Crime
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Carol Stream police, feds investigate child sex exploitation caseJan 06, 2026 7:46 pm - Carol Stream Police on Tuesday assisted agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with an investigation into child sexual exploitation, officials said.
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Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84
Jan 06, 2026 7:32 pm - Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency’s history, reportedly causing the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, died Jan. 5 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. He was 84.
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Authorities: Man yelled slurs, threatened to kill worker at Carol Stream grocery storeJan 06, 2026 6:27 pm - A man has been charged with committing a hate crime, accused of yelling slurs at a worker at a Carol Stream grocery store and threatening to kill her.
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Five years after Jan. 6, officers describe the toll of defending the Capitol
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Antioch man found guilty of ‘rolling coal’ at anti-Trump rally in McHenry
Jan 06, 2026 1:02 pm - An Antioch man has been fined $300 for emitting black smoke called “rolling coal” from his pickup truck at protesters during a rally in McHenry last year.
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South Barrington police announce results of enforcement pushJan 05, 2026 2:18 pm - A holiday safety enforcement campaign in South Barrington resulted in one drunken-driving arrest and 28 tickets for other offenses, police announced Monday.
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Maduro says 'I was captured' as he pleads not guilty on drug trafficking charges
Jan 05, 2026 8:35 am - A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself "the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty on Monday to the federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela.
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Man who broke windows at Vance's Ohio home is detained, the Secret Service says
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A Paris court finds 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron
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Indictment of Maduro alleges major drug-fueled corruptionJan 04, 2026 3:59 pm - NEW YORK (AP) — A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictmen t accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” ...