Barbara Vitello
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Hoffman Estates man gets 18 years for sex abuse of 11-year-oldJan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Cook County Judge John Scotillo sentenced 52-year-old Elias Leon to a total of 18 years in prison Wednesday for sexually abusing a young girl. A jury convicted Leon of ...
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Judge denies Schaumburg man's request to suppress statementsJan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Chad Lee Hardy admitted to Cook County prosecutors that he lacks legal expertise. "My knowledge of the law is off of TV," the Schaumburg resident told Assistant State's ...
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Attorney claims mistaken ID of accused shooterJan 20, 2009 10:00 pm - He didn't do it. So says Peter E. Garbis, attorney for Ronnie Kindred, arrested Monday for shooting at employees of a car repossession company last week as they attempt...
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Headed for Washington -- with or without ticketsJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Joining the movers and shakers descending on Washington, D.C., today for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration will be a sizable contingent of regular folks from t...
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Rolling Meadows firefighter indicted on sex abuse chargeJan 16, 2009 10:00 pm - A Rolling Meadows firefighter was indicted Friday on charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, unlawful restraint and official misconduct. Donald Naughton, 40, who li...
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Mount Prospect man indicted in mother's deathJan 16, 2009 10:00 pm - A Cook County grand jury has indicted Mount Prospect resident Paul Castronovo, 43, on charges of first-degree murder and concealment of a homicide in the December death ...
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Another suit filed in drowningsJan 14, 2009 10:00 pm - The family of Jimmy Avant, one of three Chicago teens who drowned last November while on a leadership retreat at McHenry County's Camp Algonquin, have filed a wrongful-d...
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Big laughs in Little Italy at College of DuPageJan 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's season continues with "Italian-American Reconciliation," John Patrick Shanley's dark comedy about a man whose obsession with his ex-wife threa...
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Drury Lane's fine 'Saigon' revival overcomes troubled plottingJan 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Welcome news for suburban theatergoers. Drury Lane Oak Brook's well-sung, wisely staged revival of "Miss Saigon" suggests that the renaissance that began at the theater ...
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Teen sentenced to eight years for abusing 6-year-oldJan 12, 2009 10:00 pm - A child traumatized. A teenager in prison. A family devastated. The case of the 15-year-old Elgin resident charged with the aggravated criminal sexual assault of a 6-...