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A Joliet paramedic has been fired due to allegations related to an Aug. 6 ambulance call. Brad Lande, an apparatus operator/paramedic who has been with the fire department for 11 years, was dismissed Aug. 27.

When Bridget Polaski stored naked pictures of herself on her cell phone, she never dreamed they would fall in the hands of cops she fears will slap them all over the Internet. "I'm just really upset about my pictures being all over the Internet, if that's where they end up landing," Polaski, 45, said of the seven or so nude cell phone photos that are now in police custody.

A woman who reportedly played Capture the Flag with the police department for keeps has been arrested.

Two men were arrested after gunfire was heard Tuesday. An officer who heard a shot around 8:50 p.m. saw two young men walking away and another leaving on a bicycle in the 200 block of Clay Street.

The Heritage Corridor Convention and Visitors Bureau added four new members to its board: Julie Johnson (Ottawa), Ben Benson (Joliet), Julie Applegate (Morris) and Mark MacLean (Willow Springs). They will serve a two-year terms.

Between now and November, one of the major topics of discussion will be the city of Yorkville referendum asking voters if they want to raise their taxes to pass $1 million in bonds to put toward bike and hiking trails throughout the city.

Minooka Grade School District has earned the 2010 Bright Star Award, based on criteria from the 2009 school year. This is the first time the district has received the award.

Four exotic birds and four exotic squirrels have been recovered from a home in Berwyn, and four people have been arrested and three of them charged in the thefts of the animals from pet stores in Naperville, Bolingbrook, St. Charles and Batavia, police said.

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No matter who did what on a July night in the parking lot of a Frankfort Square school, Brandon Lauer ended up slashed across the neck and with a stab wound in his belly. On Tuesday, the mother of the teenage girl Lauer accused of taking part in the knife attack that left him clinging to life secured a court order forbidding him from coming around her.

A group of firefighters running across the country to honor those killed Sept. 11, 2001, spent some time in the area Wednesday. The Tour of Duty Run began Aug. 12 at the Santa Monica Pier near Los Angeles with 30 emergency service workers from the United States and Australia heading east.

Furloughs. Layoffs. Long lines at the unemployment office. Shredded salaries. These days, everyone is concerned about the economy. People want to know when things will get better, and they pray things won't get worse. That's why Will County Board member John Anderson, D-Monee, held his second breakfast Wednesday for workers and labor leaders at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 173 hall.

Lewis Lazare: It wasn't a perfect newscast. But there they were Wednesday night — iconic Chicago news anchors Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson reunited and reporting for duty once again as co-anchors of WBBM-Channel 2's 6 p.m. newscast. Looking just a tad anxious, Kurtis and Jacobson were seated at a brand-spanking-new anchor desk put in place just hours before their return to regularly fronting a WBBM newscast. The plan was to make this a straightforward report of the day's news. To a large extent that is what the two delivered.

No matter who did what on a July night in the parking lot of a Frankfort Square school, Brandon Lauer ended up slashed across the neck and with a stab wound in his belly. On Tuesday, the mother of the teenage girl Lauer accused of taking part in the knife attack that left him clinging to life secured a court order forbidding him from coming around her.

A man was dragged from his car and pistol-whipped by three men Tuesday, Joliet police said.

The Steger man who wrecked his car in a crash that killed his girlfriend's 5-year-old son beat the state by getting his driver's license reinstated, but he won't be getting behind the wheel again any time soon.

Furloughs. Layoffs. Long lines at the unemployment office. Shredded salaries. These days, everyone is concerned about the economy. People want to know when things will get better, and they pray things won't get worse. That's why Will County Board member John Anderson, D-Monee, held his second breakfast Wednesday for workers and labor leaders at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 173 hall.