Barbara Vitello
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Theater events: 'Heartbreak Hotel' debuts, 'Mind Reader' gets extensionJun 29, 2018 6:00 am - • Previews begin Friday, June 29, for The Factory Theater's premiere of "The Adventures of Spirit Force Five," Jill Oliver's comedy about a cheerleading squad that rescu...
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Prosecution witness says Rudd's wife's death was no accidentJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - A former Cook County chief medical examiner testified Friday that Donnie Rudd's second wife was killed by blows to her head, disputing a defense expert's account that sh...
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Pathologist testifies head injury, not broken neck, killed 19-year-old brideJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - Happy and beautiful. That was how Karen Mezera described her older sister Noreen Kumeta on Aug. 18, 1973, the day Noreen married Donnie Rudd, a patent attorney whom she ...
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Theater spotlight: Steel Beam updates 'Importance of Being Earnest'Jun 26, 2018 6:00 am - 'Earnest' with a twist Steel Beam Theatre updates "The Importance of Being Earnest," Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners, with a midcentury twist. Director Sean Hargadon, of...
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Prosecutors in murder trial: 19-year-old bride 'a means to an end'Jun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Prosecutors in former suburban lawyer Donnie Rudd's murder trial painted him as a man who married his 19-year-old second wife Noreen Kumeta after a whirlwind courtship, ...
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Jury picked for trial of man charged with murdering new bride in 1973Jun 25, 2018 1:00 am - With jury selection concluded Monday afternoon, opening statements are scheduled for Tuesday in the trial of a former Northwest suburban attorney charged with murdering ...
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Car accident, or murder? 45 years later victim's husband goes on trialJun 23, 2018 1:00 am - In 1973, 19-year-old newlywed Noreen Kumeta Rudd was killed near Dundee and Bateman roads in Barrington Township in what authorities initially believed was an automobile...
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Waukegan man charged with sexually assaulting Mount Prospect womanJun 22, 2018 1:00 am - A Waukegan man who prosecutors said told a woman to "just go with it" while sexually assaulting her in her Mount Prospect home was ordered held on $200,000 bail Friday. ...
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Theater events: Magician David Parr opens his Cabinet of CuriositiesJun 21, 2018 6:00 am - • Magician David Parr, of the long-running Magic Cabaret, opens his Cabinet of Curiosities from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Chicago Magic Lounge, 5050 N. Clark S...
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Palatine woman arrested on drug chargeJun 20, 2018 1:00 am - A Palatine woman was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute after officers executed a search warrant Tuesday at a Palatine home wher...