10 stories you may have missed this weekend
1. A former U.S. Marine already on death row for the 2009 slaying of a Navy sailor in Virginia is back in Lake County to face trial in the notorious killing of two girls in Zion.
2. Manchester Federal Prison in rural Kentucky holds convicted drug dealers, bank robbers and carjackers ... and one Glendale Heights resident who knows his way around a computer. Jeremy Hammond, whose nimble fingers have clicked and tapped their way into the nation's computing systems, tells how he became an infamous "hacktavist."
3. A widow in Mount Prospect reached out to an acquaintance she hadn't seen in decades after seeing his name pop up in a Daily Herald column about the 80-year-old bicyclist. The result? Wedded bliss.
4. Longtime congressman Phil Crane of North suburban Wauconda, who was buried Saturday, helped develop strategies for conservative Republicans in Congress and stuck to those principles through a 35-year career. 5. A 23-year-old Geneva man was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a male minor that he knew and videotaping it during a six-month period in 2012.
6. Despite backlash from some residents and disapproval from the village board, a Lombard community group may move forward with plans to open a Christmas haunted house.
7. A man attacked a female jogger Friday night near Valley Lane and Windsor Drive in Arlington Heights, the third such attack in the area in the last 14 months.
8. A former Schaumburg man who fled to his native South Korea to avoid facing the consequences of a 1996 fatal Bartlett accident was sentenced Friday to five years in prison, disappointing the victim's family members.
9. An appellate court ruling will spare the bleachers at Crystal Lake South High School their Dec. 1 appointment with the wrecking ball.
10. Wallenda
Two weeks after he captivated the nation with a dangerous high-wire act over downtown Chicago, professional daredevil Nik Wallenda captivated the audience at Christ Community Church in St. Charles on Sunday talking about his life and his faith. "I don't know how I would make it through everything I do without God in my life," Wallenda said.
David Schwimmer, who played Ross on the TV show "Friends," made a special, surprise appearance at a Mundelein High School theater production of his play "Trust," Saturday night. The play is about a teenager manipulated into a sexual relationship with a man she meets on the Internet. The play has only ever been performed once before.
BONUS: "Friends" star Davis Schwimmer made a special, surprise appearance this weekend at a Mundelein High School theater production of the play he wrote called "Trust."