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10 stories you may have missed this weekend

1. Jon Dennison isn't over it. His addiction to heroin, which first gripped the 21-year-old when he was 17, hasn't let him go. Dennison is one face among suburban heroin users who find themselves unable to stop once they try the drug, but he's not done fighting his addiction.

2. A Naperville man charged with setting fires and causing other damage Friday that crippled the region's air travel discussed his plans on Facebook, according to authorities.

3. In the wake of Friday's sabotage that brought a grinding halt to air travel in and out of the region, members of Congress and aviation experts are asking whether the Federal Aviation Administration is doing all it can to prevent such meltdowns.

4. You may be single in the suburbs, but you're hardly alone. For the first time in state's history, single adults make up more than half the population of Illinois.

5. Elgin police say alcohol and excessive speeds played a role in a crash Saturday night that killed a 38-year-old man when his motorcycle slammed into the rear of an SUV.

6. Embroiled in a budget dispute with township leaders, Avon Township Assessor Christopher Ditton appears to have simply closed up shop earlier this month and disappeared. "It's a mess," says the township's attorney.

7. A 25-year-old Hanover Park man was found stabbed to death Friday night inside a Westmont apartment. Police say the slaying of Roy Feltson Jr. was not a random act.

8. A Naperville man appeared in court Friday facing charges alleging he fled the scene of a crash in Chicago earlier this month that left his passenger, a 25-year-old Arlington Heights woman, paralyzed from the waist down.

9. The rematch for the 10th District U.S. House seat pitting its current (Rep. Brad Schneider) and former (Bob Dold) occupants, is expected to be one of the tightest and closest watches races in the nation.

10. A man who told Waukegan authorities that he harmed his family is in custody after Chicago police discovered the bodies of a woman and a girl in a home on the city's Northwest side Sunday morning, police said.