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Who killed Tim McNamee? Question gripped Fox Valley 30 years agoJun 09, 2017 5:30 am - Second of two parts. It had to be another of lawyer Tim McNamee's pranks, a secretary thought as she arrived before 6:30 a.m. on June 9, 1987, to find her boss lyin...
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Attorney: 'Expert marksman' wasn't trying to shoot his wife because he missedJun 09, 2017 5:30 am - Despite firing as many as five gunshots toward his wife, a St. Charles man charged with attempted murder wants jurors to know he obviously wasn't trying to kill her. Huh...
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North: There will never be another like PiersallJun 09, 2017 5:19 am - The great Jimmy Piersall passed away Saturday at the age of 87, and his story is one of the most polarizing, but amazingly crazy and entertaining ones in baseball histor...
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Congress needs to reassert itself on use of forceJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - The Trump Administration, like its predecessors, has shown an apparent appetite for the use of force overseas. The "mother of all bombs" dropped on Syrian troops, saber-...
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Poor Eric TrumpJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - This week, the president's second-eldest son went on national television and dropped all pretense of what we knew had never happened anyway. Instead of weaving yet anoth...
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Feder: Marissa Bailey joins Erin Kennedy as Channel 2 morning news anchorJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - Marissa Bailey, weekend morning news anchor at WBBM - Channel 2 since 2012, has been promoted to Monday-through-Friday morning co-anchor alongside Erin Kennedy. Bailey r...
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The OS in the Dell: Volo's AtomAMPD strikes key partnershipJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - As Rick Blaine once noted to Capt. Louis Renault, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. AtomAMPD, the Volo-based software company that developed the...
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Waiting for married man to get divorcedJun 08, 2017 11:00 pm - Q. While separated from our spouses, a very good friend supported me and I supported him. We fell in love. Four years later, I'm mostly content and divorced and he's sti...
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'It Comes at Night' filmmaker on how he tapped into 2017's political zeitgeistJun 08, 2017 6:00 am - How filmmaker created political zeitgeist Native Texas filmmaker Trey Edward Schults scored a critical hit with his dark 2016 indie family drama “Krisha.” His seco...
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Lester: Wheaton Cold War bunker to be razed this monthJun 08, 2017 5:12 am - As U.S. relations with Russia are once again front-page news, DuPage County officials tell me they're preparing to demolish a Wheaton Cold War bunker in the coming days....