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• ABC 15 TOP STORIES VIDEO
Urbana-- An Urbana man has pleaded guilty for his role in a violent home invasion in St. Joseph last year.
Chad Todd will spend at least 16 years behind bars after breaking into an elderly couples home last spring. This according to the News Gazette.
Todd and three other men invaded the home of Robert and Diane Rigdon.
Robert, who is 71 years old, was beaten over the head several times with a gun while his wife was tied up in a laundry room.
Todd is the third person to be sentenced.
A fourth defendant is expected to to plead guilty next month
Man Sentenced For Brutal 2008 St. Joseph Break In
Chad Todd will spend at least 16 years behind bars after breaking into an elderly couples home last spring. This according to the News Gazette.
Todd and three other men invaded the home of Robert and Diane Rigdon.
Robert, who is 71 years old, was beaten over the head several times with a gun while his wife was tied up in a laundry room.
Todd is the third person to be sentenced.
A fourth defendant is expected to to plead guilty next month
Man Sentenced For Brutal 2008 St. Joseph Break In
• ABC 15 LOCAL NEWS
UIC aging research gets $1.9 million NIH renewal
February 09, 2010 04:09 EST
CHICAGO (AP) -- Aging research at the University of Illinois at Chicago is getting a healthy boost from the National Institutes of Health.
The Midwest Roybal Center at UIC is among nine sites getting renewed funding for studies testing health programs to improve older Americans' lives.
The UIC's grant totals nearly $2 million. Its research includes the Fit and Strong program involving low-cost physical activity to help older adults cope with arthritis.
The program provides an hour of exercise, and a half hour of health education three times weekly for eight weeks. It's been shown to reduce lower-back and joint stiffness and pain.
Besides renewing funding, the NIH has designated several new centers, with grant money totaling more than $23 million over the next five years.
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• BUSINESS NEWS
Dow below 10,000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street begins trading today with the Dow Jones industrials below 10,000 for the first time in three months.
• CONSUMER INFO
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• SCIENCE/TECH NEWS
IN THE NEWS: COLORADO SEEKS TO COLLECT ONLINE SALES TAXES
DENVER (AP) -- It's the latest in a long line of efforts to get people to pay taxes on online sales -- this time, being tried by lawmakers in Colorado.
• GET THIS
STRIP CLUB RAISES MONEY FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- This is a charity effort that, we presume, raised more than just money for a good cause.
