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1 day ago | pantagraph.com | Eileen Ogintz

Let’s hear it for ambitious kids!A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling. For years, he’d been searching unsuccessfully for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the “boy king,” who died as a teenager. His patron, George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and an avid collector of Egyptian antiquities, told Carter he was cutting off his funding after the season.

3 days ago | pantagraph.com | Drew Zimmerman

BLOOMINGTON — A Chicago man was granted pretrial release in McLean County after police said he was found with a revolver. Jamelle M. Smalling, 34, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, a Class X felony; aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, a Class 2 felony, and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, a Class 3 felony, according to court records.

3 days ago | pantagraph.com | Randy Reinhardt

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3 days ago | pantagraph.com | Drew Zimmerman

BLOOMINGTON — A Peoria man is being detained on sexual assault charges. Daquan M. Martin, 23, is charged with three counts of criminal sexual assault, a Class 1 felony; aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony, and two counts of theft, a Class A misdemeanor. Martin made his first appearance in McLean County court Monday when Judge Amy McFarland heard arguments on whether he should be held in jail before the case goes to trial.

3 days ago | pantagraph.com | Eric Gay

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