Patch Flash: Suburban College Professor Charged on Child Pornography, Weapons Possession

weapons and ammunition, and is scheduled for a bond hearing Thursday, March 8. Ratcliff, 60, was charged with two counts of aggravated possession of child pornography, two counts of possession of a firearm without a FOID card and one count of possession of ammunition without a FOID card. 

she got off the bus and was walking home in the afternoon. According to police, the woman got off the bus at Emerson and Dodge avenues shortly before 2 p.m., Monday, and was walking toward home. The accused, Marlow S. Land, 24, got off the same bus and followed the woman. While in the 1900 block of Dewey Avenue, Land allegedly “pulled her between two house then slamming her to the ground,” the police release said. He then allegedly raped her. 

 The man's identity is still being withheld pending family identification, the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said Monday. The Chicago-bound train struck the man shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday—a minute before it was due to roll into the Oak Forest station.

Instead of its normal teacher institute program last Friday,  Since the school year resumed Jan. 3, two students have been killed after being hit by Metra trains. The high school’s crisis team comprised of Principal Jay Hoffmann and two crisis team members will meet with their counterparts from Barrington High School on March 15 to compare available programs and initiatives. Barrington High School dealt with five suicides over a three-year period (2007-10) involving both students and staff members. 

 . Senate Bill 3244 would amend the School Code and require high school students to take four years of math, instead of three, in order to graduate. 

The couple recently moved from Barrington Hills and brought their five hens with them. Chickens are not permitted in Lake in the Hills under village code. 

You don’t have to travel far to find a . Buffalo Grove officials paved the way for the village’s sixth Starbucks on Monday, when they signed off on a drive-through facility at the southwest corner of Dundee and Arlington Heights roads.