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$250K Bond For Village Clerk Charged In Fatal DUI
Updated 02/15/11 – 2:02 p.m. MARKHAM (CBS) – A Lynwood village clerk allegedly was driving from one bar to another and had a blood alcohol level more than one-and-a-half times the legal limit when he...
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DUI Suspect: Cop Told Me To Drive
CHICAGO (STMW) – An admittedly drunk driver took the witness stand in his own defense Friday, testifying how a Chicago Heights police officer ordered him behind the wheel before he crashed his...
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Driver Convicted DUI Crash That Killed 5-Year-Old
JOLIET, Ill. (STMW) – A Will County jury has found Cecil Conner Jr. guilty of aggravated driving under the influence in the high-speed crash that led to the death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son...
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Treatment Until Trial For Sex Toy-Wielding Gurnee Woman
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (STMW) – The Gurnee woman accused of attacking a police officer with a sex toy was accepted into a chemical dependency treatment program Friday, according to Lake County Assistant...
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Man Charged With DUI For Fatal Hit-And-Run On I-55
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago man has been charged with drunk driving in a hit-and-run that killed another motorist who was waiting for a tow truck while standing on the shoulder of the Stevenson...
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Man Pleads Guilty In Fatal Wilmette Crash
SKOKIE, Ill. (STMW) – A young man from Chicago was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday, one week after pleading guilty in a fatal drunk-driving crash last June in Wilmette. Szymon Zawadzki, 20, of...
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Lockport Cop Gets 6 Years For Fatal DUI
BRIDGEVIEW (STMW) – A southwest suburban police officer was sentenced to six years in prison Monday for a December 2009 DUI crash that killed a 29-year-old man on the Stevenson Expressway. Eddie...
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Wrongful Death Suit Filed In South Side Crash
CHICAGO (STMW)– The family of a man killed in an alleged drunken driving crash in January filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday against the driver accused of causing the crash. The suit claims...
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Bond Set At $250K In DUI Crash That Killed 2, Injured 9
CHICAGO (STMW) — A woman had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal driving limit when she crashed her sport-utility vehicle head-on into a car early Saturday on the West Side — killing two...
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Man Charged With DUI In Fatal Hit-And-Run
Updated 07/07/11 – 6:10 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – A West Pullman man has been charged with drunk driving in a hit-and-run that killed a 52-year-old woman in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Tuesday....
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No Bond For South Loop DUI Suspect Shot By Police
CHICAGO (STMW) – A suspected drunken driver who was shot by police early Friday after fleeing officers who found him passed out with a gun in a Jeep on a South Loop street has been charged. Tyshaun...
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Woman Accused Of Drinking Six Vodkas Before Driving Into Bicyclist
CHICAGO (STMW) – A Joliet woman was charged with aggravated DUI after she hit a barrier and struck a bicyclist with her car on the Near West Side after allegedly downing six vodka drinks in two hours,...
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Driver Crashes Car, Jumps Into Other Car Through Window
CHICAGO (STMW) – A speeding motorist high on marijuana and angel dust dived head-first into a shocked stranger’s car through the driver’s side window, then bizarrely yelled to chasing cops that “the...
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Man Pleads Guilty To DUI In Crash That Killed Girlfriend
JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) – A Michigan man pleaded guilty to drunk driving on Monday in a crash that killed his girlfriend at Balmoral Park Racetrack last April. Angus Lake, 42, was set to go on trial on...
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Defense Attorney: Cop Wasn’t Drunk When He Struck & Killed Teen
CHICAGO (STMW) – An off-duty Chicago Police officer charged in a deadly drunken driving accident wasn’t intoxicated and was only trying to avoid the 13-year-old boy riding his bike on the wrong side of...
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Driver Charged With DUI In Crash With Fire Engine
CHICAGO (CBS) – An 18-year-old man was charged with felony drunk driving for a crash involving a Chicago Fire Department fire engine earlier this week in the West Pullman neighborhood, in which nine...
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Driver Charged For Crash That Killed A Man, Injured State Trooper
Updated 02/12/12 – 2:54 p.m. ADDISON, Ill. (STMW) – Officials filed charges against a motorist accused of killing a man and hurting an Illinois State Police trooper Saturday in a wreck on the...
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$1M Bond In DUI Crash That Killed Passenger, Hurt Trooper
WHEATON, Ill. (STMW) – A Chicago man charged with DUI after allegedly crashing into a parked State Police car, killing a civilian keeping warm inside after a crash, was ordered held on $1 million...
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$400K Bond For DUI Driver In Fatal Crash With Bus, Beer Truck
CHICAGO (STMW) – Bond was set at $400,000 on Wednesday for a Blue Island man charged with DUI in a fatal chain-reaction crash with a CTA bus and a beer truck Monday afternoon. Walter Thompson, 30,...
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Drunk Driver Pleads Guilty Again, 13 Years After Girl’s Death
JOLIET, Ill. (STMW) – The man responsible for killing a 10-year-old girl in a 1999 drunken-driving crash admitted Monday he drove under the influence again in 2010. Glen R. Higginbotham, 33, of...
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