News Stories from June 29, 2022
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Toll now at 53 in San Antonio as families wait for answers
Jun 29, 2022 8:44 PM - A Mexican immigration official says that in the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering in the Texas heat, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors
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EXPLAINER: Abortion landscape under state 'heartbeat' laws
Jun 29, 2022 8:26 PM - Laws banning most abortions at the point of the 'first detectable heartbeat"are beginning to take effect following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision
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Police: Three men found dead in northern Illinois home
Jun 29, 2022 8:13 PM - Authorities are investigating after three men were found dead in a northern Illinois house
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Was it Trump? How Darren Bailey won the GOP primary -- and the suburbs -- to face PritzkerJun 29, 2022 7:41 PM - Was it Trump's nod? Door knocking, including in the suburbs? Billionaire dollars? How Darren Bailey won Illinois' Republican primary for governor and what's next, as Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn't pull punches.
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Mexican migrant in Texas tragedy hoped to reach kin in Ohio
Jun 29, 2022 7:27 PM - Two cousins from a remote community in southern Mexico were among the 67 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned under the sweltering Texas sun
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1/6 hearings fuel the question: Did Trump commit a crime?
Jun 29, 2022 6:57 PM - The House Jan. 6 committee has now heard dramatic testimony from former White House aides and others about Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election
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Celebrate Fourth of July at Aurora's Tanner House MuseumJun 29, 2022 6:56 PM - Aurorans can participate in old-fashioned Independence Day fun on Monday, July 4, at the Tanner House Museum.
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NTSB: Amtrak train was below speed limit before fatal crash
Jun 29, 2022 6:43 PM - The National Transportation Safety Board says an Amtrak passenger train was going about 87 mph when it collided with a dump truck at a rural Missouri railway crossing, killing four people
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Two exhibits honoring veterans at First Division MuseumJun 29, 2022 6:39 PM - This summer, stop by the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park for two new exhibits: "Panel 44: Eight Days in March," a traveling exhibit commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and "The Mexican American Military Experience."
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If narrow 'no' vote holds, Arlington Heights District 25 could go to referendum again in the fallJun 29, 2022 6:39 PM - Only 71 votes separate "no" from "yes" in Arlington Heights Elementary District 25's referendum to raise taxes to fund full-day kindergarten and school building upgrades, as results continued to trickle in Wednesday and district leaders weighed trying again in November.
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