All Stories from August 9, 2011 (Change date)
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Marine honors Chicago-area fire firefightersAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - BUFFALO GROVE — An American flag flown over a Marine camp in Afghanistan to honor a suburban Chicago fire department has been given to village leaders. Buffalo Grove Fi...
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Daley fights to be dismissed from torture lawsuitAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - CHICAGO — Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is fighting a judge's ruling that he remain as a defendant in a lawsuit over police torture. Daley is being sued by Michael ...
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Elmhurst cops: Thief took 400 vases from graveyardsAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - A Hometown man faces charges he stole more than $100,000 worth of brass vases from graves at several area cemeteries, Elmhurst police said Wednesday. Jeffrey T. Burke, ...
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Route 66 site seeks restoration aidAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - NORMAL — Terri Ryburn's love affair with Route 66 started when she was only 5 and her family traveled from Bloomington to California on the Mother Road. They all piled i...
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New hearings sought in Chicago police torture caseAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - CHICAGO — Fifteen incarcerated men who claim they were sent to prison by confessions that were beaten, burned and tortured out of them by convicted Chicago police Lt. Jo...
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Chicago man sentence in Valentine's Day stabbingAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - A Chicago man will serve a 27-year prison term for stabbing a woman and her daughter with a kitchen knife on Valentine's Day two years ago. In a Tuesday statement, the C...
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Man gets probation for stabbing friend in neckAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - BELLEVILLE — A judge in southwestern Illinois has sentenced a 37-year-old man to 30 months of probation for stabbing a friend in the neck during a night of drinking. Pro...
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Health Dept. director selected for state health councilAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - Director of Population Health Services Mark Pfister was recently selected to be an at-large member of the 15-member Executive Council for the Illinois Public Health Asso...
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Sibling suspects captured in ColoradoAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - DENVER — Two men and a woman — siblings who were being sought for crimes in Florida and Georgia — have been captured in Colorado, the FBI confirmed Wednesday. Twenty-one...
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Basic hygiene tips to prevent staph infections in schoolsAug 09, 2011 11:00 pm - DUPAGE COUNTY—The DuPage County Health Department has suggestions for students, parents and faculty on how to prevent staph infections, including MRSA (Methicillin-resis...