Crime Stories from August 3, 2021 (Change date)
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Black women, across generations, heed Biles' Olympic exampleAug 03, 2021 10:05 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Naomi Osaka. Simone Biles. Both are prominent young Black women under the pressure of a global Olympic spotlight that few human beings ever know. Both ha...
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Mother of would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley dies at 95Aug 03, 2021 1:06 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - Jo Ann Hinckley, a constant companion to her son John Hinckley Jr. as the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan was gradually allowed to live ou...
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Cuomo urged to resign after probe finds he harassed 11 womenAug 03, 2021 5:06 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure Tuesday to resign, including from President Joe Biden and other onetime Democratic allies, after an in...
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Missouri governor pardons gun-waving St. Louis lawyer coupleAug 03, 2021 8:06 pm - O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social jus...
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Fears over impunity grow as Haiti probes president's slayingAug 03, 2021 5:06 pm - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Police have detained more than 40 suspects in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse, but many people fear Haiti's crumbling judicial syste...
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Des Plaines repeals rule against wearing opposite-sex clothesAug 03, 2021 7:36 pm - A decades-old ban on wearing clothing designed for the opposite sex was repealed Monday in Des Plaines. It's the third time a municipality in the Northwest suburbs has t...
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Police searching for driver of stolen SUV that struck Gurnee ambulanceAug 04, 2021 9:59 am - Gurnee police are searching for the driver of a stolen SUV who fled Sunday evening after sideswiping a Gurnee ambulance. The Gurnee ambulance was headed west on Grand Av...
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Patient charged with trying to murder nurse at Elgin Mental Health CenterAug 04, 2021 6:16 pm - A man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder for attacking a nurse last month at the Elgin Mental Health Center, authorities said. Travis Turner, 18, is acc...
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Hanover Park police investigate shooting that killed one, injured anotherAug 04, 2021 11:35 pm - One person died and another was injured in a shooting Monday in Hanover Park, authorities said. Hanover Park police responded to a report about a shooting on the 5500 b...
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Two suspects in W. Dundee road rage murder case arrestedAug 04, 2021 6:16 pm - Authorities have arrested two of three suspects charged with fatally beating a Carpentersville man at a West Dundee gas station. Kurt E. Doporcyk, 41, of Algonquin; Ryan...