Conn. freight derailment disrupts Amtrak service

06/25/11 Amtrak service on the Northeast Corridor is experiencing delays because of a freight train derailment in Connecticut. Amtrak says a freight train derailed overnight Saturday on the Metro-North Railroad tracks near Bridgeport. Four tracks are blocked.

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IDOT contemplates how best to spend $40 million after closing Joliet Road

06/28/11 Reaction was mixed from La Grange area residents at a meeting June 27 on proposed road improvements since the closure of Joliet Road bisecting a McCook quarry shifted traffic more than a decade ago. Joliet Road between East Avenue and 55th Street was closed in 1998 after major cracks in the pavement were discovered over a fault line in a narrow ridge separating the north and south quarries mined ...

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Seven Arrested In East Tulsa Meth Lab Bust

07/11/11 Tulsa Police served a search warrant at two houses in the 2500 block of South 135 th East Avenue shortly after 6 a.m. and found a large meth making operation and several stolen cars.  Tulsa Police

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