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• Officials investigating Illinois reactor shutdown

  -- Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor in northern Illinois, but believe they may have traced the cause to a piece of equipment at a switchyard.After the shutdown Monday morning at Exelon Nuclear's Byron   Read more »

• Selena Gomez gets restraining order

  Gomez a three-year restraining order against a man accused of threatening to kill the singer-actress and of traveling from Illinois to try to meet her.Superior Court Judge William D. Stewart granted the order, which requires Thomas Brodnicki to stay away from   Read more »

• Man admits trying to open jet door mid-flight

  -- An Illinois man could face up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to open a passenger jet door mid-flight.Reynel Alcaide of Burbank, Ill., pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in St. Louis to interference with flight crew members and   Read more »

• Cuban officials' bar in Washington toasts 'Papa'

  their offices. The bar is named after Ernest Hemingway , the iconic American writer who had an affinity for Cuba.Born in 1899 in Illinois , Hemingway traveled widely and lived in Canada , Paris and Florida's Key West before buying a home in 1940 in Cuba with   Read more »

• Crowd at hearing pans Nassau's LI Bus plan

  in Mineola with remarks about his plan to hand over the county's bus system, which has been run by the MTA for 38 years, to Illinois -based transit provider Veolia Transportation.Asked by the county legislature's presiding officer, Peter Schmitt (R- Massapequa   Read more »

Around the web

• Health officials backtrack, say nursing home did notify them about death

  Illinois Department of Public Health made a mistake when it said Wednesday that an Oak Park nursing home failed to notify the state about an altercation between two residents that left an Alzheimer’s patient dead, an official said today. Anibal Calderon, 80, 55 m ago from Chicago Tribune Read more »

• Illinois Appeals Court Ruling Will Hopefully Hasten Exoneration

  decision from an Illinois appeals court has made it difficult for Lake County prosecutors to retry Bennie Starks for a 1986 rape for which DNA testing has definitively excluded him. The court upheld the trial court ruling that prosecutors are forbidden from 57 m ago from Innocence Project Blog Read more »

• Softball Heads to the Georgia State Panther Invitational

  10 a.m. Chattanooga vs. IUPUI 12:15 p.m. Chattanooga at Georgia State 2:30 p.m. IUPUI vs. Eastern Illinois 4:45 p.m. Eastern Illinois at Georgia State Sunday 10 a.m. Eastern Illinois vs. Chattanooga 12:15 p.m. IUPUI at Georgia State 2:30 p.m. No. 4 vs. No. 6:07 PM from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Official Athletic Site Read more »

• Illinois championships blog

  Althoff junior Michael Harris and Roxana senior Tyler Floyd are the only locals to advance from Thursday's preliminaries to Friday's quarterfinals in the Class 1A individual tournament at Assembly Hall. Harris, wrestling at 126 pounds, improved to 21-7 whe 5:56 PM from St. Louis Post-Dispatch Read more »

• Chrysler Pulls Loan Application as Financials Improve

  of Chrysler Group LLC. Sergio Marchionne speaks during a press conference at the company's assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois on Feb. 2, 2012. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Chrysler Group LLC withdrew its application for U.S. Energy Department loans 5:54 PM from Bloomberg.com Read more »