Ill. police get $70k grant for merger

By Joe O’Donnell Hinsdale-Clarendon Patch HINSDALE-CLARENDON, Ill. — Hinsdale Village President Tom Cauley announced Tuesday that the villages of Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills have received a $70,000 grant from the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) to assist the municipalities with the preliminary steps of merging their police departments. Cauley…

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Ill. mayor suspends embattled police chief

St. Joseph News-Press The mayor of North Chicago announced Tuesday he has placed on paid administrative leave Chief of Police Michael Newsome, and hired a retired police officer to lead an investigation into six cases of alleged excessive use of force by police over the past 18 months. "I do…

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Cyber attack on Ill. water utility gains local attention

OTTUMWA — A “malfunction” under investigation at an Illinois water works plant may have been sabotage by computer hackers. Iowa plant managers are starting to take notice. “We take threats very seriously,” said Marty Braster, environmental management specialist for Rathbun Regional Water Association. The moment he received word of the…

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Ill. cop killer, denied parole, dies in prison

By PoliceOne Staff CHICAGO — A former Chicago inmate who killed two police officers in a bank robbery died in prison, the Chicago Tribune reported. Henry Michael Gargano, 79, died October 13 in a North Carolina federal medical correctional center, the Federal Bureau of Prisons stated in a notice sent…

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