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Man gets 10 years for drug-induced homicideDec 08, 2025 12:10 pm - A Skokie man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for supplying the fentanyl that killed a West Chicago-area woman.
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‘This should have been avoided’: Late warnings raise red flags in fatal train crashDec 07, 2025 8:45 pm - State says gates and lights are “operating as designed” in Elgin after a man was killed at a crossing. Questions abound over a NTSB report indicating there wasn’t enough notice of an oncoming locomotive.
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‘They always provide’: JOURNEYS offers a lifeline and a path out of homelessnessDec 07, 2025 8:45 pm - Palatine-based JOURNEYS The Road Home provides shelter and other assistance to hundreds of suburban residents facing homelessness. It’s one of five charitable organizations set to receive grants from the Daily Herald/Robert R. McCormick Foundation's Neighbors in Need fundraising campaign.
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‘Travesty’: Elgin mayor blasts federal agents’ actions against protestersDec 07, 2025 5:28 pm - Elgin Mayor David Kaptain sharply criticized federal immigration agents after they used tear gas and pepper spray on protesters who gathered outside a city apartment complex during an hourslong standoff Saturday morning.
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AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of facesDec 07, 2025 4:40 pm - Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a “high risk” watch list in the Canadian city of ...
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‘No place here for me’: U.S. citizens getting caught in immigration crackdown in Chicago, suburbs
Dec 07, 2025 4:36 pm - If you rolled past Bedrosian Park after the final bell rang at Waukegan High School on any given weekday this fall, you were likely to find Diego Rosales, basketball in h...
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Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas will enter ceasefire's second phase soonDec 07, 2025 4:20 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Hamas are “very shortly expected to move into the second phase of the ceasef...
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Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdownDec 07, 2025 4:12 pm - NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and demonstrations against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring mes...
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No sleigh, no problem. Santa hops chopper ride to SchaumburgDec 07, 2025 3:53 pm - With his magical sleigh presumably in the workshop getting some final tweaks for the big night ahead, Santa Claus found another way to drop in Sunday on some eager fans in Schaumburg.
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The Kremlin praises new US security strategy as Russian strikes kill 4 in UkraineDec 07, 2025 3:35 pm - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Sunday welcomed the Trump administration’s new national security strategy in comments by the Kremlin spokesman published by Russia’s Tass n...