Crime
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Woman who fled business fraud sentencing seeks early release
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio woman who fled the United States for Mexico ahead of her sentencing in one of the biggest corporate fraud cases in decades is asking for ea...
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Supreme Court wrestles with non-unanimous juries case
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled with whether to require new trials for potentially thousands of prisoners who were convicted by non-unanimous ...
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Judges affirm firings of 2 cops in Laquan McDonald shooting
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Judges have upheld the firings of two Chicago police officers who lost their jobs after they were accused of helping cover up the 2014 fatal shooting of B...
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Hungarian politician resigns party after Belgium party bust
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - A former European Parliament lawmaker from Hungary resigned from his country's ruling party Wednesday after being swept up in a scandal involvin...
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Six people stabbed in brawl at Carol Stream apartment complexDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Six people were stabbed during a late-night melee inside a Carol Stream apartment Tuesday, police said. Police were dispatched about 11 p.m. to the apartment in the Well...
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Carpentersville man faces guns, explosives chargesDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - A Carpentersville man has been charged with several weapons and explosives-related crimes, authorities said. Nicholas High, 22, of the 4300 block of Northgate Drive, is ...
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Des Plaines man accused of sending private sexual imagesDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - A Des Plaines man who authorities say sent out intimate, unclothed photos of a woman to two other people has been charged with nonconsensual dissemination of private sex...
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Elgin man receives probation for 2019 attack on womanDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - An Elgin man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months of probation for attacking a woman in Elgin last year. Damian A. Failla, who is homeless, faced up to 10 years in priso...
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Des Plaines man charged with exposing self to Fremd studentDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - A 33-year-old Des Plaines man was arrested by Palatine police Tuesday after being identified as the suspect in an indecent exposure case at Fremd High School earlier in ...
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ComEd defendants plead not guilty in bribery caseDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Four former ComEd officials pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they engaged in a yearslong bribery scheme that federal prosecutors allege was aim...