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Jonathan Howe, 25, Joliet, was placed on supervision for two years and fined $675 for DUI.

The topic: The suspension of Ransom's St. Patrick Church What happened? Marie Mertes' church was suspended.

The circuit court grand jury Wednesday returned indictments against 19 defendants.

The Grundy County State's Attorney's Office will not pursue hate crime charges against two men accused of beating a Muslim man in November.

A federal judge on Wednesday put off making a decision on setting bond for a Chicago businessman accused of planning a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper, saying she needed to study more of the evidence, including two purported al-Qaida videos discovered in the defendant's home.

Juan Rodriguez couldn't even recognize Faud Nafie when he picked him up from the hospital.

A Middle Eastern man working at a Grundy County slaughterhouse raided as part of a wide-scale terrorism probe in Chicago has paid the price for his boss' alleged crimes: Police say he was pummeled at a Kinsman bar by two men, one of whom allegedly shouted racial slurs.

Authorities in Chicago are looking into allegations two local men accused of plotting an assault on a Danish newspaper that published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad may be linked to other plots, including a terrorist assault in Mumbai last year that left more than 170 dead, sources said.

TWO MEN were charged with aggravated battery for beating a man in Kinsman early on Sunday, Nov.

I wondered why my 2005 Thomson post was getting so many hits. The guys took my advice, but geez no one doubts the ability of Illinois to keep 'em locked up.

Animals graze on a farm in Kinsman, Ill. Federal agents swarmed the farm last month as they closed in on two Chicago-area men believed to be involved in a terrorist conspiracy: Tahawwur Rana and David Coleman Headley.

The would-be terrorists -- one an American, the other a Canadian -- called their plot to murder two Danish newspapermen the "Mickey Mouse Project." The cutesy code-name may have stemmed from the fact that David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana allegedly planned to murder the men they held responsible for the 2005 " Danish Cartoon ...

A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a member of a Pakistan-based terrorist group on how to slip people into the U.S., prosecutors said Tuesday.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 6:44 pm US/Central A federal judge says she needs more information before deciding whether to deny bond to one of two Chicago men charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper.

Two Chicago men have been arrested on federal charges that link them to planning terrorist acts - including targeting a Danish newspaper that published a controversial cartoon of the prophet Mohammed in 2005.

DEVELOPING: Two Chicago men have been charged in connection with the planning of terrorist acts against overseas targets, including a Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.

Federal agents investigating possible Immigration irregularities conducted raids at a Grundy County meatpacking business and several Chicago locations over the weekend, sources familiar with the probe said Monday.

At one time, if I was asked if I heard what had happened in Kinsman, it only meant one thing - a bar fight had broken out.

In Kinsman, Illinois , a local slaughterhouse has been raided by the FBI. The tiny town of Kinsman has been shaken by the unexpected raid.

Information is sketchy about an FBI raid at a slaughterhouse Sunday near the La Salle-Grundy County line.