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As ComEd crews worked to restore power to about 200,000 following storms packing winds up to 90 mph today, the National Weather Service warned of more storms to come--and what "could be a rather unrelenting" heat wave. In a tense courtroom filled with 7-year-old Heaven Sutton's family, an angry Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. told alleged gang member Jerrell Dorsey: "You're dangerous people. No bail." A McHenryCounty SWAT team found a man dead in his Algonquin home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after police responded to a call of an armed, suicidal man barricading himself in a home, police said. |
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