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HEAT works to curb heroin use in county By JIM DALLKE jdallke@shawmedia.com To combat McHenry County’s ongoing heroin problem, the sheriff’s department and other agencies are working together to curb the drug’s use in the county. The Heroin Education/ Enforcement Action Task Force, or HEAT, was started in March, and earlier this month the task force met to discuss its progress. McHenry County Undersheriff Andrew Zinke said that since the task force’s creation, investigators have collected numerous tips and heroin-related information. Since last summer, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Police Narcotics Division and Intelligence Led Policing Unit have launched 34 separate heroin investigations, netting 25 arrests and the seizure of more than 75 grams of heroin, Zinke said.
Holiday means more than summer’s end By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
The Pullman Strike resulted in violence, arrests and – some argue – Labor Day. The bill designating the first Monday of September as Labor Day landed on President Grover Cleveland’s desk six days after federal troops broke the Pullman strike. The strike started when Pullman Palace Car Co. workers walked out on May 11, 1894, after negotiations over declining wages and stagnant rents for company-owned row houses fell apart. The American Railway Union joined in, refusing to work trains that carried Pullman cars. The move effectively paralyzed railroad traffic nationwide. With mail disrupted and reports of violence coming in, Cleveland declared the strike a federal crime and ordered federal troops to intervene. While riots erupted and two men were killed when U.S. deputy marshals fired on protesters, federal troops were able to stamp out the strike. Its leaders were arrested, and Pullman employees signed a pledge promising not to unionize. In the wake of such a deeply divisive event, the Labor Day bill was passed unanimously by both chambers of Congress and signed into law, codifying a holiday that had been gaining traction since September 1892 when union workers in New York City took an unpaid day off and rallied around Union Square. Today, Labor Day is less about worker rights and more about the end of summer.
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration geared up for the biggest foreign policy vote since the Iraq war by arguing Sunday that new physical evidence shows the Syrian government used sarin gas in a deadly August attack. With its credibility on the line, the United States must respond, the country’s top diplomat said. Members of Congress, deadlocked on just about everything these days and still on summer break expressed sharply divergent opinions about whether to give President Barack Obama the go-ahead he requested to retaliate with military force against the Assad regime, and what turning down the commander in chief could mean for America’s reputation. Presenting Obama’s case
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for military action, Secretary of State John Kerry gave a series of interviews on Sunday news shows outlining the latest information the administration has received about the Aug. 21 attack in the Damascus suburbs that the U.S. says killed 1,429 civilians, including more than 400 children. He said samples collected by first responders added to the growing body of proof that Syria’s government launched a chemical weapons attack. “Samples of hair and blood have been tested and they have reported positive
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Singer/songwriter Bryan White will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Performing Arts Center at Woodstock North High School, 3000 Raffel Road, Woodstock. The Grammy award-winning artist will perform live to benefit District 200’s music program. Tickets, at $20, are available at www. attendstar.com.
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Zinke also said there are “numerous ongoing investigations” that will result in several upcoming heroin-related arrests. “Heroin has no boundaries,” he said. “It crosses all cultures, classes and dynamics, from the housewife to the high school kid.” McHenry County’s heroin problem is driven by Chicago’s gang-related drug trade, and it has been an increasing problem the past three years, Zinke said. There were 52 heroin deaths in McHenry County
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Andrew Zinke, McHenry County Undersheriff, said there are “numerous ongoing investigations” that will result in heroin-related arrests.
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