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Judge denies woman’s request to have 55-year sentence vacated in double murder of elderly couple in Algonquin

A judge denied a woman’s request to have her 55-year sentence vacated after she pleaded guilty to stabbing an elderly couple to death in Algonquin and then claimed she was coerced into the plea. Arin M. Fox, 42, of Algonquin, was charged in November 2020 with four counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery to a […]

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3 years in prison for Harvard mother convicted after child found severely malnourished, within days of death

A judge sentenced a mother to three years in prison after her 6-year-old child was found “severely malnourished” in Harvard in 2020 and doctors said he was possibly days from death. The Harvard Police Department and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) responded on November 17, 2020, to the 100 block of Shawnee […]

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Woman sentenced to 55 years in prison for double murder of elderly couple in Algonquin seeks to have sentence vacated

A woman sentenced to 55 years in prison for stabbing an elderly couple to death in Algonquin is asking for her sentence to be vacated after claiming she was coerced into the plea deal. Arin M. Fox, 42, of Algonquin, was charged in November 2020 with four counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery to a […]

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Zion man shows up to sentencing hearing drunk before being sentenced to almost 5 years in prison for McHenry knife slashing

A Zion man who showed up to his sentencing hearing drunk was sentenced to almost five years in prison for slashing a woman in the face with a knife in McHenry. Rogelio Cantu Jr., 54, of Zion, was charged in January 2022 with aggravated domestic battery, two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, […]