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Yesterday | Naperville Sun

Legal troubles mount for accused arsonist

A Naperville man already awaiting trial on arson and narcotics-related charges has new legal trouble, after being arrested for allegedly having a stolen computer in his home.

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Related Topix: Naperville, IL, Drugs, Joliet, IL

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Fox Valley Shopping News

Oswego man jailed in Internet sex case

An unemployed Oswego man was in Will County Jail Wednesday night on charges of trying to arrange a sexual rendezvous with a teenage girl who turned out to be an undercover Naperville police detective.

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Related Topix: Naperville, IL, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Homer Sun

Will County approves conservation design use

Amendments to a Will County ordinance make it easier for subdivision developers to use conservation design, which preserves an area's natural resources.

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Related Topix: New Lenox, IL, Monee, IL, Joliet, IL

Tue Jun 30, 2009

willcountywatcher.wordpress.com | Will county watcher

ACORN Rent-A-Mob Thugs to Harass Lenders in 14 Cities Tuesday

ACORN, which played a starring role in creating the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to add insult to injury by harassing lenders across the nation with protests tomorrow in an effort to coerce them into supporting President Obamaa TMs Making Home Affordable foreclosure-avoidance program.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Economics News, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosures, US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Illinois

Mon Jun 29, 2009

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Rep. will discuss business benefit

Rural and underrepresented communities in Illinois are one-step closer to having more access to Small Business Innovation Research awards, thanks to a piece of legislation proposed by U.S. Rep.

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Related Topix: Plainfield, IL

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The SouthtownStar

Orland Park police arrest man wanted in kidnapping

A Joliet man, wanted in connection with a kidnapping in McDowell County, N.C., was spotted by Orland Park police and taken into custody about 3 a.m. Saturday.

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Related Topix: Orland Park, IL

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Daily Journal/Sunday Journal

Man's body found at Kankakee River State Park

The body of a Wilmington man was found Sunday morning in Kankakee State River Park Hunting Area 7 in Will County.

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Related Topix: Wilmington, IL, Kankakee, IL, Kankakee Metro

Mon Jun 22, 2009

cbs2chicago.com

Teen Pleads Not Guilty To Stabbing 4-Year-Old Girl

A Mokena teen who told police he slit his 4-year-old half-sister's throat because he couldn't get a gun to kill the person he believed was abusing the girl pleaded innocent today to two counts of first-degree murder.

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Related Topix: Mokena, IL

Fox Valley Shopping News

I-355 communities hope to connect via trails

It's all about connections. Just as motorists now can easily travel from New Lenox to Bolingbrook and points further north via Interstate 355, so also will bicyclists some day.

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Related Topix: New Lenox, IL, Bolingbrook, IL, Lockport, IL, Homer Glen, IL, Lemont, IL

cbs2chicago.com

Plea Deal In Naperville Middle School Sex Assault

One of two Naperville middle school boys accused of sexually assaulting a classmate pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony.

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Related Topix: Naperville, IL

Sat Jun 20, 2009

WBBM-AM Chicago

Police: DNA links man to attack

Police say DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a teenager last year in southwest suburban Joliet.

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Related Topix: Joliet, IL, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Fri Jun 19, 2009

WAND-TV Decatur

FBI joins Riley Fox murder investigation

The FBI has joined Will County authorities in their investigation of the 2004 murder of a 3-year-old Wilmington girl Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert D. Grant announced the formal cooperation Thursday, and said FBI agents have been informally reviewing the case of Riley Fox for about a year.

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Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Wilmington, IL, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Naperville Sun

At least one dead in train-car crash

At least one person was killed when an Amtrak train bound for Chicago struck a car which was on the tracks in Romeoville.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Chicago Metro, Romeoville, IL

Herald News

Intermodal, USA? Nope, Will County

Centerpoint Properties' new intermodal, which is under construction on the city's south side, could one day be where east meets west in Will County.

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Related Topix: Elwood, IL, Joliet, IL

Wed Jun 17, 2009

WGN-TV Chicago

Cops: Teen details half-sister's killing

A Mokena teenager told police that he cut his 4-year-old half-sister's throat with a steak knife and stabbed her while his younger brother played a wrestling video game upstairs, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by a Mokena detective in Will County Circuit Court.

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Related Topix: Mokena, IL, Video Games

Mon Jun 15, 2009

Arlington Heights Daily Herald

Second body found in Des Plaines River

One week after human remains washed up on the shore of the Des Plaines River, sparking speculation they could be those of missing Will County women Stacy Peterson or Lisa Stebic, another grisly discovery was made farther north.

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Related Topix: Downers Grove, IL, Dupage County, IL, Channahon, IL

Sat Jun 13, 2009

PR-inside.com

AAA Chicago: June Monthly Fuel Prices Highest of 2009

Fuel prices have increased again during the last month in Illinois and northern Indiana, leaving the Midwest with some of the highest prices in the country for June 2009.

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Related Topix: Cook County, IL, Dupage County, IL, Kane County, IL, Lake County, IL, Champaign County, IL

Naperville Sun

Will County to vote on burning rules next week

The Will County Board will vote next week on a new version of an ordinance to regulate the outdoor burning of grass, leaves and branches.

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The SouthtownStar

Officials seek woman charged with criminal neglect in mom's death

Will County sheriff's police are still searching for a Frankfort Township woman who, along with her sister have been charged with criminal neglect of an elderly person.

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Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Frankfort Square, IL

Fri Jun 12, 2009

Morris Daily Herald

Channahon man dead, his mother wounded after murder-suicide try

CHANNAHON – Reports were unfounded earlier today that a second person has died as a result of an apparent murder-suicide by shotgun in the home of the shooter.

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Related Topix: Channahon, IL

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