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New charges for man police shot Count of attempted murder added; officer ID’d in filing By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The man who was shot by police and accused of wielding a knife at an officer now is facing a criminal charge of attempted murder of a police officer. Joseph A. Laudicina, 29, was charged last week with home and ve-
hicular invasion and felony domestic battery after a series of events that eventually put him in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound. He remains in serious condition at Centegra Hospital – Woodstock, a spokeswoman for the health system said. There is an active warrant for his arrest. Crystal Lake authorities on
Monday announced the additional charges, which also include residential burglary. The attempted murder charge carries a possible sentencing range of 20 to 80 years in prison and is enhanced because the alleged victim is a po- Joseph A. lice officer. Laudicina Authorities have said Laudicina, armed with a knife, charged at officer Kris Krol, who was identified in the criminal complaint. Krol was uninjured but was taken to the hospital as a precaution. He has
since been placed on paid leave. Crystal Lake police on June 22 were responding to an “unwanted subject” in the home in the 800 block of Boxwood Drive, where the shooting occurred. Few details about the shooting have been publicly released. The investigation is being handled by the Illinois State Police because an officer was involved. Charging decisions are made by the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office. A few hours before Laudicina was shot, police responded to an address in the 300 block of Terra Cotta Avenue, or Route 176, for an alleged
domestic battery. In that incident, Laudicina is accused of punching his mother several times, and strangling her. He was charged by Crystal Lake police in that incident. Laudicina had a 2013 felony domestic battery case pending in McHenry County when he was charged with the latest crimes. In the earlier incident, he is accused of pushing his girlfriend to the ground and strangling her, according to the criminal complaint. Laudicina’s last known address is in Addison, but court documents indicate he lived in Crystal Lake and Marengo in the past.
What happens if there’s no deal?
Shift seen in faith landscape
Rauner, AG disagree on whether Ill. can cut checks with no budget By SARA BURNETT and JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press
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Father Juan Arciniegas (left) and Deacon Mike Boyce lead a Mass on June 19 at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Cary. A national study found that 35 percent of adult millennials said they had no religion, up 10 percentage points since 2007, though a majority – 56 percent – still identified as Christians.
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aving been ordained as a pastor just three years ago, Paul Cannon said he walked into a religious landscape much different than the one his older cohorts likely experienced. “It’s kind of a challenging time,” said 31-year-old Cannon, pastor at Bethany Lutheran Church in Crystal Lake. “I think it’s a time for the church to reflect deeply about who we are in this culture and who we are in light of where the people are at.” In the United States, there has been a definite shift in where people are with regard to religion, according to recently released data from the Pew Research Center. In McHenry County, religious leaders are noticing a shift, noting changes in the number of active churchgoers, generational gaps and higher levels of diversity. The Christian share of the nation’s population has dropped from 78.4 percent to 70.6 percent
What religion do you consider yourself? Vote online at NWHerald.com. been a decline in parish numbers.
No religion for the young
Arciniegas (right) and Boyce (back) meet with church members after Mass on June 19 at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. from 2007 to 2014, while the portion of Americans who consider themselves “unaffiliated” has climbed from 16.1 percent to 22.8 percent in the same time frame. The shrinking population of Christians has largely been driven by declines among Cath-
olics and Protestants, the Pew study said. Both have seen dips of roughly 3 percentage points in the past seven years. At the Catholic Church of Holy Apostles in McHenry, the Rev. Paul White, ordained in 1989, said there “absolutely” has
“We lost quite a few people in the first decade of this millennium,” White said, adding the sharpest decline recently has been among the millennial population. With about 1,800 millennial-aged (roughly 18 to mid-30s) people on the books at Holy Apostles, White estimated a mere 400 are actively engaged. In general, he added there’s much less engagement from families than in years past. He attributed the shift to cultural changes, suggesting the younger generation has tended to shy away from organized institutions in comparison to older generations.
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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois’ Republican governor and the state’s largest employee union moved Monday to avoid a partial government shutdown, with the union saying members will continue to show up for work even if the state begins operating without a budget and the governor pledging to do what he can to ensure they don’t miss a paycheck. But a new fight appeared to be taking shape between Gov. Bruce Rauner – typically seen as an enemy of organized labor – and Gov. Bruce t h e D e m o c r a t i c Rauner attorney general, Lisa Madigan, who said workers can’t be paid until the governor and Democrats who run the Legislature pass a new budget. Lisa Madigan The back-andforth is the latest in a months-long fight between Rauner and majority Democrats over how to resolve Illinois’ massive financial problems and – more recently – who will take the blame if state government begins grinding to a halt and critical services are cut off. The two sides have been deadlocked over how to eliminate a deficit that’s the largest of any state in the U.S. Illinois already is billions behind in paying its bills and has the nation’s worst-funded state pensions, with a more than $100 billion shortfall. Without a new budget in place by the Wednesday start of the new fiscal year, about 65,000 employees face the prospect of missing paychecks starting in mid-July. That raised fears workers would stay home and some government operations would cease. Rauner worked to alleviate those concerns, saying in a memo sent to state workers and provided to The Associated Press that “State employees will be paid for their work.”
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