OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft. Days ...Read more
MILWAUKEE (AP) — MillerCoors has filed a lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch, saying its St. Louis-based rival wants to “frighten” people away from Miller Lite and Coors Light by claiming those beers have corn syrup. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Wisconsin federal court but the feud ...Read more
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A monthly survey of rural bankers in parts of 10 Plains and Western states shows bankers are losing confidence in the future of the region’s farm economy in the wake of falling farm income and rising floodwaters. The Rural Mainstreet survey for March shows the ...Read more
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Officials say an early morning fire in a maintenance building at the municipal airport in DeKalb caused an estimated quarter-million dollars in damage. The city firefighters and those from neighboring communities were called to the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport at about ...Read more
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — An 82-year-old man who says he was desperate when he robbed an Illinois bank has been sentenced to 10 weekends in jail. Federal Judge Phil Gilbert told Arthur Bays that he’s never seen a criminal as old as him. He says he struggled with a sentence Thursday. Bays had a ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A woman and a young man from Chicago have been charged in the child abuse death of the woman’s 2-year-old son, who had sores and bruises on his body. Police responded Monday to an EMS call at a South Side home and Ja’hir Gibbons was pronounced dead at a ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A second lawsuit has been filed against the Illinois State Police for issuing a firearm license to the convicted felon who killed five people including a former LaSalle County Man and wounded several police officers when he opened fire at a suburban Chicago warehouse last ...Read more
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois State Police trooper was seriously injured when a semi-trailer struck him and his squad car while he was responding to a multi-vehicle accident. State police say the trooper was hit while on foot, outside of his marked vehicle about 11 p.m. Wednesday along ...Read more
HINCKLEY, Ill. (AP) — A former Hinckley Police Chief has been charged with official misconduct for allegedly recording a conversation with her boss. Kimberly Everhart was taken into custody Tuesday after being accused of illegally recording a 2017 conversation with Hinckley Village President ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The $8.7 billion expansion of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport has gotten underway. Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday joined airline executives at a groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of his plan to remake O’Hare: a $1.2 billion expansion of the ...Read more
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