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Police beat

Cary

• No one was hurt when a car collided with a Cary Elementary School District 26 bus Thursday morning, firefighters said. The accident occurred around 7:45 a.m. at Elden Drive and Three Oaks Road in Cary. The bus was on its way to drop off the 36 students on board at Cary Junior High. The bus was not damaged, no one was taken to the hospital. And shortly after 8 a.m., the bus was able to take kids to school. "They all went to school a little late, but all safe and sound," Cary Fire Lt. Sue Penkava said.

Elgin

• A 31-year-old woman told police that a man robbed her at knifepoint early Thursday morning at the National Street Metra station and threatened to throw her into the Fox River. According to police reports, the man pulled out a knife, asked for money, took six $1 dollar bills from the woman's pants and grabbed her by the shirt, scratching her chest and ripping her shirt. He was last seen running east on National Street. He is described as a black wearing a blue T-shirt and pants.

• Two men were caught on a surveillance camera Wednesday stealing assorted tools, including wrenches, screw drivers and drills from a truck in the 2500 block of Technology Drive, police said. The pair also made off with two box trolleys and a four-wheel box mover, as well as four truck batteries.

• Someone on Wednesday broke out the front, driver's side window of a 2007 Mitsubishi Galant parked in the 100 block of Highbury Drive. Police said nothing was stolen from the car.

East Dundee

• Amelia Garcia, 17, and her boyfriend Richard Ibarra, 17, both of the 1700 block of Kingston in Carpentersville, were charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery and one misdemeanor count of retail theft, police said. Reports said they attacked two security guards at Walmart, 602 Dundee Ave., East Dundee. Police said the couple had their 8-month-old son with them during the fracas and that the guards stopped the teens when they tried leaving the store with stolen curtains and underwear. Bail was set at $10,000 for the pair and they are due in court Sept. 14 at the Kane County Judicial Center.

Huntley

• Six cabinets, five toilets and a bucket of plumbing supplies were stolen on Monday, Aug. 24, from a house on the 10200 block of Jonomac Avenue, police said.

• A Dell desktop computer and monitor valued at $848 were stolen on Saturday, Aug. 29, from Walmart, police said.

Kane County

• Two electrical boxes owned by Comcast were knocked over and crushed in an apparent hit-and-run crash reported Wednesday at Russell Road and Verona Drive in Plato Township. Damage was estimated at $10,000, police said.

• A 4-foot-by-3-foot garden trailer valued at $180 was reported stolen Wednesday from a yard on the 15N800 block of Meadow Court, Rutland Township, according to police.