Articles filed under Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
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How a Wheaton officer reunited boy with a treasured autographed baseball
Mar 24, 2023 6:28 AM - Wheaton Property Control Officer Brian Lipowski knows his baseball. So, when he found a Nolan Ryan-autographed ball during an audit of items in police custody, he knew someone would be missing it. Here's what he did reunite the ball with its owner.
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Expressway shootings are down, but road rage is on the rise
Mar 17, 2023 5:07 AM - The number of shootings along Chicago-area expressways continues to fall this year after a record 310 in 2021, but within that nugget of good news is a worrying trend. Shooting victims are increasingly reporting that road rage is the reason behind the gunfire.
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She stopped to complain about police lights. Now she's facing DUI charges.
Mar 10, 2023 5:30 AM - Nobody likes bright lights from another vehicle in their face while driving in the dark. But when those lights are coming from a police vehicle that's pulled over for a traffic stop, you might not want to stop in the middle of the road to complain. Especially if you've been drinking.
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A flurry of filings as SAFE-T Act fight heads to state Supreme Court
Mar 3, 2023 5:00 AM - After a flurry of legal filings this week, the opposing sides in the fight over the elimination of cash bail in Illinois are now less than two weeks away from a SAFE-T Act showdown before the state Supreme Court.
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'We hurt our own families': How a purported cryptocurrency scam targeted Latinos in the suburbs
Feb 24, 2023 5:30 AM - A local group is urging victims of a cryptocurrency scam that targeted Latinos in Chicago and the suburbs to speak up. And it wants the state attorney general to help them get justice.
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Something fishy: Former St. Charles restaurant operator accused of stealing thousands in seafood
Feb 10, 2023 6:00 AM - The former operator of a St. Charles seafood restaurant and store has been accused of stealing more than $185,000 in seafood as part of an alleged scheme involving workers at a Bensneville wholesaler.
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'Pinnacle of a career': New chief of Chicago FBI office says there's a lot to be done
Feb 3, 2023 5:00 AM - Meet Robert W. "Wes" Wheeler Jr., the new special agent in charge of the FBI's Chicago field office. "The capacity for impactfulness is what appeals to me," he said about the posting.
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Does bail reform lead to more crime? What 2 Loyola University professors found
Jan 27, 2023 8:16 AM - Amid last year's contentious debate over the SAFE-T Act and the elimination of cash bail in Illinois, a pair of Loyola University Chicago criminal justice professors set out to determine whether bail reform does, as some claimed, lead to more crime. Here's what they found.
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Guns in peanut butter and a whole chicken: What TSA agents found during a record-breaking 2022
Jan 20, 2023 5:00 AM - A record 6,542 firearms were seized at airport checkpoints across the country last year, and you won't believe where some of them were found.
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so far
Jan 13, 2023 8:19 AM - The Brown's Chicken murders isn't the only suburban cold case where DNA is credited with identifying a killer.
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