http://www.yourstreet.com/news/illinois-river YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us The Illinois River will be tested weekly for harmful levels of bacteria next summer in response to concerns about its water quality, an official testified Monday. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6739567/water-quality-of-illinois-river-prompts-tests Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:43:08 -0700 Ed Fite was 5 years old when he accidently dropped his cap gun off a bluff and watched it fall into the Illinois River below. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6733739/testimony-details-river-changes Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:26:08 -0700 How is the Illinois River doing as the Oklahoma poultry lawsuit nears? Environmental consultants - and residents - say it is slowly improving. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729744/as-poultry-lawsuit-nears,-river-is-healing Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:49:08 -0700 More than four years after he declared that 'chicken is the problem,' Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's federal lawsuit seeking to clean up the Illinois River watershed is heading for a trial ... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6726115/poultry-litter-trial-on-way Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:34:08 -0700 SCRAPER — David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn’t have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years. Overbey, a 67-year-old retired laborer who spends his days fishing the river in the foothills of the Ozarks... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729776/some-say-oklahoma-s-poultry-lawsuit-has-led-to-cleaner-river Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:40:08 -0700 People along the Illinois River riverfront have doing double takes this week as replicas of two ships in the 1492 fleet of Christopher Columbus sailed past barges and motorboats.The ships docked Aug. 27 at Logsdon Tug Service in Beardstown and http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6680432/columbus-ship-replicas-explore-new-waters Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:02:02 -0700 Now that the state of Oklahoma has won its request for a jury trial in the Illinois River watershed pollution case, poultry companies want to know whether potential jurors eat organic food, like lawyers ... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6631945/poultry-firms-prepare-list-of-questions-for-jury-pool Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:24:08 -0700 TULSA, Okla. — The state of Oklahoma is entitled to a jury trial for part of its civil lawsuit accusing the Arkansas poultry industry of polluting the Illinois River watershed with bird waste, a federal judge has ruled. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6631901/judge-grants-jury-trial-in-poultry-lawsuit Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:16:08 -0700 TULSA, Okla. — The state of Oklahoma is entitled to a jury trial for part of its civil lawsuit accusing the Arkansas poultry industry of polluting the Illinois River watershed with bird waste, a federal judge has ruled. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6627852/judge-poultry-lawsuit-to-get-jury-trial Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:26:08 -0700 ROGERS — More than 20 square miles of land along the Illinois River and its tributaries will be planted with trees, native grasses and other plants under a project launched Tuesday. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6610251/state,-federal-government-to-lease-land-to-protect-river Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:47:08 -0700 Two Beardstown men have been arrested in burglaries at two city parks and the theft of a compact tractor that was dumped into the Illinois River. Beardstown Police arrested Willis M. Bigham, 20, of 601 W. Fourth St., Apt. 10, and a 17-year-old male http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6590559/2-arrested-after-b-town-theft,-burglaries Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:46:54 -0700 Poultry companies on Friday lost a bid to have part of the state's Illinois River watershed pollution lawsuit dismissed by claiming that poultry litter wasn't solid waste. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6554077/judge-rules-poultry-litter-fertilizer-is-solid-waste Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:37:08 -0700 TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An economist who claims the poultry industry knew for years about the environmental harm chicken waste was causing in an Oklahoma watershed will be allowed to testify in a federal pollution trial, a judge ruled Thursday. The ruling by U.S.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6542900/judge-rules-poultry-industry-critic-can-testify Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:31:08 -0700 TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — It's hard to picture the crystal-clear Illinois River that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson remembers from his youth, how he could look to the bottom and spot a dime, no matter how deep the water.That was almost 45 years ago, and... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6540207/okla-attorney-general-takes-on-poultry-industry Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:13:08 -0700 TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — It’s hard to picture the crystal-clear Illinois River that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson remembers from his youth, how he could look to the bottom and spot a dime, no matter how deep the water. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6538289/okla-attorney-general-takes-on-poultry-industry Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:49:08 -0700 ST. LOUIS (AP) — A presidentially appointed panel studying Mississippi River issues is getting a close-up look at the Illinois River, visiting central Illinois for the first time in nearly a decade. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6531301/presidential-panel-touring-inland-rivers Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:15:08 -0700 TULSA, Okla. — Twelve poultry companies being sued by Oklahoma for polluting the Illinois River watershed are asking a judge to throw out a statement made by a member of their legal team on how poultry litter is used. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6496643/poultry-makers-ask-judge-to-exclude-lawyer-comment Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:23:08 -0700 FAYETTEVILLE — Two expert witnesses willing to say phosphorous in the Illinois River came from poultry litter and not other sources will not be allowed to testify at trial, a federal judge ruled. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6461470/experts-in-poultry-suit-thrown-out Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:20:08 -0700 Ed Fite stood on a small, limestone cliff along the Illinois River — on land that's been in his family for a century — and looked into the slightly greenish water flowing below. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6424625/worries-now-flow-freely-through-illinois-river Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:56:08 -0700 TULSA — Oklahoma can’t pursue monetary damages in its environmental lawsuit against a dozen Arkansas poultry companies because it didn’t name the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a major blow to the state. Oklahoma... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6398633/officials-hit-roadblock-in-oklahoma-poultry-suit Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:36:08 -0700