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Trevor Wehner was so excited to begin his internship at Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora that he told his Northern Illinois University professor, Terry Bishop, about it Thursday, one day before he was slain in a shooting at the plant.
It was Wehner's first...
Updated: Feb 22, 2019 at 09:53 AM
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"It's been roughly 96 hours since a disgruntled employee who was being terminated killed five people and shot five police officers at the Henry Pratt factory. I said his name one time for the media, and I will never let it cross m...
Updated: Feb 21, 2019 at 09:57 AM
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It's hard to think of the term gratitude at a time when five innocent people are being laid to rest following an act of raw brutality. Our minds cannot fathom the injustice in the stories of the lives lost. Our hearts cannot contai...
Updated: Feb 21, 2019 at 09:19 AM
SHERIDAN, Ill. (AP) - A small funeral home was packed with hundreds of mourners for a 21-year-old college student who was killed on the first day of his internship when a worker opened fire inside an Illinois manufacturing facility.
Trevor Wehner wa...
Updated: Feb 20, 2019 at 09:00 PM
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
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Feb. 17
The Toronto Star on the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty:
Mark Aug. 2, 2019, in your calendar.
That's the day the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, one of t...
Updated: Feb 20, 2019 at 08:31 PM
Northern Illinois University will conduct a vigil, "Standing With Aurora: Honoring Our Huskies," to remember a student and an alumnus who were killed Feb. 15 in the shootings at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora.
The vigil will be at 5 p.m. Thursday in ...
Updated: Feb 19, 2019 at 02:37 PM
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - More than 1,500 people braved snow and freezing drizzle to attend a prayer vigil for five slain co-workers Sunday, two days after they were fatally shot at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant by a longtime employee who was fir...
Published: Feb 18, 2019 at 07:00 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - The victims of an employee who started shooting after hearing he was being fired at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse were co-workers that included a plant manager whose wife says he texted her "I love you, I've been shot at wor...
Published: Feb 18, 2019 at 07:00 AM
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that should have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six other people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant from buying the gun.
Months later,...
Published: Feb 18, 2019 at 07:00 AM
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - The suburban Chicago manufacturing warehouse where five people were fatally shot won't reopen until next week, but its doors will be open to support workers, company officials said Monday.
The Henry Pratt Co. facility in Aurora, ...
Updated: Feb 18, 2019 at 09:31 PM