Vernon Hills
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Trial focuses on where to draw line in sportsSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - In the midst of an intensely heated third period, authorities say, David Micek turned a Hoffman Estates floor hockey game into a jury question. Raising his stick above ...
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Buffalo Grove to look at church's music academySep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The Buffalo Grove plan commission will be looking at claims that a church in town is violating zoning codes by offering a music academy. Rob Sherman, who lives near the...
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Police chief might lose 'interim' tagSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Law enforcement limbo continues in Island Lake after the village board recently shot down a plan to cut the pay of interim police chiefs. Mayor Tom Hyde and the board ha...
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Diamond composed of Beethoven's hairSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The next time you think about Ludwig van Beethoven, forget about the piano or his famous lilting Moonlight sonata or even his powerful Symphony No. 9. Think of his shock...
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School leaders balance security, accessibilitySep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Three shootings in six days struck schools in Colorado, Wisconsin and rural Pennsylvania last year. Far more routine and discreet, the pressures of cyber-bullying and o...
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Study finds we lose 2 days a year to commutingSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - What would you do with an extra 46 hours this year? Relax with the family? Extend that vacation? Sleep in? Instead, you spend that much time or more sitting in the car s...
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Jail filled to over-capacity, sheriff saysSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Former California governor Jerry Brown once theorized that "the volume of paperwork expands to fill the available briefcases." The Lake County variation of that theory m...
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Patriots shut out CougarsSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Stevenson was busy scoring goals -- and preventing them. While the offense scored 6 goals, goalkeeper Phillip Maciaszek had 18 saves for the Patriots, who were up 2-0 at...
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CUB says buyers are misleadSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Thousands of area consumers have been slammed with soaring natural gas bills after switching services from traditional utilities to unregulated gas suppliers, Chicago-ba...
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Bystanders save cardiac arrest victim in Grayslake gymSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Three bystanders are credited with saving a man's life while he waited to get into a pick-up basketball game Sunday night at Grayslake Central High School. Grayslake Fir...