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Medical treatments ordered for disbarred attorney charged in 1973 murder
Jan 12, 2016 3:07 PM - Northwest suburban attorney Donnie Rudd has been indicted on murder charges in the 1973 death of his teenage wife less than a month after their marriage. -
'Cold and calculated' attorney accused of killing wife in 1973 held on $4 million bail
Dec 24, 2015 7:39 PM - Bail has been set at $4 million for a former Northwest suburban attorney charged with the 1973 murder of his wife. Donnie Rudd, 73, of Sugar Land, Texas, attended Thursday's bond hearing in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County circuit court, after being released from Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights after treatment for cellulitis earlier this week. -
How police concluded 42-year-old Barrington Twp. case was murder
Dec 22, 2015 8:16 AM - A 2012 cold-case review of the shooting of Arlington Heights interior designer Loretta Tabak-Bodtke led police to former Hoffman Estates lawyer Donnie Rudd and to another death, that of Rudd's 19-year-old wife Noreen Kumeta Rudd of Barrington. Rudd now is accused of killing his bride in 1973. -
Rudd's family history complex before wife's death
Dec 21, 2015 5:51 PM - Murder suspect Donnie Rudd's weekslong marriage to 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta in the summer of 1973 was neither the beginning nor the end of the disbarred attorney's complicated family history. Rudd's longtime stepdaughter, Cindy Mulligan of Barrington, said her mother Dianne Marks began having an affair with Rudd while both were married and serving on the Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 school board in the early 1970s. Mulligan said that from her own 14-year-old perspective, Rudd's sudden marriage to Kumeta came out of nowhere. Today, she's unsure how much she or her mother knew about it before Kumeta died. -
1973 Barrington Twp. murder: Ex-attorney arrested in Texas
Dec 18, 2015 4:51 PM - A former Northwest suburban attorney, school board member and Hoffman Estates plan commissioner was arrested in Texas Thursday and is being charged with murder in connection with the 1973 death of his wife in Barrington Township, a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office said Friday. Donnie Rudd, 73, who was arrested in Sugar Land, Texas, also is a suspect in a 1991 murder of an Arlington Heights woman, police said. -
Barrington-area leaders honor longtime Citizens for Conservation directorDec 7, 2015 5:42 PM - The Barrington Area Council of Governments passed a resolution recently honoring Sam Oliver, the outgoing director of Citizens for Conservation.
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Annual Festival of Trees fundraiser to benefit mental health services
Oct 31, 2015 12:11 AM - Get your tickets now for Ecker Center for Mental Health's 15th annual Festival of Trees dinner and auction fundraising event. It helps raise funds for mental health services offered to clients in the center's service area. Deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 4. -
Barrington Area Council of Governments offers water quality testing Oct. 13Aug 12, 2015 3:38 PM - The Barrington Area Council of Governments (BACOG) will hold a private well water quality testing event on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Water samples will be tested for coliform bacteria, E. coli and nitrate, which can cause illness in humans.
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Barrington Area Council of Governments names McLaughlin chairman
Jun 25, 2015 4:28 PM - The Barrington Area Council of Governments has elected Barrington Hills Village President Martin McLaughlin as its new chairman. -
Why property taxes are up for most of Cook County
Jun 18, 2015 11:56 PM - Property owners in the northern Cook County suburbs can expect an average increase of about $155 on their property tax bills in the coming year, Cook County Clerk David Orr reports. Wheeling residents could see a much bigger increase, while some in Mount Prospect could see tax reductions.
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