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Eighth graders at Hannah Beardsley Middle School got hands-on learning experience in the manufacturing field by building nonfunctional wooden motorcycle models borrowed from Illinois State University on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, in Crystal Lake.

Marcy Hippler of Cary took her 14-year-old schnauzer, Teddy, out for some exercise Thursday at the Hoffman Park dog park in Cary.

The McHenry County College Workforce, Community and Business Program will offer QuickBooks Online accounting software training from 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays from Jan. 13 through Feb. 17 at the MCC Shah Center, 4100 W. Shamrock Lane, McHenry.

The course is designed to cover the cloud-computing version of the program.

QuickBooks is a small-business accounting program that makes it easier to organize one’s finances. QuickBooks Online is a distinct product that has features that work differently than desktop versions.

Grubhub said there is no process in place to sell the company, a day after media reports said the company was exploring its options as competition in the food delivery business grows increasingly competitive.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Grubhub Inc. – the second-largest player in the U.S.

WOODRIDGE – Leaders of a U.S. Army Reserve unit that controls thousands of soldiers across the western U.S.

CHICAGO – DNA tests to determine if a coyote captured on Chicago’s North Side is the same animal that attacked a 6-year-old boy will take weeks to complete, a city animal control official said Friday.

Jenny Schlueter of the Chicago Animal Care and Control said the coyote that was captured Thursday night will be held at a Chicago-area animal rehabilitation center until the tests are completed.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. military tried, but failed, to take out another senior Iranian commander on the same day that an American airstrike killed the Revolutionary Guard's top general, U.S. officials said Friday.

The officials said a military airstrike by special operations forces targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, a high-ranking commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps but the mission was not successful.

HOUSTON – Texas no longer will accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order, Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday.

Abbott's announcement could have major implications for refugees coming to the United States.

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s caretaker prime minister asked Washington to work out a road map for an American troop withdrawal, but the U.S.

WASHINGTON – The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Donald Trump, six people familiar with the deliberations said.

A document outlining the plans – timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Trump’s January 2017 executive order – has been circulating the White House.