O Hair seizes first PGA Tour title in John Deere Classic (The Star Online)

SILVIS (Illinois): Sean O'Hair seized the first PGA Tour victory of his career on Sunday, surging past overnight leader JL Lewis with a final-round 65 at the John Deere Classic.

GKN Aerospace to pay $22,000 penalty for waste shipment (BizJournals)

GKN Aerospace North America will pay a $22,000 civil penalty for wrongly shipping contaminated waste to a St. Clair County facility not licensed to accept it, said Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
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State police to monitor work zones with cameras (Belleville News-Democrat)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois drivers soon will have another reason to watch their speed as they pass through construction zones - surveillance cameras.
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Forums › Mt Vernon Community Forum › Community Forum › How the Heck... (Mt. Vernon Register-News)

That sounds awfully snarky, Shoshana, which surprises me coming from you. I was born in Southern Illinois and raised here. I don't speak that way, either. However, I do not assume that people are uneducated hillbillies becuase they use words like "y'all" or "youins".
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ILLINOIS STYLE: Author dedicates book to Naperville teen he never met (Belleville News-Democrat)

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Had author Chris Crutcher not made the rounds in Naperville about two years ago in support of "King of the Mild Frontier," his collection of comic memoirs, who knows whether he would have been back in town this year to tell readers of his latest work.
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Jazz Sign Draft Picks Williams And Miles (ABC News 4)

(Sports Network) - The Utah Jazz signed draft picks Deron Williams and C.J. Miles on Monday. Terms of the deals were not released. Williams became the highest draft pick in University of Illinois history when the Jazz traded three first round picks to Portland in order to select him No. 3 overall.
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Lewis cruising in Illinois (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

JL Lewis of the United States has stretched his lead at the USPGA event in Silvis, Illinois, following a 2-under-par 69 in the third round. Lewis is 15-under for the tournament and he holds a three-shot lead over Sweden's Richard Johnson and US pair Hank Kuehne and Craig Bowden.
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Consolidated Plans Public Offering of Stock (RedNova)

Jul. 10--MATTOON -- Consolidated Communications Illinois Holdings has filed documents with the Securities & Exchange Commission indicating the company is ready to proceed with an initial public offering.
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EDITORIAL: Harvesting Votes for CAFTA (RedNova)

Jul. 11--Now that the U.S. Senate has passed the Central America Free Trade Agreement 54-45, the battle shifts to the House where the vote is too close to call because of undecideds such as Illinois Democrat Melissa Bean.
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Chicagoland: Stuart Kirby race report (Motorsport.com)

Joliet, Illinois 7/11/05-Stuart Kirby continued his inaugural season with a 31st finish in the Marathon sponsored #51 Chevy at the USG Sheetrock 400. After starting 32nd and having his share of rookie challenges, Kirby persevered and finally settled down on lap 100. He had a few unscheduled pit stops, which were costly, including a speeding on pit road penalty.
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ISU students collect thousands of books for charity (Belleville News-Democrat)

NORMAL, Ill. - Illinois State University students have collected more than 12,000 books for literacy programs in Africa and southeast Asia, organizers of the book drive said.
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O'Hair claims maiden win and British Open berth (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

American Sean O'Hair, who was pushed, prodded and bullied to become a professional golfer by his father, claimed his maiden U.S. PGA Tour win at the John Deere Classic on Sunday in Silvis, Illinois.
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Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on the overturn of a first-degree murder conviction of Dawn (Mt. Vernon Register-News)

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on the overturn of a first-degree murder conviction of Dawn Workman. The first part appeared in the print edition of the Register-News on Saturday. To purchase that copy, call 242-0113.
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Sports-related injuries in younger children are on the rise, regional providers say: Turning down the intensity is key (Southern Illinoisan)

Doctors are beginning to see overuse sports injuries in children as young as 6. One local sports medicine practitioner has noticed this trend. Ben Houle is an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician at the Orthopaedic Center of Southern Illinois in Mount Vernon.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

It's not often that you do or say something that really makes a difference on a large scale but last week I did something that I think at least helped to change the world to a better place.
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Area casinos post mixed results in June (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)

The five St. Louis area casinos posted mixed results in June, the Missouri Gaming Commission and Illinois Gaming Board reported
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O’Hair seizes 1st PGA Tour title (Gulf Times)

SILVIS, Illinois: Sean O’Hair seized the first PGA Tour victory of his career Sunday, surging past overnight leader JL Lewis with a final-round 65 at the John Deere Classic.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

MARION -- A Marion couple was killed early Monday morning when the car they were in ran off the road and hit a tree in rural Jackson County.
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News (Pantagraph)

CLINTON -- A news-media motion seeking immediate access to a transcript of a closed hearing in the Maurice LaGrone Jr. murder case was denied without explanation Monday by the Illinois Supreme Court.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

Mother Nature has not been all that friendly lately, and local high school sports teams are paying the price. A whole bunch of games have been cancelled over the past couple of weeks. And that's just baseball and softball. Track, tennis and soccer have taken a hit as well.
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Dennis heads for southern Illinois (weather.com via Yahoo! News)

A weakening Dennis will be a depression by later Monday morning as it heads north-northwestward into northern Mississippi. Flooding rains, diminishing amounts of wind damage and isolated tornadoes will continue along and east of Dennis' inland track.
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