Cancer patient urges breast exams amid terminal battle
Martha Irwin Dayton recalls discovering a lump in 1985 and undergoing mastectomies and chemotherapy. She speaks candidly about fear, faith, and the need for women to perform self checks and get mammograms, hoping to spare others from her fate while facing bone and lung metastases and a painful, uncertain future.
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Poisoning arc shocks Illinois suburbia with arsenic
A deranged woman distributed arsenic tainted snacks to Northwestern University fraternities and local youths in Glencoe Highland Park and Winnetka. Multiple injuries and a fatal shooting spree followed as investigators linked syringes, vials, and contaminated milk to the suspect Dana Dann, a troubled former babysitter with a violent past.
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University of Michigan Medical Center
Waterloo grandmother enraged after student slay and school shooting
In Winnetka Illinois Laurie Dann opened fire in Hubbard Woods Elementary wounding five children and killing eight year old Nicholas Corwin. His grandmother Sylvia Weissman of Waterloo and his mother Linda Corwin express devastation and call for stricter school entry controls. The shooter died by self-inflicted means hours later. The Corwin family mourns Nick alongside siblings Michael and John.
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Teachers Voice Complaints Over Reform Morale
The Carnegie poll shows 49 percent of teachers say morale worsened since 1983, with 28 percent unchanged and 23 percent improved. They cite more paperwork and bureaucracy, worse teaching conditions, and little gains in respect, space, load, time, and funds for innovation.
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Benton County motorcyclist injured in crash
A Benton County man, Mark Cook age 25 of Urbana, was critically injured Saturday when he lost control of his motorcycle on North Center Point Road three miles south of Center Point. He was flown by Life-Guard to St Luke's Hospital and was not wearing a helmet, per the Linn County Sheriff’s Department.
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