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  Images: Bartlett High School graduation May 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  Bartlett High School held its commencement ceremony Saturday evening at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates. There were 680 graduating students.
  

   
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  Graduates bid goodbye to U-46, hello to the rest of their livesMay 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  The lesson learned by many students of Elgin Area School District U-46's Class of 2012 was that you never know how you're going to react at your own graduation. Altogether, about 2,700 seniors graduated from U-46's five high schools in staggered ceremonies that took place at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates.
  

   
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  St. Viator students raise $10,000 for Mercy Home May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Students at St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights raised $10,000 in this year's Lenten Campaign, and chose to give it to the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls in Chicago. "Thank you. You change the lives of our children through your generosity," said the Rev. L. Scott Donohue, a 1972 graduate of St. Viator and current CEO of Mercy Home.
  

   
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  Maradona gives UAE football much-needed boost May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Bringing Diego Maradona to coach in Dubai was a calculated risk for the Al Wasl club. People can be jailed for public drinking or even making rude gestures in the United Arab Emirates, making somebody with Maradona's history of drug and alcohol abuse and knack for courting controversy an odd choice for a coach. Halfway through Maradona's two-year deal, the gamble appears to have paid off for Al Wasl.
  

   

• Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan bloodMay 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan — a move denounced this week by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation. The vial being auctioned online was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was treated at George Washington University hospital after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington, the PFCAuctions house said.
  

   

• UK bans leaders who abuse rights from Olympics May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Britain will ban leaders guilty of human rights abuses from traveling to the U.K. for the 2012 London Olympics, a senior British official said this week.
  

   
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  Illinois man describes hours trapped in Iowa cave May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  An Illinois man who was trapped in an Iowa cave for 20 hours said he wasn't initially worried when he got stuck the narrow passage, but he lost track of time and turned to prayer as a dozen rescuers took turns crawling through 300 feet of twists and turns to free him.
  

   
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  Kline Creek Farm event reminds community of the origins of Memorial Day May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Memorial Day has become a vacation holiday for many people. But for those who want to do something more commemorative this holiday, there's Kline Creek Farm. At 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 28, the Forest Preserve District of DuPage's Kline Creek Farm will host the program "Memorial Day Remembered." The program will include a ceremony reminiscent of those held during the 1890s for the holiday.
  

   
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  Vets treated like kings on trip to Washington, D.C. May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Two Batavia men were among the guests on the monthly Honor Flight from Chicago to the National World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. Both are familiar names around Batavia, especially at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post -- 97-year-old George Gebes, and his son-in-law, Dick Kalina.
  

   
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  Iowa man taking neighbor’s tree to his graveMay 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Lake County Marine Unit steps up patrols this weekendMay 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Lake County Marine Units are increasing their patrols over the Memorial Day weekend, and will be looking for intoxicated operators as well as boats without proper safety equipment. "This is the big kickoff weekend, and we are urging everyone to be safe," said Karen Kates, spokeswoman for the Lake County Sheriff.
  

   
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  Revolutionary War soldier memorialized in Lake County May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  One of two known Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Lake County was memorialized Friday at a rededication ceremony at his gravesite in Wadsworth. At the ceremony, which honored patriot Henry Collins, a new granite marker was unveiled.
  

   
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  Schaumburg Boomers a hit with 5,000 fans May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  The return of professional baseball to Schaumburg — after a nearly two-year hiatus — proved to be as successful in the stands as it was on the field Friday night. A crowd of more than 5,000 mostly orange-clad fans cheered the Schaumburg Boomers on to their first home victory, beating the Florence Freedom 5 to 2.
  

   
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  COD, faculty reach tentative contract deal May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Negotiating teams for the College of DuPage and the school's faculty association have reached a tentative contract agreement — just days before a contract imposed by COD's board of trustees was set to take effect. The deal was struck just after midnight Saturday — the result of bargaining sessions on Thursday and Friday that lasted a combined 25 hours, said Faculty Association President Glenn Hansen.
  

   
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  Auction claims it’s selling vial with Reagan blood May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan — a move denounced this week by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation.
  

   
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  Medal of Honor recipient to head Naperville parade May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Allen Lynch would like everyone to enjoy Naperville's Memorial Day Parade and their ensuing barbecues. But in between, he hopes they stop and pay respect to a fallen veteran. Lynch, a Medal of Honor winner and Vietnam veteran from Gurnee will serve as grand marshal of the Naperville parade, stepping off at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 28. The honor, he says, is a stark contrast from the treatment he received after returning home from Vietnam.
  

   
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  Vatican confirms pope’s butler arrested in scandal May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  The "Vatileaks" scandal has seriously embarrassed the Vatican at a time when it is trying to show the world financial community that it has turned a page and shed its reputation as a scandal plagued tax haven. "If you wrote this in fiction you wouldn't believe it," said Carl Anderson, a member of the board of the Vatican bank which contributed to the tumult with its no-confidence vote in its president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. "No editor would let you put it in a novel."
  

   

• Suspects rob Elmhurst bank, flee May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Two men robbed a TCF bank inside an Elmhurst grocery store Saturday and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, authorities said. The robbery happened around 12:30 p.m. inside a Jewel-Osco store at 153 E. Schiller St., just north of York Street.
  

   
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  Astronauts enter world’s 1st private supply ship May 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, the first one inside the docked capsule, said "I spent quite a bit of time poking around in here this morning, just looking at the engineering and the layout, and I'm very pleased."
  

   
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  Dozens of children killed in new Syria attackMay 26, 2012 12:00 AM
  Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria's 14-month-old uprising. The shelling attack on Houla, a group of villages northwest of the central city of Homs, killed more than 90 people, including at least 32 children under the age of 10, the head of the U.N. observer team in Syria said.