Palatine Crime
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Man charged with entering home, raping 4-year-oldApr 10, 2014 1:01 am - A suburban man is charged with raping a 4-year-old girl in a Calumet Park home while others were inside and smoking a cigarette afterward. Cook County state's attorney's...
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Elgin panel delays decision on downtown barApr 09, 2014 1:01 am - Elgin commission continues hearing against bar accused of liquor code violations
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Amber's friend: 'I remember her being happy'Apr 09, 2014 1:00 am - While police describe Amber Creek as a chronic runaway and troubled young woman, that's not the girl junior high school friend Heather Lowing remembers. Lowing said she ...
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Prosecutor: Attack on Palatine girl was 'savage, brutal'Apr 09, 2014 1:00 am - A suburban man charged in the slaying of teenage girl from Palatine 17 years ago stared down at a courtroom table Wednesday as a Wisconsin prosecutor detailed the brutal...
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Editorial: The rewards of persistence in a cold caseApr 08, 2014 11:00 pm - Seventeen years is a long time to wait for anything. But Tuesday was the day the family of Amber Creek finally received some answers, And now they can perhaps start coun...
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Oklahoma lab played crucial role in breaking caseApr 08, 2014 1:01 am - Police officers, detectives, forensic technicians and other law enforcement officials have spent countless hours over the past 17 years seeking answers to the question o...
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Police investigating sexting at Barrington middle schoolApr 08, 2014 1:01 am - Police and school officials are investigating sexting at a Barrington middle school after inappropriate images of a student were shared among a small circle of other stu...
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DNA from cigarette, thumbprints from bag linked Palatine man to teen's 1997 murderApr 08, 2014 1:00 am - Thumbprints on a plastic trash bag left at the scene of a 1997 murder. An Oklahoma crime lab's project to re-examine cold cases. Cigarettes carelessly discarded at a sub...
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Hidden no more: Heroin in suburbsApr 06, 2014 6:01 am - What the Daily Herald addressed more than a decade ago as a "Hidden Scourge" is hidden no more. In the years since our first series of extensive reports on the effects o...
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Conference on 1997 slaying of Palatine girl postponedApr 06, 2014 1:01 am - A news conference to detail the arrest of an Illinois man suspected in the murder of a 14-year-old Palatine girl who went missing in 1997 has been postponed until Tuesda...