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32 Years For Last Derrion Albert Killer
UPDATED 08/29/11 5:07 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — The last of five killers of Fenger High School honor student Derrion Albert was sentenced to 32 years in prison on Monday. Lapoleon Colbert, 20, asked for...
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Blagojevich Sentencing Could Face Delays
CHICAGO (STMW) - Rod Blagojevich may have to wait for his day of reckoning. As it now stands, the former governor’s scheduled sentencing date next month directly conflicts with a trial in a related...
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Feds: Rod Blagojevich Could Get 30 Years To Life In Prison
UPDATED 09/15/11 10:14 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Prosecutors are estimating that convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich could get 30 years to life in prison. As CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports, such...
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Downers Grove Man Gets 100 Years For Killing Wife, Unborn Child
WHEATON, Ill. (CBS) — A Downers Grove man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for stabbing his wife and their unborn child to death last year. Eric Gilford, 36, was sentenced by DuPage County...
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Blagojevich Goes To Facebook To Garner Support Before Sentencing
Updated 10/18/11 – 3:59 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Is Facebook the new ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ card? Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s family is hoping it will help them keep the former governor from getting the...
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Fundraiser Rezko Asks To Be Sentenced To Time Served
Updated 11/04/2011 at 3:00 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko was convicted on corruption charges more than three years ago, but still hasn’t been sentenced and has been in...
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Prosecutors Digging Into Blagojevich’s Finances
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are digging for data about convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s potential pension income in advance of his sentencing on corruption charges, even though...
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Man Gets 120 Years For Murder Of U Of C Ph.D. Student
CHICAGO (CBS) — A young man has been sentenced to 120 years in prison for the murder of a University of Chicago Ph.D. Student four years ago. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bob Conway reports, Demetrius Warren,...
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Political Fundraiser Rezko Gets 10 1/2 Years
UPDATED 11/22/11 9:34 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a top adviser and fundraiser for deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has been sentenced to 10 1/2 in prison, a full three years after he was...
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Ex-Prosecutor: Rezko’s Sentence A Bad Sign For Blagojevich
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 10 1/2-year sentence for political fundraiser Tony Rezko is not a good sign for deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a former federal prosecutor. As WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty...
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Topinka: 15 To 20 Years Is Appropriate For Blagojevich
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) — Illinois State Comptroller Judy Barr Topinka, who ran unsuccessfully against Rod Blagojevich for governor in 2006, now says he deserves the 15 to 20-year sentence prosecutors...
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Judge In Blagojevich Case Will Impose Sentence Wednesday
CHICAGO (CBS) — Even though prosecutors and defense lawyers said Friday they can make their arguments in just one day and won’t need a second day next week for convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s...
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Observer: Blagojevich Will Never Say ‘I’m Sorry’
CHICAGO (CBS) — A trial observer says the only thing deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich could say to help his cause during his sentencing hearing this week is, “I’m sorry.” But as WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody...
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BGA: Expect A Lengthy Sentence For Blagojevich
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Better Government Association thinks federal prosecutors will win the hefty sentence they are seeking for deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich. As WBBM Newsradio’s Alex Degman reports, Bob...
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Blagojevich Jurors Feel Need To See Final Chapter Of Justice Served
CHICAGO (CBS) — It took two juries to find Rod Blagojevich guilty of 18 federal corruption charges, and the men and women who agonized over those decisions weren’t required to be in court today for the...
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Blagojevich: ‘I Am Unbelievably Sorry’
UPDATED 12/07/11 11:33 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — For the first time since he was arrested three years ago, deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thoroughly apologetic and admitted to making “terrible mistakes,”...
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Walter’s Perspective: Let Us Hear All The Blago Tapes
Like many people right now, I’m guessing about years in prison for Rod Blagojevich. But what I know for sure is that there’s more to the Blago story we’re being told; more about those bugs on his...
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Former Blago Attorney: Tapes Would’ve Changed Outcome
CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Rod Blagojevich attorney Sam Adam Jr. still maintains that if all the tapes of wiretapped conversations had been played at trial, the outcome would have been different. Adam, who...
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Ultimate Fighter Ordered To Pay $23,800 For Destroying Apartment
WHEATON, Ill. (CBS) — An ultimate fighter convicted of a rampage in an apartment in Warrenville was handed a pricey repair bill in court. As WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, Nathan Patrick, 34,...
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Blagojevich’s Former Top Aide Seeking Probation At Sentencing
CHICAGO (CBS) – A day after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich reports to prison to begin his 14-year sentence on corruption charges next week, his former chief of staff will be in front of a federal judge,...
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