News Stories from August 3, 2022
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Former boxing world champion Johnny Famechon dies aged 77
Aug 3, 2022 10:54 PM - Former boxing world champion Johnny Famechon has died in Melbourne after a lengthy illness
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Hoffman Estates allows Obama Library archives to stay for four more yearsAug 3, 2022 9:34 PM - While no firm date has been announced for the completion and opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Library near The University of Chicago, its future contents will stay in Hoffman Estates for another four years.
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Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook attack was '100% real'
Aug 3, 2022 8:56 PM - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he now understands he was irresponsible to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax, and he now believes it was '100% real.'
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UN chief criticizes `grotesque greed' of oil companies
Aug 3, 2022 7:34 PM - The United Nations chief is sharply criticizing the 'grotesque greed' of oil and gas companies for making record profits from the energy crisis on the back of the world's poorest people
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Fox Valley Mall to host Dinosaur Show Aug. 6 benefiting Highland Park victimsAug 3, 2022 7:22 PM - Fox Valley Mall is hosting five family-friendly Dinosaur Shows on Saturday, Aug. 6, starting at 11:30 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m.
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One of the world's largest figure skating competitions returns to Bensenville this weekAug 3, 2022 7:17 PM - Nearly 750 ice skaters are registered to compete in the 2022 ISI World Recreational Team Championships at the Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville from Aug. 4 to 7. Mariah Bell, 2022 Olympian and U.S. Champion, stars in the Benefit Show on Saturday, Aug. 6.
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Election skeptics rise in GOP races to run state elections
Aug 3, 2022 7:07 PM - The Trump-endorsed Arizona lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for secretary of state is the latest candidate to advance to the November ballot for a post overseeing state elections while denying the results of the last one
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Wind-whipped fire leaves Northern California hamlet in ashes
Aug 3, 2022 7:01 PM - Some evacuation orders have been lifted for towns near a Northern California wildfire that has claimed at least four lives
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Journalist, 3 others killed in Mexico; 13th this year
Aug 3, 2022 6:51 PM - A journalist was among four people killed inside a beer shop in central Mexico, the 13th media worker killed in the country this year
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Huntley High grads open Warhouse Barbell strength training facilityAug 3, 2022 6:36 PM - Brothers and Huntley High School graduates, Dimitrios (DJ) and Anthony Yatos, have opened a strength training facility in Huntley after years of hosting athletes in their basement.
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