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10 stories you may have missed

1. The mother of a Fremd student left $50,000 in her will to an anti-bullying scholarship started by members of the Class of 1975 who regret how they treated the boy.

2. Geneva Reed-Veal told hundreds of mourners Saturday she was "crying, hollering and mad" when she learned her daughter had died in a prison cell in Texas.

3. She's on TV, has a radio show, emcees all kinds of charity events in Naperville. But Dolly McCarthy once needed help from the charities she promotes.

4. The Illinois attorney general's office has issued an opinion that the College of DuPage board violated state law in how it handled an extension of President Robert Breuder's contract.

5. Motorists in Grayslake have a new route to avoid road construction because the village has reopened a stretch of Prairieview Avenue that had long been blocked by a gate.

6. Archaeologists in August will be visiting forest preserves in Cook County to survey the sites for pieces of Illinois history.

7. The Countryside Association for People with Disabilities is planning to sell its 8-acre Palatine facility and is looking for a new location in the same general area.

8. One boy was in stable condition, while another boy and a woman were released for minor injuries after a tubing accident on the Fox River near unincorporated Cary.

9. The death of an 18-month-old child, who apparently drowned in a swimming pool at his Aurora home Friday, remains under investigation, police said Saturday.

10. A $2 million bond was set Saturday for a Bellwood man accused of supplying heroin to an Addison woman who later died of a heroin overdose.

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