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GENEVA – When the plaintiff’s attorney did not appear for a scheduled court date Thursday, attorneys for the Kane County Forest Preserve, Kane County Cougars and a caterer asked for a dismissal.

GENEVA –  An insurance company is suing the city of Geneva, claiming that a limb from a tree it failed to remove from its parkway fell on power lines next to a house it insured, causing a fire and costing the company more than $650,000 in claims.

BATAVIA – The city-owned “Self Made Man” statue has a new home in front of the O’Sole Mio restaurant on North River Street in downtown Batavia after being damaged and knocked off its pedestal in 2011.

ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles Police Department is reminding people to lock their cars after 11 vehicles were burglarized early Thursday.

BATAVIA – Batavia High School social studies teacher John Dryden argued that he was in the right when he instructed his students they had the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves before answering an in-class survey about emotional and at-risk behavior.

ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP – A judge rejected a plea to reduce the sentence of a man serving a 10-year sentence in a drunken driving conviction that killed two people.

ST. CHARLES – Three children ages 5 and younger watched Sunday as a man yelled racial slurs at the adult couple they were with, according to a St. Charles Police Department report.

ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP – In front of a crowd of supporters, Kane County Lt. Kevin Williams launched his campaign for sheriff Thursday afternoon on the steps of the Kane County Judicial Center.

ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles Police Department is reminding people to lock their cars after 11 vehicles were burglarized early Thursday.

ST. CHARLES – Joe Schelstreet has served as St. Charles' acting fire chief since November, and on Monday his leadership is expected to become permanent.

ST. CHARLES – A man injured by his knife-wielding neighbor was charged with a felony after breaking his neighbor's window nearly three hours later, according to a St. Charles Police Department report.

ST. CHARLES – A man test-firing paint guns in his backyard was unaware the paintballs were landing on vehicles parked at St. Charles Fire Station 3, according to a St. Charles Police Department report.

Kane County was able to get through Wednesday evening's storm with little reported damage, officials said Thursday.

Earl and Kay Harbaugh cut the ribbon to officially open the Kay L. and Earl K. Harbaugh Clinical Simulation Lab at Delnor Hospital in Geneva.

St. Charles resident Ron Senechalle, 51, was at the Great Western Trail Horlock Hill Prairie in St. Charles when he answered 10 questions for the Kane County Chronicle’s Brenda Schory.