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• Mammograms should start at 40, doctors say
• Aurora mayor endorses Quinn re-election
• Quinn: New taxes needed to fix budget
• Two investigators involved in escape are fired
• State urges area towns to toughen alcohol standard
• Oswego, West schools getting less from local taxes
• Navistar hearing continued to January
• Aurora man convicted of sex abuse of child
• 2 guilty in Naperville murder-robbery
• Being a quitter: It’s easier said than done
• New charge against Aurora teen
• Auditor: Dems should pay for health care forum
• Clothing theft tally tops $13,000
• New Plainfield chief intends to stay put
• Briefs: Census jobs available
• State not paying bills: Social services in doubt
• Eola Road interchange opens Saturday
• Agency gets $440K to help with foreclosures

• Warriors hope arrow is pointing up
• Title in sight for Rosary
• Vikings' dominance started with Wicinski on the outside
• Area roundup
• You can bank on Harris
• Area athletes make their college choices official
• Three run to All-State honors
• Foxes surprise with 2nd in 2A

Student tries using marketing to win wheels
DePaul University student Madison Hanna needs wheels. We know this because she says as much in the second video she made to promote her chance to win a brand-new, apple-red 2009 Volkswagen Beetle. "I consider myself a friend of the Earth, I really do," she says in her video appeal, now being shown on YouTube. “"I walk everywhere. But it's come to the point where I need some wheels -- desperately."



• Yorkville fundraiser to aid Kendall food pantry
• Local military personnel mark milestones
• Valley briefs: Pete Perez Award
• Waubonsie parent shows school spirit
• East High has biggest NJROT in U.S.
• School briefs: Play at West High
• Auroran makes mobiles from old CDs
• Local Veterans Day activities
• Recreation briefs: Take Oswegoland quiz

A better turkey meal deal
Cooks can truly be frugal gourmets this Thanksgiving, as consumers enjoy lower food prices, at least for now. The Thanksgiving meal with turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the trimmings will cost an average of $42.91, a decrease of $1.70, or 3.8 percent, from last year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

• Best day to buy a car? Black Friday
• Business calendar: Dinner, awards
• Fiserv closing East-Side office, cutting 290 jobs
• Southwest Trading Co. trades spaces

Getting satire right: Site is a daily show of humor
From Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to Bill Maher's targets in the 2008 comedic documentary "Religulous," those on the right of the spectrum often wind up as subjects of late-night zingers and scorching sendups. They are less often the originators of those sendups -- standouts such as Dennis Miller and his less comedically accomplished conservative compatriot Rush Limbaugh notwithstanding -- especially when it comes to taking conservative comrades to task.

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