AP Wire News en-us Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:10:10 GMT Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:10:10 GMT 5 iNEWS AP Wire Story Listing Generator http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/3e9cfa53-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal agents and Wilmette Police Chief Brian King have announced the arrest of two suspects in last year's $119,000 robbery of a Fifth Third Bank branch in the northern Chicago suburb. AP News www.wics.com-3e9cfa53 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/399cf9fb-www.wics.com.shtml CAMBRIDGE, Ill. (AP) -- For the second time this month, leaders of the Henry County Democratic Party are meeting to elect a new county party chairman. AP News www.wics.com-399cf9fb http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/329cf69a-www.wics.com.shtml ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican Bill Brady took rhetorical shots at each other in one of their first joint appearances following victories in their respective gubernatorial primaries. AP News www.wics.com-329cf69a http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/349cf4f6-www.wics.com.shtml ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn says he'll single out a favorite to become the Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor some time next week. AP News www.wics.com-349cf4f6 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/359cf4b2-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- A suburban Chicago lawyer has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman who is tied to a case he is handling in Cook County Circuit Court. AP News www.wics.com-359cf4b2 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/369cf3f4-www.wics.com.shtml URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- People on campus at the University of Illinois captured a syringe-wielding robber and held him until police arrived. AP News www.wics.com-369cf3f4 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/3d9cf241-www.wics.com.shtml DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- A Chicago man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for his role in a 2007 crime spree in Illinois that left a sheriff's deputy dead and ended after a hostage standoff. AP News www.wics.com-3d9cf241 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/299cf1f1-www.wics.com.shtml SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The list of people interested in becoming the Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor just keeps growing. AP News www.wics.com-299cf1f1 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/2e9cf1e6-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- Cook County Sheriff's investigators have arrested a man on suspicion of raping a 13-year-old girl -- four years after a police department received DNA evidence linking him to the crime but did nothing about it. AP News www.wics.com-2e9cf1e6 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/3f9cf17b-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- The American Medical Association is announcing its qualified support for President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation. AP News www.wics.com-3f9cf17b http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/3e9cefcb-www.wics.com.shtml DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- Police arrested five Decatur high school students as the officers tried to break up a fight that involved up to 200 people. AP News www.wics.com-3e9cefcb http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/259ceeac-www.wics.com.shtml GENEVA (AP) -- Operators of the world's largest atom smasher today ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved. AP News www.wics.com-259ceeac http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/229cee74-www.wics.com.shtml BALTIMORE (AP) -- Baltimore prosecutors say the trial for a man charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed a Johns Hopkins student from the Chicago area has been postponed. AP News www.wics.com-229cee74 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/2a9ceddf-www.wics.com.shtml NEW DELHI (AP) -- Authorities in India plan to ask the United States to let them question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. AP News www.wics.com-2a9ceddf http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/249cec51-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes a close look at one short and enigmatic phase in the 65-year-long artistic career of France's Henri Matisse. AP News www.wics.com-249cec51 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/3a9ce9dd-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois will get more than $15 million in stimulus grants and loans for water system improvement projects. AP News www.wics.com-3a9ce9dd http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/369ce9b8-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- Planning is under way in Illinois for Earth Hour, a campaign to highlight the threat of climate change. AP News www.wics.com-369ce9b8 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/3a9ce9b3-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- Survivors of deadly staph infections are urging federal health officials to declare MRSA a health epidemic. AP News www.wics.com-3a9ce9b3 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/339ce9b1-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- The November election is months away, but the political parties will soon know in what order they'll appear on the ballot in Cook County. AP News www.wics.com-339ce9b1 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/339ce9b2-www.wics.com.shtml SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois taxpayers now have a new way to track state-funded grants. AP News www.wics.com-339ce9b2 http://www.wics.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.il/229ce9a8-www.wics.com.shtml CHICAGO (AP) -- Mayor Richard Daley has appointed a new leader to Chicago's gay advisory council. AP News www.wics.com-229ce9a8 http://www.wics.com/