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10 stories you may have missed

1. Dozens of suburban residents were on the TWA flight that was hijacked by Shiite Hezbollah militants on June 14, 1985. Thirty years later, they recall the horror and the lessons learned.

2. As the probation supervisor for Kane County's Drug Rehabilitation Court, Randy Reusch has three goals: keep every participant alive, sober and crime free. "I have never met anybody in this program that deserved to die," he said.

3. Some of the Marines who served in Vietnam will gather Tuesday in Des Plaines to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of their combat at the grave of the first Chicago-area person killed in the war.

4. A 5-year-old Glendale Heights girl died Saturday after being struck by a vehicle on a Hoffman Estates street. Police say no citations are expected against the vehicle's driver.

5. A 19-year-old gang member is behind bars charged with shooting a West Chicago man five times, authorities said over the weekend. Family members said the victim was not in a gang and was likely in the wrong place at the wrong time.

6. Elgin police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man found dead early Sunday morning along a city street. Police officers found the unidentified man while conducting a well-being check.

7. An early morning downpour may have delayed the start of Sunday's Gildan Esprit de She Triathlon in downtown Naperville, but it did little to slow the 1,700 athletes who swam, cycled and ran through the city once the race got started.

8. Golden Oaks Dairy Farm near Wauconda was the site Saturday of the county's first Dairy Breakfast, offering urbanites an up-close view of where milk comes from.

9. A former St. Charles School District 303 employee accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student told police he also was investigated in early 2014, according to court records.

10. The Daily Herald received 11 awards from the Illinois Press Association, including for community service for a yearlong campaign to address "Heroin in the Suburbs."

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