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Police say wife stabbed husband Investigation shows Genoa couple had been fighting, alcohol was involved By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com GENOA – After Kendra Burno stabbed her husband, Jene, in their Genoa home, she went to a nearby house and called 911, police said Friday. Kendra Burno, 43, made the call at 5:23 p.m. Thursday, telling police her husband of 27 years had been
stabbed at their home at 31223 Madison St. near Genoa. Police secured the scene and paramedics from the Genoa-Kingston Fire Department found Jene Burno, 44, inside the house. Jene Burno was stabbed once in the chest and was pronounced dead at 5:41 p.m. Thursday, DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott said Friday. An autopsy conducted Friday
by DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller’s office confirmed that the death was caused by the stab wound, Scott said. There have been no charges filed against Kendra Burno. Scott declined to say whether police considered her actions to be self-defense. “She has been fully cooperative with us so far,” he said. “... She was taken in for interviewing [Thursday]
night and has been released.” Police had been called to the residence to investigate domestic issues in the past, Scott said. Alcohol was a factor in at least one of them, in 2010, court records show, and it appears to have been again, Scott said. Burno pleaded guilty in 2010 to domestic battery after an incident in which he was drunk and put his son in a headlock, and later hit his broth-
er in the mouth and in the arm with a key, according to court documents. He was sentenced to community service and underwent an alcohol evaluation. Kendra Burno requested an order of protection against Jene Burno after that incident. The order forbade Jene Burno from consuming alcohol
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Hiawatha senior Casey Martinez wipes tears from her eyes after hugging her mother, Monica Martinez (left), after being crowned prom queen May 9 at the Hiawatha High School prom at Faranda’s Banquet Center in DeKalb. Martinez and her family lived in Fairdale and survived the April 9 tornado.
Fairdale teenagers enjoy prom – with help from the community By ADAM POULISSE apoulisse@shawmedia.com
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AIRDALE – Casey Martinez was looking for one thing in particular when she returned to her home on Keith Street in Fairdale last month after being forced to stay away for two days. “The first thing I ran to check on was my prom dress,” Martinez, a senior at Hiawatha High School, said, “and it ended up having some rips in it.” Before the EF4 tornado struck the community of about 150 on April 9, Martinez’s concerns were normal ones for a high school senior on the cusp of adulthood
– what to wear to prom, what to serve at her graduation party, where to attend college. Afterward, her attention shifted to more serious issues, such as what will happen to the family home that’s now leaning on an angle to its foundation. With help from local businesses, Hiawatha High School, and family members of Kirkland Fire Department, among other individuals and organizations, Martinez had her dress mended, and enjoyed a hectic morning May 9 that involved a mani-pedi and a hairstyle to get ready for the big night. Her date and longtime buddy Kyle Hines chivalrously paid for both the corsage and boutonniere.
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“I get a break from everything going on in Fairdale,” Martinez said while she enjoyed a complimentary pedicure at Dolce Vita Salon and Day Spa in DeKalb, 2525 Bethany Road. “I get a day to not have to think about any of that stuff and just think about stuff and hang out with my friends.” To top it all off, she was named
prom queen at Faranda’s in DeKalb. She shared a royal dance with prom king Trey Snow to the One Direction song “Night Changes,” or as Martinez called it, “the best song ever.” “It gets better. It’s not downhill from here, because that’s how it feels with everything going on,” Martinez said after the big night. “Winning prom queen is unbelievable. I did not think I was going to get it. I’m still in shock.” Martinez was one of the Fairdale seniors who benefitted from the generosity of community donations and goodwill that made their special night shine even
BOSTON – After he’d slouched through his trial for months with a bored look on his face, the defendant was ordered to rise. For close to half an hour, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was on his feet, fidgeting as he listened to the reading of a 24-page worksheet in which a jury dismantled, piece by piece, any hope he had of mercy. By page 21, his fate was clear: death by injection. In the nation’s most closely watched terrorism trial since What’s next the Oklahoma City bombing, U.S. District the 21-year-old Judge George Tsarnaev was senO’Toole Jr. will tenced to death formally imFriday by a federal jury that swept pose the senaside arguments tence at a later he was just a “kid” date during who fell under the a hearing in influence of his which bombing f a n a t i c a l o l d e r victims and Tsarnaev brother. The decision – himself will which came more be given the than two years opportunity to after the April speak. 15, 2013, bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260 – brought relief and grim satisfaction to many in Boston. “We can breathe again,” said Karen Brassard, who suffered shrapnel wounds to her legs. The death sentence sets the stage for what could be the nation’s first execution of a terrorist in the post-9/11 era, although the case is likely to go through years of appeals. In the meantime, Tsarnaev will probably be sent to death row at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death in 2001. A somber-looking Tsarnaev stood with his hands folded, his
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