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This photo from video provided by WLS-TV in Chicago shows fire and ambulance crews on the runway at Midway Airport after reports of a medical emergency that led to the quarantine of a Delta airplane Thursday, April 26, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/WLS-TV)

‘Bug bites’ lead to Delta flight being quarantined

Andy Grimm, Deanese Williams-Harris Chicago Tribune

Last updated Friday, April 27, 2012 - 10:15am

CHICAGO — A Minnesota woman who caused a health scare aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Detroit — resulting in the plane being kept on the tarmac at Midway Airport for three hours — says it was all a misunderstanding over bug bites.

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ACLU defends girls for joking on Facebook about which classmates to kill

Deanese Williams-Harris Chicago Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 4:20pm

CHICAGO -- The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting the expulsion of three eighth-graders in northwest Indiana for joking on Facebook about which classmates they would kill.

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Unstable televisions can be a risk to small children.

Child's death heightens awareness of TV set dangers

Bonnie Miller Rubin, Deanese Williams-Harris Chicago Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 10:57am

Before heading off to Minnesota more than a week ago, Adam Hadjis leaned over and kissed his 4-year-old daughter goodbye as she slept. It would be the last time he saw her alive.

Gianna was playing by herself over the weekend when a large TV tipped and fell off a table, landing on the little girl's body, according to the family.

"They said her skull was severely crushed, and she had a massive bruise on the bridge of her nose," Hadjis said Monday.

The death comes less than three months after two similar fatalities -- a 3-year-old Chicago girl who had been playing with her brother and a cousin when a TV tipped over, and a 6-year-old boy in Arlington Heights, Ill., who reached for something on top of the screen, causing the TV to fall.

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Cemetery director sentenced to 12 years over 'bogus graves'

Deanese Williams-Harris Chicago Tribune

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 4:12pm

CHICAGO -- A former director of Burr Oak Cemetery was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday after she pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from "bogus graves" found on the burial grounds in Chicago suburb of Alsip, Ill.

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