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Woman admits to probation violation Pimped wife could get prison sentence By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com
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Dylan Plug (left) watches his brother, Drew, receive a bandage Friday after getting a traditional flu shot from Pediatric Care P.C. nurse Maribeth Barkocy in Barrington.
Keeping illness at bay Health officials emphasize importance of immunizations By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Debra Quackenbush knows it only takes one person to trigger another 2004 or 2011. Quackenbush, spokeswoman for the McHenry County Department of Health, said she can still remember the chaos in those two years after a pertussis epidemic – better known as whooping cough – broke out, quickly spreading from high school students to younger children. “It seems those outbreaks come back every six or seven years,” Quackenbush said. “It just proves
the importance of vaccinations to keep illnesses at bay.” Whether for religious reasons or fears stemming from scientifically unsupported claims about the dangers of immunizations, Quackenbush said some people opt to skip vaccinations. The Centers for Disease Control has reported a record number of measles cases this year with 592 through August. Measles is one of the most immunized diseases with 91.9 percent of children receiving it nationally compared to 83 percent of children in McHenry County. Some immunizations that protect against
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Pediatrician Dr. John Beckerman speaks with a family at Pediatric Care P.C., in Barrington.
WOODSTOCK – A woman, once pimped by her husband and convicted of lying to police during a 2011 fatal shooting, will be resentenced after she admitted Friday to violating her probation. Kimberly A. Smith, 32, could be sentenced to between one to three years in prison Kimberly A. on disorderly conduct Smith charges. McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather in June 2013 gave Smith two years of probation, but Smith picked up new criminal charges in Michigan. Prosecutors said she filed a false police report on May 28, 2011, the night 48-year-old Kurt Milliman was shot and killed. Her husband, Timothy S. Smith, 30, was convicted of murdering 48-year-old Milliman, who responded to an online ad for sex with Kimberly Smith. Timothy Smith is serving a 50year sentence. According to her testimony at trial, Kimberly Smith refused to have sex with Milliman and tried to stop the encounter. A skirmish ensued and Timothy Smith shot Milliman in the back. Kimberly Smith initially told police Milliman was an intruder who broke into the couple’s Woodstock home. Since being placed on probation, Kimberly Smith picked up several charges – DUI, resisting a peace officer, driving on a suspended license and unlawful use of a credit card – in Marquette, Michigan. A condition of her probation also was not to leave the state without permission from her probation officer. She will be sentenced Nov. 12.
GOP eyes voter rolls in midst of close Illinois campaign The Associated Press CHICAGO – In a sign of how close the contest for control of President Barack Obama’s home state is expected to be, Illinois Republicans are mounting what they call an unprecedented and costly
campaign to have ineligible people purged from voter lists and recruit their own election judges before November. With their sights on unseating a Democratic governor and winning back several congressional seats, Republicans have allocated $1 million in Cook County alone – from
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fundraising and the Republican Governors Association – to examine voter rolls and recruit 5,000 GOP election judges to watch over polling places in Democrat-heavy Chicago. In two counties east of St. Louis, the party is examining obituaries to ensure the
deceased are removed from the rolls and tracking down death certificates. They’re looking for addresses where utility service has been cut off to determine if registered voters have moved. And they’re checking to see whether people are voting from addresses for vacant lots or commercial
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