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With the help of witnesses who identified his car and license plate, police Thursday arrested a 26-year-old West Dundee man suspected in a hit-and-run crash that left a bicyclist hospitalized in intensive care.

The Canadian National Railway is hoping the federal courts will give it what the federal government won't in its battle to acquire the smaller EJ&E railroad.

An Elgin teen convicted earlier this year of stabbing a teacher pleaded guilty Thursday to unrelated sexual assault charges and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

A small plane made an emergency landing on a busy four-lane road in Bolingbrook, injuring a pilot and passenger. Bolingbrook police spokesman Ken Teppel says both were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Sloppy eater Ike the pug of Barrington Hills won the Alpo Real Meat Moments Video Contest this week for his incessant spinning before being fed his favorite dog chow and gobbling up his dinner on his two front paws.