Court Supervision: Give Thanks

Thankfully, it was a short week.

It was a three-day week at the Will County Courthouse, so there wasn't a lot going on. It was nice while it lasted, because that's all going to change next week, starting with Monday's sentencing hearing for quadruple-killer Christopher Vaughn. Vaughn was convicted in September of murdering his wife, 34-year-old Kimberly Vaughn, and three children—Blake, 8, Cassandra, 11, and Abigayle, 12—in June 2007. Vaughn is going to get life in prison. But that's next week. In the week that just ended, we saw Coal City woman Tiffany Unland, 30, fail to convince a judge to further reduce her bond from $120,000 to $50,000. Unland already got it lowered once from $200,000. Unland allegedly killed a Palatine man in a drunken crash on Route 6 in Channahon …

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Camping, a Fun Summer Adventure

Overnights in the outdoors have created a bunch of memories for this family.

We could hear a bunch of yelling through the noisy buckets of rain pouring onto the nylon walls of our tent. Then, from outside, there was a big splash. Then just the rain. A little while later, we heard it again. I turned to Pat and whispered, “I don’t think they’ll be there in the morning.” I half expected to see a tent, but no car when we peeked outside at daybreak. Among the mess of puddles and mud pits that had become our campsite, our friends were still there. Water had pooled on the roof of their tent during the night, causing a big belly of water to collapse part of the tent. We heard them lifting it and pushing the water off onto the ground. My friend spent the night worried the tent would collapse and suffocate one of her kids. I…

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