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Robert E. Crimo Jr. arrives at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan on Wednesday to begin serving 60 days in jail and two years of probation. His statement T-shirt prompted a rebuke from Judge George Strickland. – AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

Crimo father reprimanded as he arrives to surrender

The father of the suspect in a deadly Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park turned himself in Wednesday to begin a 60-day jail sentence, but not before the judge reprimanded him for violating court rules.
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Illinois Supreme Court weighs ‘reenactment’ in toddler murder case

In October 2019, Jessica Logan’s 19-month old son died. Less than two weeks later, police and an investigator from the state’s Department of Child and Family Services met Logan at her Decatur home and gave her a “toddler size mannequin” before telling her to reenact finding the lifeless body of her son in his bed.
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Big city mayors meet with Biden administration to ask for help with migrants

Biden administration officials hosted big city mayors at the White House on Thursday to discuss how to manage a growing number of migrants, one day after those leaders sent a letter asking for more federal help.

Trial Notebook

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Judge seeks help on interference by subsidiary in diversity case

In a diversity case governed by Indiana law, a federal judge in Fort Wayne had to figure out whether a corporate subsidiary can be held liable for tortiously interfering “with the contracts and business relationships of another corporate subsidiary when both subsidiaries are owned by the same corporate parent.”

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