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POLICE INVESTIGATE AFTER 53-YEAR-OLD MAN FOUND DEAD SUNDAY
Proposed meeting for Rauner, lawmakers may lead to budget By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
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Woodstock police stand at a crime scene Monday morning at 680 Leah Lane in Woodstock. Officials are investigating the death of a man who they said was found in an apartment Sunday. When officers arrived, they found a male subject who had died under “less than natural” circumstances, a news release stated.
Man in custody after Woodstock stabbing death Former Harvard man facing charges of murder, theft, aggravated battery By CHELSEA McDOUGALL and KATIE DAHLSTROM editorial@nwherald.com WOODSTOCK – A 26-year-old Woodstock man is in custody in connection with the stabbing death of a Woodstock man. Branden M. Napolitan, who lives at 680 Leah Lane, Apt 1A, in Woodstock, is jailed in Madison, Wisconsin, without bond, officials in Dane County confirmed. The victim has been identified as Daryl K. Fox, 53, Branden M. according to a news Napolitan release from the McHenry County Coroner’s Office. An autopsy showed Fox died from multiple injuries, including blunt-force injuries to his neck and a “sharp injury” to his lung. According to a criminal complaint charging Napolitan with first-degree murder, he allegedly stabbed Fox in the upper torso and took the victim’s Volkswagen
Police cordoned off a red Dodge pickup truck sitting in the parking lot adjacent to 680 Leah Lane as they continued to investigate the death of a man who officials said was found in an apartment Sunday. Passat. Napolitan, formerly of Harvard, also is charged with theft and aggravated battery. Two separate complaints were filed Monday in McHenry County stemming from the Sunday incident. McHenry County Coroner Anne Majewski was not available for further comment. Police responded about 12:30 p.m. Sunday to the Prairie View Apartment Community after an acquaintance called in asking for
a well-being check, according to a news release from Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen. Fox and Napolitan were roommates and shared an apartment at the complex, Deputy Chief John Lieb said. When police arrived, they found Fox dead. The discovery prompted an investigation by Woodstock police, the McHenry County Major
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McHenry County lawmakers are optimistic a meeting between Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislative leaders will help lead to an end to the four-month state budget impasse. But they’re not optimistic about a state budget being approved before January – six months into the 2016 budget year that began July 1. Lawmakers reacted positively to news of a potential Nov. 18 meeting between the Republican governor, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, who hold Democratic House and Senate supermajorities. But even a fruitful meeting that leads to a bridging of the gap that divides them most likely will not lead to a budget until the spring session, state Rep. Barbara Wheeler said. “There’s the budget, and then there is [lining up] the votes,” Wheeler said. “I don’t think Rep. Barbara we’re going to see it Wheeler before Jan. 1.” Legislative Democrats and Rauner have been at loggerheads since lawmakers in May approved a budget that spent $4 billion more than the $33 billion the state was expected to collect. Rauner vetoed the bill on constitutional grounds, citing the long-ignored balanced budget provision in the state constitution, but approved the education portion to ensure public schools received their funding. Rauner, who was elected last year on a pledge to revitalize Illinois and fix its deep budget woes, wants to link Democratic calls for higher taxes to what he calls needed reforms, such as a twoyear freeze on local property taxes, workers’ compensation laws, and constitutional amendments imposing term limits and changing how Illinois draws its legislative boundaries after each U.S. census. Even though the state has no budget, it still is paying about 90
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U.N. agency links hot dogs, other processed meat to cancer By ANGELA CHARLTON The Associated Press PARIS – Bacon, hot dogs and cold cuts are under fire: The World Health Organization threw its global weight behind years of experts’ warnings and declared Monday processed meats raise the risk of colon and stomach cancer and red meat probably is harmful, too. Meat producers are angry, vegetarians are feeling vindicated, and cancer experts are
welcoming the most comprehensive pronouncement yet on the relation between our modern meat-eating lifestyles and cancer. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, analyzed decades of research and for the first time put processed meats in the same danger category as smoking or asbestos. That doesn’t mean salami is as bad as cigarettes, only that there’s a confirmed link to cancer. And even then, the risk is
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small. The results aren’t that shocking in the U.S., where many parents fret over chemicals in cured meats and the American Cancer Society has long cautioned against eating
too much steak and deli. But the U.N. agency’s findings could shake up public health attitudes elsewhere, such as European countries where sausages are savored and smoked ham is a national delicacy. And they could hurt the American meat industry, which is arguing vigorously against linking their products with cancer, contending the disease involves a number of lifestyle and environmental factors.
While U.S. rates of colon cancer have been declining, it is the No. 2 cancer for women worldwide and No. 3 for men, according to the WHO. A group of 22 scientists from the IARC evaluated more than 800 studies from several continents about meat and cancer. The studies looked at more than a dozen types of cancer in populations with diverse diets during the past 20 years. Based on that analysis, the IARC classified processed meat as “carcinogenic to hu-
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mans,” noting links in particular to colon cancer. It said red meat contains some important nutrients, but still labeled it “probably carcinogenic,” with links to colon, prostate and pancreatic cancers. The agency made no specific dietary recommendations and said it did not have enough data to define how much processed meat is too dangerous. But it said the risk rises with the amount consumed.
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