Crime
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Batavia police: Person robbed during motorcycle saleApr 27, 2026 3:07 pm - Batavia police are reporting that a person was robbed of a motorcycle they were selling Sunday night.
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Man charged with attempted assassination of Trump in White House correspondents' dinner shooting
Apr 27, 2026 1:13 pm - The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives was charged Monday with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump and will remain at least temporarily behind bars as the case moves forward.
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Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museumApr 26, 2026 4:56 pm - BOSTON (AP) — For decades, the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now valued at more than $500 million — has remained unsolved. It remai...
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Sound of gunfire carries eerie echoes of Reagan's shooting outside the same Washington hotelApr 26, 2026 4:43 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Ronald Reagan left the Washington Hilton Hotel and headed for his waiting limousine on a gray March afternoon, he was exposed for mere se...
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Chicago police officer killed in hospital shooting identified, second officer in critical conditionApr 26, 2026 4:30 pm - CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago officer who was fatally shot by a man receiving treatment at a hospital while in police custody has been identified as 38-year-old John Bartholom...
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Suspicious device leads to evacuations, closed streets in downtown St. CharlesApr 26, 2026 11:08 am - The FBI is investigating the discovery of a suspicious device Saturday night in a flower planter in downtown St. Charles.
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Chicago police officer dead, another critically wounded in shooting at Swedish Hospital; suspect in custody
Apr 25, 2026 7:52 pm - A Chicago police officer was killed and another was “fighting for his life” after being wounded in a shooting Saturday morning at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, the city’s top cop said.
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Roommate charged with two counts of murder in death, disappearance of two USF students
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Batavia police investigating man’s death, woman’s serious injury early SaturdayApr 25, 2026 3:47 pm - Batavia police are conducting a death investigation after responding to an early morning call Saturday in which a man was found dead and a woman injured.
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Mundelein man charged with indecent solicitation of a 14-year-old girlApr 25, 2026 10:02 am - A Mundelein man is accused of asking a 14-year-old girl to engage in a sex act in a nearby unincorporated area.