Five injured after truck crashes into McHenry Starbucks
January 17, 2020Five people were injured, one critically, when a medical emergency caused a 53-year old man to slam into the front area and drive-thru lane of a Starbuck’s Coffee in McHenry,…
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Leavitt: Our happy lives among the cheats, thieves and grifters
January 15, 2020Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley was caught shoveling $1 million worth of no-bid city insurance contracts to his son John in February 1973. He delivered a shameless and unintentionally…
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Home of young murder victim A.J. Freund approved for demolition
January 13, 2020The Crystal Lake City Council voted unanimously to accept a bid that will raze the 94 S. Dole Ave. house where 5-year-old AJ Freund was murdered, and a separate bid to remove hazardous…
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Leavitt: 2020 New Year’s resolution: The Poverty Diet
January 7, 2020I’m thrilled that we have fixed our $22 trillion national debt by denying profligate $127 monthly food stamp payments. Got ’er done! About $1 billion a year is wasted on Americans…
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Riley Township approves McRide Intergovernmental Agreement
January 7, 2020The Riley Township Board voted 4-1 to continue the county’s McRide service through the 2020 calendar year by approving a county entity intergovernmental agreement, during its Nov….
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Men sentenced for sexual assaults in McHenry County
January 4, 2020Two men have been sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting children in McHenry County. David Freeman, 29, formerly of Bloomington, was sentenced to 11 years in the Illinois Department…
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Woman killed in crash near Woodstock
January 3, 2020A 24-year-old Harvard woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash that occurred New Year’s Day near Woodstock. At 2:51 a.m. Jan. 1, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office and…
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Leavitt: Illinois’ cops and courthouses are still in the marijuana business
January 1, 2020Recreational marijuana is now legal in Illinois. Kinda. There are lots of exceptions, and those exceptions are likely to be flexible. That flexibility will probably not be in your favor,…
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