All Stories from April 8, 2014 (Change date)
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DNA from cigarette, thumbprints from bag linked Palatine man to teen's 1997 murderApr 09, 2014 12:30 pm - Thumbprints on a plastic trash bag left at the scene of a 1997 murder. An Oklahoma crime lab's project to re-examine cold cases. Cigarettes carelessly discarded at a sub...
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Batavia routs BartlettApr 09, 2014 9:58 pm - The bottom of the fourth inning was like a scene out of a horror novel for the Bartlett baseball team. Batavia was technically the home team in the schools' Upstate Eigh...
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'Pings' relocated in hunt for jetApr 09, 2014 8:33 am - PERTH, Australia — A ship searching for the missing Malaysian jet has detected two more signals that are consistent with a plane's black boxes, the Australian official i...
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Rosemont hotel complex to reopen as 2 separate hotelsApr 09, 2014 2:50 pm - The new owners of a shuttered hotel near the Allstate Arena in Rosemont hope to renovate and reopen it by this summer. But when the venue does reopen, it will actually b...
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Former airport manager receives year's salaryApr 10, 2014 8:11 am - Dennis Rouleau, former manager of Chicago Executive Airport and an employee there for almost a quarter century, will receive a year's salary through his settlement agree...
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Naperville testing LED bulbs for streetlight upgradesApr 09, 2014 1:30 pm - Call it a light bulb fashion show. Naperville is soon to embark on a five-year, $6.3 million project to install new LED lights in more than 11,000 streetlights. But firs...
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Hooded Bandit strikes again in BensenvilleApr 09, 2014 1:30 pm - The Hooded Bandit — suspected of robbing five banks in Rolling Meadows, Wood Dale and Bensenville in the past year — has struck again in Bensenville, authorities said. A...
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New Huntley library director starts April 21Apr 08, 2014 5:04 pm - The Huntley Area Public Library District has a new director. The library board recently hired Frank Novak, formerly director of Rockford Public Library, to take the helm...
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Pipe found in Algonquin part of geocaching gameApr 08, 2014 7:47 pm - A “suspicious” green pipe in Algonquin that prompted an investigation from the Kane County Bomb Squad and closed part of a major road Tuesday turned out to be an innocuo...
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Lake forest preserve directive is to sell most Lake Marie pier rightsApr 08, 2014 5:34 pm - Lake County Forest Preserve District officials have informally decided to sell 41 of 45 pier rights acquired with the purchase of the former campground near Antioch, as ...