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CL subdivision wants help with maintenance By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
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Deputy Khalia Satkiewicz (right), her husband, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Robert Satkiewicz, and daughter, Sierra, 13, leave the McHenry County Government Center on Thursday in Woodstock after Scott Peters was sentenced to 135 years in prison. By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com
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WOODSTOCK – The Holiday Hills shooter convicted of ambushing sheriff’s deputies who responded to his home in the middle of the night will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Scott B. Peters, 52, was sentenced
Thursday to 135 years in prison. He must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence, dropping his prison term to a minimum of 114 years. A jury found Peters guilty on 15 felonies, including six for attempted murder of a police officer – two for each officer at whom he shot. According to testimony from the trial
in April, Peters shouted: “I’m a U.S. Army paratrooper. I hope you’re ready to die today,” and “Airborne!” before firing more than a dozen rounds through his front door at McHenry County sheriff’s deputies. The deputies were responding to a well-being check on Peters’ wife Oct. 16, 2014.
CRYSTAL LAKE – William Halter has been looking for a solution to his subdivision’s roads for seven years now. “It’s been very painful,” he said. “I do a lot of work, and then it takes months and months and months to get the city to even consider looking at it.” The Wyndmuir subdivision, where Halter has lived for the past decade and serves as the homeowners association’s president, is a handful of courts and culs-de-sacs jutting off Wyndmuir Drive, which is north of Route 176 off Terra Cotta Road. While Wyndmuir Drive is owned and maintained by the city of Crystal Lake, those little side streets aren’t. Wyndmuir is one of 31 subdivisions in the city to have privately owned roads that have to be maintained by the residents or, by proxy, their homeowners association. They were built as private roads when the subdivisions were built, an option pursued by developers so they could be more creative with their layouts and create bigger lots than otherwise would be possible, Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley said. To help cover the maintenance costs, Halter turned
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GOP lawmakers slam health care ruling By KELLI KENNEDY The Associated Press MIAMI – Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling validating federal health insurance subsidies for nearly 6.4 million Americans had consumers breathing a sigh of relief that they would be able to afford their policies, but the reaction was markedly different from governors and lawmakers in states that have fought against the Affordable Care Act. Many of them strengthened their calls to repeal the act, setting the tone for what
Inside Q Residents in Illinois to keep insurance subsidies after ruling. PAGE B3
will likely be a common GOP refrain during next year’s presidential campaign. “The Supreme Court abandoned the Constitution to resuscitate a failing health care law,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said in a statement. “Today’s action underscores why it is now more important than ever to ensure
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we elect a president who will repeal Obamacare and enact real health care reforms.” Texas, like many of the 34 Republican-led states relying on the exchange, had no backup plan if the court had struck down the subsidies. Abbott had no interest in setting up a state exchange for the 832,000 Texans relying on the federal tax credits that lowered their monthly premiums. He and other GOP governors said it would have been up to the president and Congress to fix it. Florida would have been ground zero for the aftermath,
with more than 1.3 million people relying on the federal subsidies. Setting up a state exchange was a political nonstarter. Republican Gov. Rick Scott and House Republicans strongly opposed a Senate bill that would have created one, as well as expand Medicaid. Scott and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, both reaffirmed their commitment to repealing the law Thursday. “It’s a bad law,” Scott told reporters. “It’s made promises after promises.”
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Jennifer Greene, 58, holds her grandson while baby-sitting Monday at her daughter’s home in Delray Beach, Fla. Greene 58, had feared she would have to go without insurance if she lost her $547-a-month tax credit, but a Supreme Court ruling Thursday validated federal health insurance subsidies for nearly 6.4 million Americans.
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