Peoria

Peoria

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  Toddler is youngest to ever get lab-made windpipe

  A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the ... 

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  Town under siege by river seeks buyout

  For 40 years, Shirley Moss has lived in the same home in a tiny southeast Missouri town, but as the sandbags piled up yet again, she didn't hesitate ... 

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  Cautious relief in Midwest as river levels fall

  Slowly retreating floodwaters gave Midwesterners some hope Wednesday that the worst was over, but many worried that the earthen and days-old sandbag ... 

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  More rain expected for swollen Midwest rivers

  More rain on Tuesday was the last thing flood fighters across the Midwest wanted to see, adding more water to swollen rivers now expected to remain ... 

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  David Copperfield's plane makes unscheduled stop

  A private plane carrying magician David Copperfield made an unscheduled stop in Illinois after it made a "frightening" sound en route from Las Vegas ... 

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  Do gays need a church of their own anymore?

  On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister's robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different ...