Barbara Vitello
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Special ed teacher not guilty of battery, restraint of studentsDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - "Patrick McCarthy, you are free to go." Except for the "not guilty" finding from Cook County Judge John Scotillo moments earlier, those were the sweetest words 32-year-...
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2008's suburban theater highlightsDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - 2008 turned out to be a banner year for Drury Lane Theatre Oak Brook, the west suburban mainstay that until recently had ceded its place among top Chicago-area musical t...
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Trial begins in death if Buffalo Grove studentDec 15, 2008 10:00 pm - Testimony opened Monday in the trial of a Lake Forest woman charged with failure to report a crash that killed Buffalo Grove High School senior Mateusz Szakola in April ...
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Degorski trial set in Brown's caseDec 12, 2008 10:00 pm - April 30, 2009. By that date, the families of Michael Castro, Lynn and Richard Ehlenfeldt, Guadalupe Maldonado, Thomas Mennes, Marcus Nellsen and Rico Solis will have wa...
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Prospect Hts. man gets 6 years for sexual abuse of 6-year-oldDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Prospect Heights resident Charles Dobson, of the 700 block of Glendale, was sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections Wednesday for sexually abusi...
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Man gets 80 years for Rolling Meadows murdersDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Almost two years to the day after the Dec. 14, 2006, murders of Buffalo Grove's Catonis "Tony" Jones and Sharmaine "Cookie" Gregory, a Cook County judge sentenced Robert...
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500 Clown comes to the 'burbsDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - The innovative physical theater ensemble 500 Clown brings to Naperville its wonderfully subversive, anti-Rockwellian "500 Clown Christmas," a wholly entertaining show th...
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Former Arlington Heights man gets 80 years for double murdersDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Almost two years to the day after the Dec. 14, 2006, murders of Buffalo Grove's Catonis "Tony" Jones and Sharmaine "Cookie" Gregory, a Cook County judge sentenced Robert...
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Aides testify about concerns for autistic studentsDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - The mood grew tense in Rolling Meadows Courtroom 110 Wednesday during defense attorney Thomas Breen's cross-examination of a onetime teacher's aide to Patrick McCarthy, ...
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Trial focuses on chaos of special needs classesDec 09, 2008 10:00 pm - Day two of former special education teacher Patrick McCarthy's trial on charges of battery and unlawful restraint of three autistic students included testimony about how...