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Prosecutors: Carol Stream man set own house on fire, sparking explosionAug 24, 2025 12:45 pm - A judge denied pretrial release Sunday for a Carol Stream man accused of setting his own house on fire Saturday, causing an explosion that severely damaged neighboring homes.
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Woman killed in Elk Grove Village crashAug 24, 2025 11:46 am - An Elk Grove Village woman was killed in a two-car crash Saturday morning, authorities said Sunday.
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Police searching for man after pregnant woman stabbed, left in critical condition
Aug 24, 2025 10:06 am - A search for a suspect is underway in Montgomery after a pregnant woman was stabbed Saturday, police said.
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Firefighters rescue two dogs from Grayslake house fireAug 24, 2025 9:55 am - Firefighters rescued two dogs while putting out at fire at a Grayslake home.
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Frustrated, Trump signals pause in his Ukraine peace effort
Aug 23, 2025 8:05 pm - President Donald Trump is signaling that he would step back for now from efforts to reach a Ukraine peace deal, expressing frustration over rising casualties and the fail...
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Bus carrying junior high football team crashes near Pittsburgh. 21 people are taken to hospitals
Aug 23, 2025 5:09 pm - A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people on board to the hospital, officials said.Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior High students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
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Maxwell denies Epstein kept ‘client list’ and other takeaways from interview
Aug 23, 2025 5:08 pm - The transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview of Ghislaine Maxwell spans more than 300 pages, the audio more than six hours. Upon releasing the materials Friday, Blanche said nothing about his July conversation with the imprisoned accomplice of deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had been removed “except for the names of victims.”
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Swimmer reported missing in Lake Michigan near Highland ParkAug 23, 2025 4:55 pm - Crews searched Lake Michigan near Highland Park for a missing swimmer Saturday.
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Texas Gov. Abbott says he’ll swiftly sign new maps on his desk that will boost GOP in 2026
Aug 23, 2025 4:23 pm - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday promised to quickly sign off on a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map gerrymandered to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress.
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Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion
Aug 23, 2025 4:16 pm - The night before Kilmar Abrego García was set to be released from a Tennessee jail, federal prosecutors urged him to strike a deal: Plead guilty to two counts of human smuggling, serve his sentence, and be deported to Costa Rica, a tropical, Spanish-speaking refuge regarded as the safest country in Central America.When he declined the offer in favor of awaiting trial with his family in Maryland, officials threatened to deport him within days to Uganda, an African nation to which the State Department has discouraged travel because of the ongoing risk of terror attacks, his lawyers wrote in a filing Saturday detailing their account of those exchanges.