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Genoa-Kingston.. 48 Marengo ............... 3 Rich.-Burton ......... 0 Harvard ................21 Ottawa Marq. ..... 47 Alden-Hebron ........7 CL Central ........... 28 Johnsburg ............. 0
Huntley ..................7 CL South.............. 27 Dundee-Crown ......7 Jacobs ................. 34 Prairie Ridge....... 56 McHenry ............. 20
Grayslake North.. 55 Woodstock N...... 37 Grayslake Cent... 20 Woodstock ......... 30
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McHenry dad: Police unjustly beat 17-year-old Teen receiving medical treatment By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com McHENRY – A McHenry family is alleging that three McHenry County Sheriff’s officers grabbed their underage son by the hair and bashed his head against the pavement during an incident along River Road last weekend. Police stopped the 17-year-old boy and his girlfriend while they were walking home along River Road, near Route 176, in McHenry around 12:30 a.m. Oct. 19, said Jerry Connor, a personal injury attorney at Albert R. Pino’s Law Offices who is
representing the family. An officer cited the boy in connection with underage drinking and then called for backup, Connor said. The officer and two others proceeded to beat the 140-pound boy, who suffered a skull fracture, concussion, nasal bone fracture and a detached retina, Connor and the boy’s father said. The boy currently is receiving medical treatment and might be suffering from permanent brain damage, the family said. Moments before the alleged beating, the boy was
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A McHenry family is alleging three McHenry County Sheriff’s officers grabbed their underage son by the hair and bashed his head against the pavement during an incident along River Road last weekend.
Deal closer in Pyle child sex abuse case Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Karen Guthrie (center) of Crystal Lake participates in an informational picket line Tuesday outside of Cary-Grove High School. District 155 teachers still are working without a contract and frustration is starting to build after negotiations were stalled because of the unavailability of a federal mediator during the government shutdown.
Districts struggle to determine fair teacher pay By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Charles McBarron is certain the uncertainty at the state level when it comes to funding education and pensions results in a near certainty – difficult negotiations between teachers unions and school boards. McBarron, spokesman for the Illinois Education Association, said that while he does not know the details of the ongoing negoti-
ations between Community High School District 155 and its teachers union, contract negotiations around the state have become more difficult as the state wavers on funding schools and addressing pension issues. Teachers in District 155 have been working without a contract since July 1. “Illinois is at or near the bottom of funding public education and that lack of support certainly makes contract negotiations far
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more difficult,” McBarron said. “But the key thing in all negotiations are teaching and learning conditions. And teaching conditions are the students’ learning conditions, so they go hand in hand.” McBarron said because teacher contracts are negotiated at the local level, many can be significantly different from others and still fair depending on that area’s condition.
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MARIAN CENTRAL WINS REGIONAL All week Marian Central soccer coach Jim Colvin had his team run three-minute drills in which it was down one goal and needed to score before time expired. So it was fitting that the Hurricanes found themselves in that situation during Friday’s Class 2A Marian Central Regional final against Woodstock North. Marian rallied to beat Woodstock North, 4-3. For more, see page C1.
Dennis Rasmussen (from left), Mary Fetzner and Susan Rasmussen H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com
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By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com ROCKFORD – Federal attorneys are inching closer to a plea agreement for a former McHenry County Sheriff’s deputy accused of child sex abuse and child pornography. Gregory M. Pyle, 38, i s a w a i t i n g Gregory trial in fed- M. Pyle eral court in Rockford on charges that he traveled across state lines to engage in a sexual act with a minor and used a minor to engage in sexual conduct to produce child pornography.
Pyle also was charged by state authorities in January 2012 with 10 counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. He posted bond in McHenry County but was rearrested that August on a federal indictment. He’s since been held in federal custody without bail in Boone County Jail. According to the federal complaint, the alleged victim is a boy related to Pyle. Authorities said the boy told the FBI that Pyle had sexually abused him since he was about 8 years old and that most of the abuse occurred in Pyle’s Crystal Lake home. He also allegedly abused the
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