.
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American Red Cross QC Chapter Youth Disaster Preparedness Programs $7,400.00
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King's Harvest got a boost, but the Davenport Levee Improvement Commission's sprayground was the big money winner among the Riverboat Development Authority's fall grant recipients.
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ALEDO, Ill. -- A woman is being charged criminally with allowing her estranged husband to sexually abuse two children.
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SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois governor who ordered Thomson Correctional Center built said Friday he’s not worried about security if the prison eventually holds Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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While East Moline residents debate whether to start their own ambulance service, the city’s current ambulance provider has decided to open a new ambulance garage on Avenue of the Cities.
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CLINTON, Iowa — Clinton police are seeking information about a man who entered a Clinton apartment early Tuesday armed with a gun and demanded money from the resident.
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The Illinois Department of Transportation has rescheduled closing one westbound lane of Interstate 80 at the BNSF railroad bridge near Interstate 88 in Rock Island County. The closure is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning Monday and continuing through Wednesday.
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Construction work will bring lane closures to westbound Interstate 80 at the Iowa 1 interchange in Iowa City overnight Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation.
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