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A number of petitions and community efforts are calling for the reinstatement of Huntley High School security guard and football coach John Woo.

An online petition created by Huntley High School students claimed that Woo was fired for preventing a fight between two students and stopping two students from getting hurt.

"Students are upset that Coach Woo is no longer walking the school halls and bonding with students," the petition read.

After decades of being identified only as "Jane Doe," former Harvard woman Peggy Lynn Johnson will be buried next to her mother and grandparents on what would have been her 44th birthday.

Johnson was buried as "Jane Doe" in 1999, shortly after a jogger discovered the 23-year-old's body on the side of a Wisconsin road.

Singer/songwriter Hunter Hayes will be the opening act for "Splash into Country" at the RISE Up Foundation’s inaugural Rise Up Music Fest.

The two-day festival is set for June 19 and 20 at Petersen Park in McHenry.

Hayes, a five-time Grammy nominee, will open for Brantley Gilbert for the "Splash into County" concert June 20, which will also include the multiplatinum Grammy-winning Eli Young Band, will raise funds for a new splash pad in the city.

Also opening for Gilbert is Zach Mil

Five months after an arbitrator ruled that a former Algonquin Township road district employee was improperly fired, he still has not been reinstated to his position, leading an arbitrator to grant him a supplemental arbitration award.

Dan Morrison, a former heavy equipment operator, was fired on Jan.

A sentencing hearing for the Crystal Lake mother who pleaded guilty to murdering her 5-year-old son AJ Freund is set to take place April 30.

Cunningham made a brief court appearance Thursday at the McHenry County courthouse in Woodstock, where judge Robert Wilbrandt set the case for sentencing. Cunningham pleaded guilty Dec. 5 to first-degree murder in connection with AJ's death.

She faces a maximum possible 60-year prison sentence. Cunningham wouldn't be eligible for parole until she is 96 years old.

McHenry Township voters are calling a special electors meeting Friday to save the senior bus service for another year.

The special meeting, which will be held at 7 p.m. at the McHenry Township Hall, located at 3703 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg, will be run by registered voters in the township.

A special meeting of the board of trustees was also called for 6:30 p.m. Friday.

The purpose of the special electors meeting on Feb.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new coronavirus case in California could be the first in the U.S. that has no known connection to travel abroad or another known case, a possible sign the virus is spreading in a U.S. community, health officials said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the case Wednesday.

California officials said the person is a resident of Solano County, northeast of San Francisco, and is getting medical care in Sacramento County.

SPRINGFIELD — State lawmakers on a human services panel were visibly emotional Wednesday as they listened to a domestic violence survivor recount how her estranged husband killed her 18-month-old son.

Cassandra Tanner-Miller was standing in her kitchen in September 2019 when “this monster” entered her home through the back sliding doors, asked if she and her two children were “ready to die today” and beat her “relentlessly” and “violently.”

He shot her son, Colton, 10 times in the head before Tanner-Mil

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois public and charter schools would be mandated to teach students from kindergarten through 12th grade “inclusive, medically accurate, and culturally appropriate comprehensive sex education” if legislation announced Wednesday becomes law.

The curriculum, not currently mandated, would include information children and youth need to prevent bullying, foster healthy relationships and prevent abuse or violence, a group of advocates and lawmakers said at a news conference.

The bill’s Democratic spon