Elgin Crime
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over Geneva ambulance crashDec 27, 2015 12:00 am - A Kane County judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man seeking damages for injuries sustained in 2011 when he was rear-ended by a Geneva ambulance responding to a ca...
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'Cold and calculated' attorney accused of killing wife in 1973 held on $4 million bailDec 24, 2015 2:02 pm - Bail has been set at $4 million for a former Northwest suburban attorney charged with the 1973 murder of his wife. Donnie Rudd, 73, of Sugar Land, Texas, attended Thursd...
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Cook County sheriff says too many mentally ill in jailDec 23, 2015 12:00 am - Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, as part of his campaign to reduce what he calls unjust incarceration of the poor and mentally ill, said in a news release Wednesday that pr...
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Elgin Mental Health Center escapee gets 6 yearsDec 23, 2015 12:00 am - A Chicago man has been sentenced to six years in prison for escaping from an Elgin Mental Health Center van taking him to a court proceeding in Lake County in July 2014,...
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Rudd's family history complex before wife's deathDec 21, 2015 12:00 am - Murder suspect Donnie Rudd's weekslong marriage to 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta in the summer of 1973 was neither the beginning nor the end of the disbarred attorney's comp...
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How police concluded 42-year-old Barrington Twp. case was murderDec 21, 2015 12:00 am - Less than a month after her August 1973 wedding to patent attorney Donnie Rudd, 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta Rudd was dead, found lying across her husband's lap in their ca...
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Fox Valley police reportsDec 21, 2015 12:00 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Northwest suburban police blotterDec 19, 2015 12:00 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Man charged with West Dundee arson unfit for trialDec 18, 2015 12:00 am - A 27-year-old Elgin man accused of an October arson in West Dundee Township has been declared unfit to stand trial, records show. Phokam Prisayana, of the 400 block of C...
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Politicians' falls from grace highlight the year in courts and crimeDec 17, 2015 10:00 pm - For several prominent suburban leaders, 2015 was marked by spectacular falls from grace. But none received more attention than the arrest of retired U.S. House Speaker D...