Crime
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'It is wholly inadequate': Family disappointed after driver gets 7 years for killing teenJul 21, 2020 11:00 pm - Joseph Kucharski was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for the reckless homicide of Downers Grove North High School student Beth Dunlap, in which he ran her d...
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Ohio House speaker, 4 others arrested in $60M bribery case
Jul 21, 2020 7:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The powerful Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four associates were arrested Tuesday in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a ta...
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NY Republican Chris Jacobs sworn in as newest House member
Jul 21, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Chris Jacobs of upstate New York became the newest House member on Tuesday, taking the oath of office to fill the unexpired term of a lawmak...
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Federal agents, local streets: A 'red flag' in Oregon
Jul 21, 2020 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Federal officers' actions at protests in Oregon's largest city, hailed by President Donald Trump but done without local consent, are raising the pr...
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Federal presence in Portland gives protests new momentum
Jul 21, 2020 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Mardy Widman has watched protests against racial injustice unfold in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, for more than seven weeks but stayed away be...
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Bulgaria's govt survives no-confidence vote amid protests
Jul 21, 2020 7:00 am - SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Bulgaria's center-right government on Tuesday survived the fifth no-confidence vote called by the Socialist opposition over its alleged failure to...
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US accuses Chinese hackers in targeting of COVID-19 research
Jul 21, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of i...
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West Chicago man charged after woman shot in ankleJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - A West Chicago man has been charged with aggravated battery - discharge of a weapon, after a woman was shot in an ankle as she and another woman were fighting. According...
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Police: Elgin man sold, possessed drugs 4 times in 2019Jul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - A 25-year-old Elgin man faces prison after his recent arrest on charges he sold cocaine and other drugs several times in 2019, according to court records. Jeffrey D. Bro...
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Arson suspected in Naperville fire that displaced 20 peopleJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Twenty people in a Naperville multifamily residential building were displaced as the result of suspected arson on the 700 Block of Inland Circle on Tuesday afternoon. Th...