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MORRISON – The state Board of Education is awaiting court paperwork before suspending the license of a former Fulton High School English teacher convicted this week of having sex with a 16-year-old boy. Nicole R. Letcher, 26, of Fulton, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced to 6 months in jail – half of which she’s already served – and 4 years of probation. She also must register as a sex offender. As part of her plea agreement, Whiteside County prosecutors dropped three other sexual abuse charges. By state law, an aggravated criminal...

Dixon– I guess you could say the Ronald Reagan cookbooks, “Dutch Treats from Dixon,” are a success. A sellout before they even were printed. But, never fear, you still can get them. “It took us nearly a year to collect and edit recipes, to take photos and to assemble the cookbook. We sent it to the publisher, with an order of 300 books,” said Connie Lange, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home. “Within two weeks, the pre-sales were up to 320, more books than the committee had ordered.” The book includes 650 recipes, divided into nine categories. To...

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, New Jersey, to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth -- his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject -- he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the...

Christine Durbin, the oldest daughter of Sen. Dick Durbin and his wife, Loretta, died Saturday from complications to a congenital heart condition, the senator's Washington office announced. Mrs. Durbin was one of three children in the Illinois senior senator's family and worked for 16 years in the Department of Agriculture's emerging markets division in Washington. In addition to her parents, a brother and a sister, she is survived by her husband, Marty Johnson, and a son, Alex. "Chris Durbin, 40, fought a heroic, lifelong battle with heart disease and our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Durbin family," the...

...John McCain’s love of country and passion for public service are indisputable. He can never be thanked enough for the suffering and sacrifice he endured on behalf of his fellow soldiers during his honorable and heroic military service. In a different time and under different circumstances, he likely would have been our choice for president. But 2008 is not his time. There is no perfect presidential candidate. If fully funded, the policy proposals put forward by both candidates, with their unaffordable promises, would exacerbate the country’s already-outrageous budget deficits. Obama’s position on free trade is troubling, but what he’s saying...

Center seeks to purchase sonogram By Olivia Cobiskey ocobiskey@svnmail.com 800-798-4085, ext. 535 DIXON - Connie Ambrecht slid the transducer across Carlotta Wood's round belly, and an image slowly started to appear on the monitor - a head. Then an arm. Then a leg. "She moved," said Wood, 23, of Albany. Ambrecht watched the image of the fetus appear and disappear on the monitor before announcing to the crowd in the other room that the unborn child was 15 weeks along. The demonstration was part of the Hope Life Center's annual banquet Thursday at the Brandywine. The center hopes to raise...

Lawyer: Clinic fires doc with Rezko tie Report: Paul Ray invested charity cash with felon By Sam Smith ssmith@svnmail.com 800-798-4085, ext. 525 STERLING - Almost as quickly as the Sterling-Rock Falls Clinic snatched up Cook County Hospitals' top urologist, the local health care provider sent him packing, according to his attorney. Dr. Paul S. Ray, 63, Stroger Hospital's former chief of urology, had millions in failed business deals with Antoin "Tony" Rezko and was linked - at least through the convicted power broker - to one of the deepest pay-to-play scandals in Illinois history, according to a July 24 Chicago...

Sunday, August 24, 2008 OBAMA-BIDEN: FIRST TIME IN 68 YEARS A TICKET WITH NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE Posted by: Michael Medved at 2:18 AM THE OBAMA-BIDEN TICKET IS THE FIRST TICKET OF EITHER MAJOR PARTY IN SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS IN WHICH NEITHER THE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT EVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY! At a time of war, the Democrats give us something the nation hasn't seen in more than two generations: a ticket where neither of the the running mates ever wore a uniform of any kind. Shouldn't Republicans make a big deal of this? Consider the history-- 2004 -- GOP -- Bush...

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago will receive Brite Divinity School's Black Church Leader Award during the weekend activities. Black Church events centered in Metroplex weekend of March 28 Fort Worth, TX 3/13/2008 Black church scholars, advocates, preachers, churchgoers and students are expected to convene in the Metroplex March 28-29 for a series of events honoring the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the 40th anniversary of his death approaches. The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright (recently retired from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where he was pastor to presidential hopeful Barack Obama and t.v. personality Oprah...

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Man cited for porn on wheels By DEANNA BOYD dboyd@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH -- This X-rated movie was moving, Fort Worth police say. Literally. Monday morning, a 24-year-old Irving man was cited after a Fort Worth police officer spotted porn playing inside the man’s car. The officer was conducting extra patrol at a club at in the 100 block of S. Main Street, south of downtown, when he saw the car drive by, then park near the club, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, police spokesman. According to a police report, a 10-inch screen pointed toward the rear of the vehicle showed “multiple...

Despite no evidence of legal wrongdoing, the Rev. Jesse Jackson wants a Lake Barrington gun plant shut down. Jackson, founder and CEO of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, will at noon today lead a protest in front of D.S. Arms, a gun manufacturer that's been registered in Lake Barrington since 1998. More than 30 protests to ban assault weapons are planned today around the country. Stopping gun manufacturing would halt illegal distribution of firearms, which feeds into the illegal drug trade, Jackson argues. "This is not about Barrington; it's about gun death, and gun manufacturing," Jackson said. Jackson wants residents to...

Resident says he shot man during break-in By BILL MILLER Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH -- A man was in surgery Tuesday after he was blasted with a shotgun during what the shooter described as a break-in at an east-side residence, police said. The shooting occurred at 5:55 a.m. in the 4600 block of East Berry Street, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, a Fort Worth police spokesman. The alleged burglar was reportedly in serious condition at John Peter Smith Hospital, Sullivan said. A resident told police that he was in the process of moving out of the home, Sullivan said. He...

Chicago Tribune Web site shows 28% of Alaske reporting -- Bush up 65 - 38 -- that makes it 269 for BUSH and the win regardless of result of NV, NM, HI... God Bless America !!!

The gambling web site: www.wsex.com (that's right!) Has Bush favored to win the White House, -150 to Kerry +125 ( Bet Bush, costs 150 to win 100 - Bet Kerry 100 bet wins 125) They have Kerry favored to win Ohio - 140 to + 125. They have Bush to win Florida -180 to +150 for Kerry. Now, I'm not a gambler, but I do kind of like the overall idea of Bush winning it all by pretty good odds.

Kerry being interviewes by Chris Matthews...attacking Bush for allowing the looting of the ammo dump....of course he forgot to mention that it was looted before our troops got there !!! Then he says that Bush didn't listen to the Army Chief of Staff and fired him - another flat out lie....but of course, Matthews didn't challange him on the voracity of this. Matthews last question was: do you feel you can take this job right now....Kerry says "YES" -- Matthews smiles says in a hush something that sounds like "so do we" then shakes his hand and ends the interview...

The election of 2004 is much more than the election of the next President of the United States. It is the message we, the American People, are sending the world. It reflects the will, heart, and determination of our collective souls. The result will give an unequivocal signal to those who wish us harm, and to those who stand passively on the sideline of this war on terror. It will show the cloth of which we are made! A close, contested, fractious result will embolden our enemies, weaken the support of the already weak, and give pause to those who...

Fox news' panel panned Bush's performance.....MSNBC praised his job tonight.....something is getting very curious, Alice !!