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Company offers caskets, urns, with Cardinals' logo

Thursday, 02 May 2013 16:29 Published in Local News

How big a Cardinals fan are you? Enough to be buried with your team's logo?

That is exactly what one company is offering. Brand Memorials gives fans the chance to be buried in a casket with the birds on the bat. The company says urns are also available.

The price to be buried with your team? Urns start at $600 and caskets at $2,400.

 

The convenience store that sold a winning lottery ticket last month, may be luckier than the jackpot winner.

A QuikTrip on Lindbergh in Florissant sold its second grand prize winning ticket in the last year. The store sold a ticket worth $1.1 million in April of 2012--both times the store got a $5,000 bonus.

The most recent jackpot winner is Kenneth Yates of Florissant, he will take home $2.7 million.

 

Illinois House approves pension-reform plan

Thursday, 02 May 2013 16:17 Published in Local News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois House has approved a comprehensive pension-reform plan for the first time after years of talks.

The House voted 62-51 Thursday to advance the measure sponsored by House Speaker Michael Madigan.

The Chicago Democrat's proposal is designed to close a $97 billion deficit that dogs the state's pension plans. Underfunding for decades has left the accounts short of what they need.

The legislation requires employees to contribute 2 percent more of their earnings to their pensions. They would also have to delay retirement and accept less-generous annual cost-of-living increases.

The state would guarantee it would make its required contribution every year.

The measure now goes to the Senate where President John Cullerton has his own ideas about reform.

 

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