Hampshire
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Part-time employee has full-time responsibilityOct 31, 2021 4:27 pm - For a 20-hour a week employee, Mary Stola has some far-reaching responsibilities. "My approach involves the mind, body and spirit," said Stola. "My job is to see if any...
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Hampshire girl hits hole-in-oneOct 31, 2021 4:26 pm - She's only 12, but last month Hampshire resident Connie Ellett accomplished something some golfers wait their entire lives to do. She hit her first career hole-in-one o...
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Juror who voted to spare Luna's life 'at peace' with her decisionOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - The lone juror whose vote spared Juan Luna's life in the Brown's Chicken trial last week is praying for the families of seven people slain in a Palatine restaurant 14 ye...
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Families' reactions reflect split views of justiceOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - Some had hoped desperately for this. Others had wished publicly for Juan Luna's death, their eyes watering over when jurors said no. But the grief-stricken families of t...
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Trial 'took a toll on us all'Oct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - For five weeks, they've sat in the same chairs and listened to tearful testimony and gruesome details of the bloody case. They couldn't sleep. They couldn't see their fa...
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Thoughtfulness saved life of man who didn't think of othersOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - It's not so easy to snuff out a life -- when you think about it. After thinking about it for two hours in a room by themselves, a jury of 12 people from different walks ...
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'Violence does not end violence'Oct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - In a rare display of mid-trial unity Tuesday, Juan Luna's relatives joined the family of one his victims outside the Cook County courthouse Tuesday morning to protest th...
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Pondering death for LunaOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - Five years ago, Manny Castro vowed to "pull the plug" on the man charged with murdering his teenage son and six others in a Palatine restaurant. Yet a day after 12 juror...
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Now, should Brown's reward be paid?Oct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - The killers of seven people at the Palatine Brown's Chicken have had a bounty of more than $100,000 on their heads since the vicious slayings in 1993. Yet with Thursday'...
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Suburbanites will always carry sadness for Brown's victimsOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - One piece of the puzzling murder that has haunted the suburbs since a cold, bleak January night in 1993 finally fit into place Thursday just as a sunny, glorious May aft...