The speaker didn’t take disciplinary action against Benton until this year when a female lobbyist said she was harassed by him at a River North bar in January, the Tribune reported.
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Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2026
The same trans-activists who screamed at me in legislatures and harassed me at colleges could misuse the Protect College Sports Act to challenge every single state law defending women’s athletic competition…all 27 of them.
Committee delays The county formed a committee, the Advisory Meeting on Public School Capacity, that was supposed to figure out how to fix the problem, but it's been plagued by delays filling its seats and only met for the first time last month.
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Mike Hellgren,
CBS News,
17 Aug. 2026
His stint with the Bills was plagued by injuries and a Dallas domestic violence case that led to a four-game suspension.
If customers have been irked about the thumb-twiddling wait or early closing hours, most aren’t complaining.
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Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
18 Aug. 2026
Baldur is more circumspect, irked at having temporarily lost his boat in the mishap, and unsettled by Helge’s teasing manner, which could be interpreted as either adversarial or flirtatious.
Zinn in the years to come was vexed both morally and politically by the impersonality of the killing as a bombardier.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2026
In the meantime, the deadly encounter has reignited a contentious debate about body cameras, one that has long vexed local officials and pitted some of the city’s progressive groups against each other.
The indictment revealed that prosecutors had bugged the Aisenbergs' home for three months after Sabrina's disappearance.
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Curran Rastogi,
ABC News,
10 Aug. 2026
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, a law-enforcement agency known as NABU, had bugged Mindich’s apartment in Kyiv, and detectives picked up his conversations about Fire Point.
One night, Timothy alleges, Melanie badgered her to get it on, but Timothy successfully held out.
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Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
13 July 2026
As aldermen badgered the buyer, seller and Johnson’s top lawyers during the no-vote hearing, some zeroed in on the mayor, accusing his team of being unnecessarily secretive.
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