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Man charged in April heroin death Ex-CL resident faces up to 30 years if convicted of drug-induced homicide By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – McHenry County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a former Crystal Lake man on charges of delivering a fatal dose of heroin to a McHenry woman. Herman B. Trigg, 31, now of Palatine, was picked up Saturday on an active arrest warrant
for drug-induced homicide. According to court records, Trigg on April 2 delivered the controlled substance to 30-year-old Melissa A. Carroll, who later ingested the drugs and died at home, authorities said. McHenry County Sheriff’s Office officials said it had been working the case since Carroll’s death. “Since April, the sheriff’s
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office has been working closely with the state’s attorney’s and coroner’s offices to collect enough evidence to be granted an arrest warrant for Trigg,” Deputy Aimee Knop said. Drug-induced homicide is a Class X felony punishable by a minimum of six and up to 30 years in prison. Trigg has another pending felony drug case before McHen-
ry County Judge Michael Feetterer. According to the criminal complaint, in a separate incident April 6, the then-Crystal Lake resident was in possession of heroin and marijuana. Trigg eventually posted $2,500 bond and was released before being charged in the drug-induced homicide case. Trigg is currently being held in McHenry County Jail on $2.5
million bond. His next court date is Tuesday before Feetterer. Trigg’s arrest marks the third time this year authorities have charged individuals with drug-induced homicide for heroin deaths in McHenry County. According to the McHenry County coroner, there were 24 drug overdose deaths this year and 11 were heroin-related.
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Illinois residents feeling pain as battle drags out By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press CHICAGO – As she drops off her 4-year-old son at a Chicago day care to head for a job she loves, Stacy Rutledge wonders how she’ll keep doing it once she loses her state-subsidized child care. A few miles away, 80-year-old Helen King worries what she’ll do if another heat wave hits and her electricity has been shut off because she no longer gets help paying the bill. And just outside St. Louis, Tara Miller watches her daughter – cut off Bruce Rauner from a state-supported program that helps kids Inside with autism learn new ways Rich Miller: Not just to communicate Madigan’s fault – “ d i s a p p e a r back into herthere isn’t a self.” budget yet. Almost a PAGE A2 month after Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats who run the Legislature entered a new fiscal year without agreeing on a state budget, Illinois in many ways still is chugging along. State parks and driver’s license offices remain open, state workers and lawmakers are getting paychecks and Illinois still is making payments on its debt, thanks to mix of court orders and state law. But the budget impasse is hitting a growing number of people, as social service agencies don’t get promised payments, programs are reduced or eliminated and some agencies close their doors. The agencies estimate tens of thousands – most of them low-income working parents, seniors, people with disabilities and immigrants – have become the collateral damage in an ideological battle between the newly elected governor and Democrats
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Alden-Hebron graduates toss their caps into the air after commencement May 17 at Alden-Hebron High School in Hebron.
Summer online courses help students get diplomas By HANNAH PROKOP hprokop@shawmedia.com HEBRON – Out of the 31 seniors in Alden-Hebron High School’s Class of 2015, 26 met the requirements for graduation in four years, Principal Tim Hayunga said. This number does not reflect the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate the Illinois State Board of Education uses, which takes into consideration factors, such as transfer students. Still, having five students not graduate out of a class of 31 is the “lowest it’s been,” at least since Hayunga has been principal at the school for the past four years, he said.
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“This was a high number for us this year,” Hayunga said. However, he said it needs to be taken into consideration that “each year, each kid is different.” Four of those students who did not graduate are taking an online summer course that, if completed, will allow them to meet graduation requirements, Hayunga said. If these students finish their coursework, they also will be added to the graduation rate, Alden-Hebron School District 19 Superintendent Debbie Ehlenburg said in an email. Both Ehlenburg and Hayunga said there are a number of interventions used for students who are at risk of not graduating. Last year was the first time the
school had a freshman seminar class, which teaches incoming freshman about the differences between high school and middle school, and high school expectations, Hayunga said. The school also has increased its partnership with Illinois Virtual School, which allows students to take courses in the summer, Hayunga said. He said students are given a credit recovery option, where students from any grade who failed any class during the school year can make it up via an online class during summer. Whether the online courses are effective depends on the student, Hayunga said. “Some of these students do
We strive to ensure that all students are successful and grow academically, as well as socially while attending Alden-Hebron District 19 schools.”
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very well, and some of these students have struggled with this as an option,” Hayunga said of the Illinois Virtual School. In addition to the seminar class, the school has a mentoring program, offers a nightly homework club and looks at students’ progress every six weeks and intervenes when necessary, Ehlenburg said in the email. The school also analyzes Measures of Academic Progress scores and monitors students’ weekly progress, she said. “We strive to ensure that all students are successful and grow academically, as well as socially while attending Alden-Hebron District 19 schools,” Ehlenburg said in the email.
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