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		<title>Illinois pastor swims English Channel to raise money to build school in Angola</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — Twenty-one miles and nearly 14 hours later, a northern Illinois pastor has fulfilled his goal of swimming the English Channel to raise money for a school in Africa.

It took the Rev. Mike Solberg 13 hours and 31 minutes to swim from Samphire Hoe, England, to Wissant, France, on Saturday.
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		<title>Expecting justice: Downtrodden Ill. community grapples with racially charged fatal shooting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — The anger spread almost as quickly as the news: an unarmed black man was fatally shot by two white police officers inside a northern Illinois church-run day care filled with children.

Competing stories about how 23-year-old Mark Anthony Barmore died last month have reopened racial wounds in the struggling city of Rockford, sparking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A march to support Ill. officers follows rallies demanding justice in racially charged killing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — The fatal shooting of a black man inside a church-run day care has reopened racial wounds in one northern Illinois city.

Two white police officers shot Mark Anthony Barmore on Aug. 24 in a day care filled with children in Rockford. Police say he was wanted for questioning in a domestic dispute. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal investigators at site of deadly Illinois derailment say high water may have had a role</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — There was high water along the northern Illinois rail line where a freight train derailed, setting off a fiery explosion and killing one person, federal authorities said Sunday.

It&#8217;s unclear what the exact water levels were during Friday&#8217;s crash and what role if any water played in the accident, said Robert Sumwalt of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ill. train derailment explosion kills woman running for safety, hundreds evacuated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — Railroad tank cars holding thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol derailed and exploded in flames, killing a 41-year-old woman as she tried to run to safety from a car stopped at a crossing.

Three other people from the same car escaped with severe burns. Hundreds of people were evacuated from homes near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiery freight train derailment kills 1 northwest of Chicago, residents evacuated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — Railroad tank cars holding thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol derailed and exploded in flames, killing a woman as she tried to run to safety from a car stopped at a crossing.

Three other people from the same car escaped with severe burns. Hundreds of people were evacuated from homes near the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 dead after fiery freight train derailment northwest of Chicago, area residents evacuated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — A freight train hauling ethanol derailed and its tankers exploded, killing one person and triggering a fire that continued to burn early Saturday.

Officials evacuated the area on the edge of Rockford, about 80 miles northwest of Chicago, Friday night amid concerns about air pollution and the chance that more of the train&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 female dead from fiery train derailment northwest of Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — Authorities say one person is dead after a fiery freight train derailment northwest of Chicago.

Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia says the fatality was that of a female who had been in a car that was stopped at a railroad crossing when the derailment occurred Friday night in Rockford, about 80 miles from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freight train derails northwest of Chicago, area residents evacuated</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. — A Canadian National freight train derailed, triggering an explosion Friday night that left at least two people critically injured and prompted officials to evacuate the area northwest of Chicago amid concerns more of the train&#8217;s cars might catch fire.

Rockford Fire Chief Derek Bergsten said the injured people were in a vehicle that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan teacher spending 65 hours in tree to reward students&#8217; fundraising efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Mich. — David Buth is rewarding the tree-mendous fundraising efforts of his Michigan middle school students by spending 65 hours in a perch 40 feet above ground.

It&#8217;s all part of a deal the part-time science teacher at Rockford Christian School made with the students, who earned and collected thousands of dollars for a trip [...]]]></description>
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