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At NRA convention, both sides of gun debate

HOUSTON — On the morning of the first day of the National Rifle Assn. convention, before the doors opened, scores of visitors lined up outside the convention center, part of what organizers expect will be a record crowd. Among them was Tilman...

Tags: Interior Policy, Rick Perry, Joe Biden, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Area residents brace for flooding

Property owners in the Chicago area who have suffered through flooding in the past face the possibility for more of the same Thursday and Friday, as hard rains continue to pound saturated ground. Additional rounds of heavy thunderstorms could dump...

Tags: Weather, Floods, Des Plaines, Bodies of Water, National Weather Service

Former principal accused of sending offensive letters to parents in Johnsburg

Tribune reporter

The former principal of a McHenry County Catholic school has been charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly sending offensive letters to parents and the church pastor, but her attorney said the woman committed no crime. Johnsburg police Chief...

Tags: Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Trials, McHenry

State rests case in Johnsburg murder retrial

Special to the Tribune

A jury on Tuesday could start deliberating the fate of a man being tried for the second time in the 2002 disappearance and presumed murder of a Johnsburg teenager. Closing arguments are set for Tuesday morning in the first-degree murder trial of Mario...

Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Prosecution

Basketball | Locals in the NCAA Tournament

MEN Akron    Deji Ibitayo, Rich Central, So., G, 6-3, 205 Albany  Mike Black, Fenwick, Sr., G, 6-0, 180 Boise State         Derrick Marks, Plainfield Central, So., G, 6-3, 206 Davidson         Clay Tormey, Chicago, Jr., G, 5-11, 165...

Tags: Highland Park (Cook, Illinois), Harvard, Monee, Lake Zurich, Lake Forest

Week 9 schedule: Oct. 15-22

Week 9 – Oct. 15-21 All games 7:30 unless noted. TUESDAY, OCT. 16 CHICAGO INTER-CITY 2 Bronzeville vs. Gage Park, 6 at Gately Hirsch vs. Dyett, 4 at Eckersall Urban Prep-West vs. Juarez, 6 at Hanson CHICAGO INTER-CITY 4 Johnson vs. Hawkins,...

Tags: Oak Lawn, Huntley, Palatine, Cary, Woodstock (McHenry, Illinois)

Judge delays retrial of decade-old McHenry County murder case for more DNA tests

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The Illinois State Crime lab is testing evidence in a decade-old case as the defense and prosecutors prepare for the second trial of a man charged in the slaying of a teenage stock-boy at a McHenry County grocery store. Twelve blood stains, two finger...

Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Judges

Allen 'Lefty' Karlen

Columbia: The funeral service for Allen “Lefty” Karlen, 66, of Columbia will be 2 p.m. Friday, March 23, 2012, at Carlsen Funeral Home and Crematory, 1708 Eighth Ave. N.E. The Rev. Tom Haggar will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens...

Tags: Target Brands, Inc., Funeral Parlor and Crematorium

Emergency crews recover body of ice fisherman near Johnsburg

The search that began Friday night for an ice fisherman who disappeared at a lake in McHenry County, ended in tragedy. The body of 29-year-old Justin Ribar was pulled from Pistakee Lake near Johnsburg Saturday morning. Emergency crews began to search...

Tags: Fishing, McHenry

Body of fisherman recovered from McHenry County lake

The body of a 29-year-old fisherman was recovered this morning from a lake near northwest suburban Johnsburg after he reportedly fell into the water Friday night. Justin Ribar of Wonder Lake was pronounced dead at 11:12 a.m., soon after the body was...

Tags: Wonder Lake, Lakes and Ponds, McHenry

SECOND UPDATE: Jurors deadlocked, mistrial declared in Mario Casciaro murder trial