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Police Blotter: Battery, Destroying Evidence, Drugs
Lydia V. Cooper, 53, 70 Harmony Lane, Romeoville, arrested by the Romeoville Police Department and booked into the Will County jail on Aug. 19 on a charge of domestic battery. Diego Cortez, 21, 216...
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Will County Judge Admits to On-the-Job Porn Viewing; Seeking Professional Help
Will County Judge Joseph Polito says he watched pornography via his courthouse computer during work hours, and is now seeking help to stop his behavior, a story in the Chicago Sun-Times says. Polito...
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Mitchem to New Teachers: 'We Can Make a Difference'
Editor's note: The following is a press release from Valley View School District 365U. Superintendent James Mitchem Jr. Wednesday challenged more than 100 new teachers to “genuinely care for kids” as...
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Grim Death Scene Photos Don't Rattle Chris Vaughn on Murder Trial's First Day
While prosecutors flashed grisly photos of his wife and three young children slumped dead and bleeding in the family SUV, Christopher Vaughn sat expressionless, calmly jotting notes. But that's just...
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Flories to be VVSD’s 6-12 Director of Literacy, Social Studies
Editor's note: The following is a press release from Valley View School District 365U. Romeoville High School’s English Department Chair Karen Flories has been named Valley View School District...
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Hill Student Wins International Sikh Speaking Award
Editor's note: The following is a press release from Valley View School District 365U. R.C. Hill Elementary School 4th grader Japmanjit Singh earned the coveted Distinguished Speaker Award at the...
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VVSD Ready for All-Day Kindergarten
Editor's note: The following is a press release from Valley View School District 365U. All-day kindergarten classes will make their debut at all 12 Valley View School District 365U elementary schools...
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Witness: Savio's Bruises Were Not Caused by Fall
See Drew Peterson news from around the web in our Storify. Updated 7:15 p.m. Dr. Mary Case is still on the witness stand. Defense attorney Darryl Goldberg has been trying to get Case to concede that...
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Kimberly Vaughn 'Happy' in Days Before Murder, Witnesses Testify
Kimberly Vaughn spent the night of June 13, 2007, making dinner for close neighborhood friends and speaking with her sister by phone about study questions for a class she was taking, witnesses...
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Doc Says Homicide in Drew Peterson Case
A second forensic pathologist testified that someone killed Drew Peterson's drowned third wife, Kathleen Savio. The pathologist, Dr. Mary Case, also said the severe bruising on the front of Savio's...
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New Rockin' the Ville Concert Set for Sept. 6
A new Rockin' the Ville concert has been set for Sept. 6, featuring 7th Heaven, the band whose performance at RomeoFest was cancelled by rain. The free show will be held at 7 p.m. at Deer Crossing...
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Valley View Kicks Off New All-Day Kindergarten
All-day kindergarten classes will make their debut at all 12 Valley View School District 365U elementary schools Wednesday. More than 1,000 children will enter newly-created classrooms at 9:05 a.m....
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Add the Punchline to Our Slap Cartoon
Are you blessed with insight and good humor? Or just bored today? Share your wit with your neighbors by entering Patch's comic caption challenge. Just add your dialogue for today's comic in the...
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A Kid's Bucket List? Mom Talk
A child's innocence is a treasure. Watching my little ones grow has been the greatest gift I have given myself. The sparkle of their eyes as they learn and explore will be forever in my memory. The...
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Defense Rest Case After Testimony of Son
See Drew Peterson news from around the web in our Storify. JOLIET, IL -- Updated 5:20 p.m. Drew Peterson's lawyers rested their case after calling one of the accused wife-killer's sons to the stand....
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Dead Body Found in Des Plaines River
A dead body was found floating in the Des Plaines River Wednesday afternoon behind the Midwest Generation Plant on Route 6 in Joliet. Illinois State Police were dispatched to the scene at 12:48 p.m....
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Look Who's Talking at the Drew Peterson Murder Trial
In 20 days over five weeks, 44 men and women testified at the Drew Peterson murder trial. An insurance adjuster, a woman Peterson carried on a sexual affair with while still married to his slain third...
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Peterson Shies Away From Spotlight, Lets Son Take Stand Instead
Drew Peterson loved talking on television after his fourth wife mysteriously vanished, but he turned out to be none too eager to testify from the witness stand at his murder trial. Peterson's lawyers...
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Vaughn Admits in Police Video that Wife Shot Him
Head in his hands, Christopher Vaughn faced the floor, spoke in a barely audible voice and told investigators what he thought they wanted to hear: Yes, his wife shot him. In the second day of...
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Rabid Bat Found in Joliet Apartment
A bat that was removed from a Joliet apartment has tested positive for rabies, the Will County Health Department said Wednesday. It was one of two bats that Joliet Township Animal Control trapped in...
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