Ted Cox
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Judge sets Blagojevich trial to start on scheduleJun 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Judge James Zagel dismissed a pair of 11th-hour motions by the Blagojevich defense team to delay the trial today and set the corruption case for jury selection to begin ...
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Cook County board flip-flops on Arizona boycottJun 01, 2010 11:00 pm - In a day full of indecision, the Cook County Board passed a boycott of Arizona businesses over the state's new immigration law, then turned right around and approved a r...
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Cook Board makes separate health board permanentJun 01, 2010 11:00 pm - The Cook County Board voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to make the independent board overseeing the Health & Hospitals System permanent. The board voted by a seemingly veto-...
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Cook Co. Board caves in to Stroger on hiring, raisesJun 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Opposition to Cook County President Todd Stroger's lame-duck raises, hirings and so-called 24-nine personal-services contracts collapsed at the county-board meeting Tues...
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Former cop sues Buffalo Grove, officers over wrongful convictionMay 28, 2010 11:00 pm - A former Willow Springs police officer filed a federal suit against Buffalo Grove and two fellow law-enforcement officers Friday after spending more than 19 years in a M...
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Judge denies defense motion, pushes Blagojevich trial toward startMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich failed again today to delay his corruption trial, this time arguing the judge was wrong to screen out potential jurors who said spen...
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Streamwood, cop hit with lawsuit over videotaped beatingMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Ronald Bell, the man seen beaten by Cpl. James Mandarino on a squad-car dashboard video in March, filed a federal suit against the officer and the village of Streamwood ...
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Stroger aide Mullins denies brother got firms '24-9' contractsMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Eugene Mullins, communications director for Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, denied his brother Brian Mullins got firms so-called 24-nine no-bid contracts in re...
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State lawmaker steps back from 'pain' remarksMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - State Rep. Karen May of Highland Park stepped back Wednesday from remarks she made Monday at a Democratic news conference proposing state budget cuts. Proposing that sta...
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Des Plaines man charged with mortgage fraudMay 25, 2010 11:00 pm - A Des Plaines man was charged Wednesday with being the ringleader of what Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez called "a very complicated and sophisticated scheme"...