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• Couple plead not guilty in boy’s death May 24, 2013 12:00 AM
  A West suburban couple accused in the death of their 1-year-old son have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges. Bryeon Hunter's body was recovered from the Des Plaines River last week.
  

   

• Baby wallaroo goes missing in northern Illinois May 22, 2013 12:00 AM
  The pet wallaroo is named Willow and she's 14 months old. She's about 2 feet tall, gray and weighs between 15 and 20 pounds.
  

   

• 2 men charged in shooting death of Markham man May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
  Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a Markham man whose body was found last month near Calumet Park.
  

   

• College student killed while home on break May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  A former West suburban high school track star, home after his first year in college, has died after being shot while sitting in the back seat of an automobile. Deshawn McCarty ran track and played football and basketball at Proviso East High School in Maywood. He was attending North Dakota State University on scholarship.
  

   

• Selling embezzler’s assets wasn’t smooth, marshals say May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  The U.S. Marshals Service finished selling the former Dixon comptroller’s belongings this month to raise restitution. Rita Crundwell is serving a federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to stealing more than $53 million from the city over two decades.
  

   

• Northwestern sees record number of applicants May 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Officials at Northwestern University in Evanston say they received a record number of applicants for fall admission, with nearly 33,000 students applying. The surge in applicants meant that only about 14 percent of the students were admitted.
  

   

• 5 abuse lawsuits filed against Joliet diocese May 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Chicago law firm filed the lawsuits in Will County on behalf of victims who were between the ages of 8 and 16 at the time of the sex abuse in the 1970s and 1980s. The victims were at churches, a school and a seminary in Bolingbrook, Joliet and Monee.
  

   

• Report card: Great Lakes still have big problems May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday.
  

   

• Boy’s body pulled from Des Plaines River May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the boy was found in the water near McCormick Woods in North Riverside. The sheriff's office said the Cook County medical examiner plans a Wednesday autopsy to identify the boy and determine a cause of death. Sheriff's officials say a kayaker spotted the body Tuesday afternoon.
  

   

• Sentence handed down in 1st televised trial in Illinois May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Kankakee man has received a 78-year prison sentence in a case that was the first Illinois trial to feature live, gavel-to-gavel TV coverage.
  

   

• Police officer guilty of rights violations May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  A federal jury has convicted a South suburban police officer of civil rights violations for striking two men with a baton outside a nightclub in 2009.
  

   

• Northwestern giving Napoleon’s brother’s letter to France May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  The university announced Friday it will hand over next week to the Consul General of France in Chicago the letter dated April 27, 1792, and signed by Joseph Bonaparte.
  

   
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  NIU holds farewell event for departing president May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  The character of Northern Illinois University President John Peters was praised Monday during a farewell ceremony for the man who led the school when a gunman opened fire on campus, killing five. Hundreds of people, including students, alumni and community leaders, attended the event.
  

   

• `Very slightly radioactive water' enters Lake Michigan May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Seventy-nine gallons of "very slightly radioactive water" from a leaky tank at the troubled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant spilled into Lake Michigan, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman said Monday. There is no risk to human health because the radioactive material was further diluted when it entered a storage basin before flowing into the lake, NRC spokeswoman Viktoria Mitlyng told The Associated Press. She said there is "absolutely" no risk to human health.
  

   
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  Ex-Dixon comptroller moved to Chicago jail May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Bureau of Prisons confirmed Monday that Rita Crundwell is at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Crundwell admitted she stashed public money in a secret bank account for decades.
  

   

• Convicted ex-water official resigns as police chief May 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Coin flip decides board race in Stickney May 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  Two candidates for Stickney's board of trustees garnered exactly 573 votes in last month's election. So on Wednesday, Cook County Clerk David Orr flipped a quarter to break the tie.
  

   

• Baby’s body found in recycling center cooler May 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  Chicago Ridge Fire Chief Rob Pyznarski says an employee at Resource Management Co. found the baby's body about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. He says the umbilical cord was still attached to the baby.
  

   
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  Former Crestwood official convicted of lying about tainted water Apr 29, 2013 12:00 AM
  A one-time South suburban official was convicted Monday of lying for decades about drawing water for residents from a well tainted by a cancer-causing chemical. Defendant Theresa Neubauer, 55, struggled to keep her composure 15 minutes later as she spoke to reporters at the federal courthouse in Chicago. "I'm devastated," she said, her voice breaking.
  

   

• 4 men charged in triple slaying in Harvey Apr 29, 2013 12:00 AM
  Prosecutors on Monday announced that four men have been charged in the slayings of a woman and two children more than two years ago in South suburban Harvey.