Crime
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$2.5M theft scheme: Georgia ex-official begins prison term
Dec 02, 2021 6:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck began a seven-year prison sentence Thursday, convicted earlier this year on 37 counts involving a scheme to...
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Austria's ex-chancellor Kurz says he's leaving politics
Dec 02, 2021 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Austria's former chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, said Thursday that he is quitting politics, two months after stepping down as leader amid corruption allegatio...
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Armed man outside UN arrested after standoff, lockdown
Dec 02, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The United Nations headquarters in New York City was locked down for several hours Thursday after a man was seen pacing outside one of its main gates wit...
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Ex-Epstein staffer testifies teen accusers visited mansion
Dec 02, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A former housekeeper testified Thursday that two women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing them as teens were repeated visitors to his P...
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Puerto Rico mayor pleads guilty in federal corruption case
Dec 02, 2021 6:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A prominent mayor in Puerto Rico accused of awarding 50 contracts worth nearly $10 million to an asphalt company has pleaded guilty to consp...
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'He was hurting and he needed help,' mom of man firing guns and killed by Buffalo Grove police saysDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A man firing two guns was shot and killed by Buffalo Grove police early Thursday, in what is the first officer-involved shooting in the village's history, authorities sa...
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Westmont police investigating armed robberyDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - Westmont police are searching for two men who committed a robbery in the parking lot of an apartment complex Wednesday night. According to a news release, the crime happ...
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Second brother testifies Smollett paid for staged attack
Dec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A second man testified Thursday that Jussie Smollett plotted a racist and anti-gay attack on himself and paid the man and his brother to carry it out, giving them lines ...
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Stranger approaches two children in St. CharlesDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A driver asked two children to come near his vehicle in St. Charles Thursday afternoon, authorities said. A man driving a black car approached the children outside thei...
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Sugar Grove woman, teenager charged with harboring a runawayDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - Editor's note: An earlier version contained an incorrect age for Julie Deuchler due to an error in a news release. A woman and a teenager from Sugar Grove are charg...