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Week in Review: Fake Bomb Threat, Murder Plea and Police Brutality

We know you're busy, so here's a roundup of some of the recent stories featured right here on Bolingbrook Patch.

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In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from the last few days:

  • A against the village and four of its police officers alleges the officers used excessive force during a false arrest in 2009.
  • A bomb threat to Walgreens, located at 680 E. Boughton Rd., the building for a brief period of time.
  • Patricia DeBusk Mack, a 48-yea-old Bolingbrook woman died after a car crash in Shabbona.
  • Marco Rodriguez, 33, of Bolingbrook, after prosecutors said he attacked Roberto Cortez with a kitchen knife in the 100 block of Campbell Drive on the morning of Dec. 26, 2009, the Herald-News reported.
  • Bolingbrook High School student Angelica Payton was , which is given to roughly 3,000 students nationwide.
  • Bolingbrook celebrated its 46th birthday. And it was through that the Village of Bolingbrook rose from the muddy, unpaved streets to the community we see today.
  • The Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital to Hubert Humphrey Middle School.
  • Hospital employees also to raise awareness for annual mammograms during October, the 25th annual National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
  • The woman married to Drew Peterson's Oak Brook cop son but did not shed any light on where she went.
  • IKEA to Hidden Oaks Nature Center.
  • Bolingbrook High School freshman basketball player Prentiss Nixon, who lit it up at the Fab Frosh Camp in Atlanta this summer, recently , HoopsIllini.com reported.
  • to the DuPage Township Board of Trustees.
  • More than 120 golfers and 50 dinner guests toward the Breast Cancer Center at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital during the hospital's golf outing.
  • The Promenade's popular holiday light show, Symphony in Lights, is , Promenade officials announced

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