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Lisle mourning teacher, longtime library board member
Sharon Callais didn’t like to draw attention to herself. Whether it was as a teacher in Lisle Unit District 202 or as a longtime Lisle Public Library board member, those mourning her death this week say she was a modest and quiet woman with great intelligence and a dry wit.
Man charged with murder of NW Side toddler
CHICAGO (STMW) — A Northwest side man has been charged with murder in the death of a two-year-old boy. Officials are investigating an allegation of death by abuse in the case.
Alexander Haig, former secy. of state, dies
Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, a four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own, died Saturday of complications from an infection, his family said. He was 85.
Dead newborn found in North Side closet
CHICAGO (STMW) — A newborn girl was found dead in a closet Friday evening in a North Side Edgewater neighborhood apartment, just blocks from the campus of Loyola University Chicago. Baby girl Molina, born on Thursday, was found dead in the 6100 block of N.
Hearsay Hearing For Drew Peterson Ends
CHICAGO (WBBM) – The end has come to the month-long hearing to determine what hearsay evidence, if any, will be allowed when former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson stands trial for the murder of third wife Kathleen Savio.
$500K bond for driver in crash that killed girl
CHICAGO — Bond was set at $500,000 Friday for an Englewood neighborhood man accused in a crash that killed a 6-year-old girl and critically injured her 21-year-old aunt. A judge…
Genetic testing proving effective in wiping out diseases
Some of mankind’s most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children….
Chris Chelios attorney seeks DUI dismissal
A week after a DuPage County judge ruled Westmont police lacked probable cause to arrest Chris Chelios on a drunken-driving rap, the hockey great’s attorney sought to have the charge officially dismissed. Attorney Terry Ekl filed the defense motion Wednesday morning before DuPage Associate Judge Cary Pierce in light of the judge’s recent ruling that insufficient evidence of impairment existed.
Child clings to life after car hits her in South Side neighborhood
A woman was critically injured and her 4-year-old daughter is clinging to life after being struck by a car Tuesday evening in the South Side Englewood neighborhood. Two ambulances were…
Haitian judge poised to release US missionaries
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The 10 U.S. missionaries facing trial for trying to take a busload of children out of Haiti should be released from jail while an investigation continues, a…