Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies
By The Associated Press, NPR, and Illinois Public Media
Famed film critic and Urbana native, Roger Ebert has died Thursday at the age of 70. He had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood.
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Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa – in Comics Form
By Carol Hills/The World
Remember the film “Kony 2012?”
The film went viral last year and put Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army in the cross-hairs of millions of outraged citizens.
Well, a year later, Joseph Kony and his remaining believers are still somewhere in Central Africa, literally raping and pillaging as they go.
War correspondent David Axe wants to remind people that Kony is still out there.
Axe has written a graphic novel with illustrator Tim Hamilton, “Army of God: Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa,” to tell the story of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
The novel demonstrates why the show-and-tell nature of comics journalism works as a medium to talk about Joseph Kony and violence he has wrought.
Same-Sex Marriage and the Evolving Language of Love
By Ari Shapiro
As the legality of same-sex marriage is debated, so is terminology.
Illinois Officials Open Pontiac Prison to News Media
By The Associated Press
The warden at the maximum-security prison in Pontiac says there have been no problems or violent incidents with inmates shipped from the now-closed Tamms Correctional Center.
Gov. Quinn Continues to be Asked About Prison System
This is the fourth in a four part series on Illinois prison life
By Robert Wildeboer
UPDATE: Illinois Governor Pat Quinn says he will lay out his prison plans and policies, but it’s going to be a couple of months yet.
Comcast Gun Commercial Ban Hits Indiana Gun Stores
By The Associated Press
A decision by Comcast Corp. to ban commercials touting firearms and ammunition has left some Indiana gun stores searching for new ways to advertise their products.
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The Internet Creates a Gray Market for Firearms
Gun sales facilitated online often skirt gun laws
By Chris Berube
While the debate rages about gun control in America, one issue that hasn't been widely discussed is the so-called "gray market" for firearms online.
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Conflict Transforms Syrian English Teacher Into War Photographer
By Kelly McEvers
Syria's war has thrown ordinary citizens into situations they never could have imagined and changed them in ways they never would have dreamed. It's turned carpenters, engineers and doctors into armed rebels. And in Aleppo, it has turned a young woman teacher into a war photographer.
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Reporters Get Look Inside Southern Illinois Prison
By The Associated Press
Journalists have been allowed to tour a southern Illinois prison that a watchdog group had found to be overcrowded and plagued by squalid conditions.
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Macon County Leads State in STD Rates, Teen Pregnancies
By Jeff Bossert
Macon County now ranks first in Illinois’ 102 counties in terms of teen pregnancies and those with sexually transmitted disease.
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