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Ten stories you may have missed this weekend

1. The lighter weight of new technology has made it more difficult find places to dispose of heavy, old TVs that are inundating suburban drop-off sites and dominating collection events.

2. Is there finally a break in the College of DuPage board impasse? It appears that may be the case after three trustees who had been boycotting board meetings since December now say they want to hold a special session Wednesday.

3. Palatine native Bill Dyszel made a living singing opera before he wrote "Microsoft Outlook for Dummies" and 20 other books in the Dummies series. Now he's returning to the suburbs with a critically acclaimed one-man show titled, "The Internet Ate My Brain."

4. Chicago will move forward with a sixth east-west runway at O'Hare after years of uncertainty, the city announced Saturday. But the deal reached with United and American airlines leaves out a runway extension and any mention of a western terminal.

5. A pair of sisters who worked together at the Lake County circuit clerk's office are facing criminal charges after authorities said they used their access to the legal system to alter records in criminal and civil cases in which they or people they know are involved.

6. The suburban equestrian community is taking measures to protect horses from the deadly equine herpes virus that a state agency says has affected at least eight horses at Bartlett's Sunset Hill Farm. Five horses have died or been euthanized at the farm because of the illness.

7. A Mount Prospect police sergeant on administrative leave since his arrest after a fight at his home last summer is getting a do-over, after a McHenry County judge allowed him to back out of his guilty plea to a resisting a peace officer charge, court records show.

8. Dance squads from Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville and Geneva High School claimed state championships Saturday at the IHSA Competitive Dance finals in Bloomington. It was a three-peat for the Geneva team, which became the first in state history to take home a crown three consecutive years.

9. Twenty-six competitive cheerleading squads from the Northwest and West suburbs are advancing to the state finals in various categories after competing at one of five sectional sites on Saturday.

10. Thousands descended on the Morton Arboretum in Lisle Saturday and Sunday for the annual Husky Heroes rescue awareness and adoption event and sled dog demonstration.

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