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ComEd crews working to restore power after tower falls on transmission line

Daily Herald report
Aug 08, 2025 5:15 pm - A communication tower fell onto a ComEd transmission line in the Carol Stream area Friday morning, causing power outages.
‘Bring Sinmi home’: Naperville man asks for public’s help in locating his wife, who has been missing since July 30

By Alicia Fabbre
Aug 08, 2025 5:15 pm - The husband of a Naperville woman who has been missing for more than a week made a public plea for help on Friday.
Video clip shows traffic stop that led to rebuke of Wauconda trustee

Daily Herald report
Aug 08, 2025 4:29 pm - Wauconda police videos released to the Daily Herald shows the traffic stop officials say led to Trustee Nicole Strauts being relieved of her position as chair of the village board's natural resources committee by Mayor Jeff Sode.
Plans to take Gaza City are met with defiance from war-weary Palestinians and anger by many Israelis

By SAM MEDNICK and WAFAA SHURAFA
Aug 08, 2025 3:52 pm - Israel's decision to take over Gaza City was met with resignation and defiance by Palestinians who have survived two years of war and repeated raids. Many Israelis responded with fear and anger, worried it could be a death sentence for hostages held in Gaza.
‘Time is now’: Bears president tells lawmakers Arlington Heights stadium won’t happen without tax break bill

By Christopher Placek
Aug 08, 2025 3:48 pm - The Bears are meeting weekly with Arlington Heights officials about a potential new stadium, but officials say the project hinges on approval of a long-term property tax break, which so far has been resisted by state lawmakers.
Trump meets with leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for a White House peace summit

By SEUNG MIN KIM
Aug 08, 2025 3:45 pm - President Donald Trump convened a peace summit at the White House on Friday with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan that is meant to help end decades of conflict and reopen key transportation routes while allowing the U.S. to seize on Russia's declining influence in the region.
US has ‘no plans’ to recognize Palestinian state, Vance says before talks with UK foreign secretary

By DANICA KIRKA and MEG KINNARD
Aug 08, 2025 3:37 pm - U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Friday at a stately home south of London, with the two leaders saying the agenda includes global economics and the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Taking questions from reporters before their talks, Vance addressed the U.K. decision to recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, saying he wasn’t sure what such recognition would even mean, “given the lack of a functional government there.”
Germany halts military exports to Israel for use in Gaza amid outcry over Netanyahu plan

By FANNY BRODERSEN and SAM McNEIL
Aug 08, 2025 3:32 pm - Germany won't authorize any exports of military equipment to Israel that could be used in Gaza “until further notice,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday, in a strikingly quick response by one of Israel's strongest international backers to a decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet to take over Gaza City.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem calls Pritzker ‘obstructionist’ on immigration enforcement at Lombard news conference

By Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 08, 2025 3:12 pm - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday in Lombard that Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson would rather protect criminals than help the federal government arrest and deport those who are in the country illegally.
Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97

By DON BABWIN
Aug 08, 2025 2:47 pm - James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.

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