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Chris Guza holds a sign in support of Cotton the pig during a Morton Grove adjudication hearing at Village Hall on June 1. The Minx family, Cotton’s owners, had been ticketed by the village for keeping a prohibited animal, but an agreement will allow Cotton to remain in the home. (Jennifer Johnson / Pioneer Press)
His 34-month sentence would be served through the Lake County Community Transition Court under Judge Salvador Vasquez, Cappas said. It helps offenders transition back with services, such as like helping with driver’s licenses and frequent court monitoring. If he completes the program, his sentence can be forgiven early, Cappas said. Hannah would also receive time credited for his incarceration since December.
Rick Foulkes, left, and his wife Rita Rossi-Foulkes host their longtime friend Janet Nern, her son-in-law Adam Laski, top right, and her daughter Emily Laski for dinner on May 28, 2021. Adam will provide Rick with a portion of his liver in a transplant surgery. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Johnson & Johnson must pay a $2.1 billion award to women who claimed its baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos, after the U.S. Supreme Court left intact the verdict in the litigation over the product. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America/TNS)
The JBS Australia’s Dinmore meatworks facility is seen May 12, 2020, west of Brisbane, Australia. Thousands of Australian meat workers had no work for a second day on June 1, 2021, after a cyberattack crippled the world’s largest meat processing company. (DAN PELED/AP)
“That’s how confident I feel about my pitches right now,” he said. “Learning how to manipulate my slider, how to shape it, how to go from 82 (mph) or 84 to 89 with the same pitch, it’s a huge deal because people think it’s the same pitch. ‘Oh, no, he’s just throwing his sliders.’
Daley Center security staff officers Al Faulkner, left, and Steve Holmes raise the pride flag at the start of Cook County’s Pride Month ceremony at Daley Plaza on June 1, 2021. The rainbow flag will fly in Daley Plaza during the entire month of June for the first time ever. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
“When the students found out the next day, they had brought in counselors,” Hess said. “And when the children started speaking up about ‘they are sad,’ ‘this is my family,’ ‘I don’t want the school to close,’ etc., I had to walk out because it broke my heart. I didn’t want to have the children see me cry. I wanted them to know it was going to be OK, and when one door closes another opens.”
In the decade leading up to the pandemic, American companies spent more than $6 trillion to buy their own shares, roughly tripling their purchases, according to a study by the Bank for International Settlements. Companies in Japan, Britain, France, Canada and China increased their buybacks fourfold, though their purchases were a fraction of their American counterparts.
A prefabricated three-bedroom, 2,341-square-foot midcentury modern home in Michigan City, Ind. that is on the National Register of Historic Places sold on May 14 for $850,000 — $100,000 above its asking price. – Original Credit: @properties (Rudy Conner / HANDOUT)