Crime
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Authorities: Naperville woman used her children to steal items from JCPenney storeJun 14, 2024 11:40 am - A Naperville woman has been accused of using her children to help her steal 212 items from the JCPenney store at Yorktown Shopping Center in Lombard.
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 massacre
Jun 14, 2024 9:27 am - The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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Why Glen Ellyn police chief says Jimmy Buffett saved his lifeJun 14, 2024 5:15 am - The late Jimmy Buffett is best remembered for tropical rock hits like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” but Glen Ellyn Police Chief Philip Norton fondly recalls the singer for more personal reasons. “Jimmy Buffett saved my life,” Norton told his village board last month.
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Suburban serial killer Mark Smith set to appear before parole boardJun 13, 2024 7:07 pm - A confessed serial killer who murdered two young women and a teenager in the suburbs in 1970 is scheduled to appear before a state parole board early next month.
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Carpentersville woman convicted in toddler’s death to get clemency hearingJun 13, 2024 7:02 pm - Melissa Calusinski, the former day care worker convicted of the 2009 death of Deerfield toddler Benjamin Kingan receives a clemency hearing next month before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board
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Suspect in shooting of 3 deputies in Illinois had multiple firearms, sheriff saysJun 13, 2024 1:49 pm - DIXON — A man accused of shooting and wounding three sheriff's deputies during a standoff at a home in northern Illinois had multiple firearms in his possession, authorit...
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Man charged with having automatic gun in NapervilleJun 12, 2024 7:07 pm - A Glendale Heights man who has a felony record is facing charges he had a gun modified to fire automatically.
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School worker gets 8 years for sexually assaulting studentJun 12, 2024 4:03 pm - A former hall monitor at Tefft Middle School in Streamwood has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a student.
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3 deputies shot while responding to northern Illinois home, suspect also wounded, official says
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Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles