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“I always kid him. I say, ‘You’ve got to be a little more excited,’” Penske said. “Well, he was excited today, really. He even got out of his cool, calm way today. I think he said, ‘I’m going to really celebrate; my boy won the Daytona 500.’ ”

Authorities say James Dolan, 61, was taking students home from Barrington School District 220′s Prairie Middle School when he failed to yield to oncoming traffic during a snowstorm and turned in front of a sport utility vehicle headed southbound on Ela Road in Deer Park. The driver of the SUV was unable to stop on the snow-covered road and struck the bus, which had about 20 children on board, authorities said.

With less than a minute left in the second, Calvin de Haan was issued a two-minute minor penalty for a hit that sent Mason Marchment reeling backward. Reinhart jumped in to defend his teammate, and he and de Haan were penalized five-minute majors for fighting.

“It wasn’t something that I came to the university as a goal,” Finley said before the game. “My main focus was to win as many basketball games as I could, put the Wisconsin basketball program on the map, and whatever happened after that, happened.”

Londyn Lavallias, 17, center, president of the Black Student Union at Niles West High School, said the Feb. 18 walkout was essential to “denounce the racist attacks that recently took place at Niles West but continue to happen throughout District 219.” Hundreds of students rallied to protest what they said is systematic racism at the school and in Niles Township High School District 219. (Brian L. Cox / Pioneer Press)

“I told Zach when I came — you win, everything comes,” DeRozan said. “Only thing that matters is winning. Everything else that you could dream of or ask for will come. You don’t even got to worry about that. It’s gonna be hard, but if we really want it, damn everything else. It’s all about winning.”

Were he not grandfathered in, Dart himself would not have qualified to be sheriff under the new provision, except that state records show he received a law enforcement certification late last year, after the new law was signed. Dart, who’s held the office since 2006, formerly was a prosecutor, a state lawmaker and chief of staff to former sheriff Michael Sheahan.

By many mechanical measures, these Games were a success. They were, in fact, quite safe — albeit in the carefully modulated, dress-up-for-company way that authoritarian governments always do best. The local volunteers, as is usually the case, were delightful, helpful and engaging, and they received high-profile accolades at the closing.

The report continues, saying the SUV was seen making a right-hand turn onto eastbound U.S. 30 in Merrillville. As officers were catching up to the vehicle, the driver activated emergency red and blue police lights, giving notice that it was an unmarked police car. In seeing the lights, officers stopped trying to catch up.

A river otter peers above an ice floe. The animals are great at hiding, said Cook County Forest Preserve District wildlife biologist Chris Anchor, and can be hard to spot even when he knows they’re in a certain location. (Jeff Nelson / Cook County Forest Preserves)