Taxpayers have been billed nearly $400,000 by the special prosecutor in a perjury investigation involving the St. Louis prosecutor’s office, and nearly half of that amount was used in court fights. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained records showing that a ...

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Raymond Stanford has followed Illinois politics for decades, studying newspapers and watching television news. Even so, he doesn’t recognize the state’s new governor. “I don’t know nothing about Pat Quinn,” said Stanford, 48. “Who is he? All I know is ...

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You all know that we have a new governor in office. His name is Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon. He has said that he wants to reinstate Medicaid and all of its benefits for senior citizens, the disabled people and the ...

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Rod Blagojevich, the 40th governor of Illinois and the subject of federal corruption charges including the attempted sale of President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat, was convicted of abuse of power by state legislators. He is to be removed from office. The Illinois senate voted to convict Blagojevich on one article of impeachment. A two-thirds vote was required. In a speech before the senate at the state capitol in Springfield, Blagojevich said Thursday he never "intended to violate any law" and that his conviction on unproven charges would set a "dangerous precedent."

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