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Ted Gradel of Naperville, who is one of seven GOP candidates running in the March primary for the 14th Congressional District seat, denied any involvement in the operations or decisions of a stem cell clinic he invested in that is subject to multiple lawsuits.

“It’s truly the only thing people have found to attack me on,” Gradel said during a Northwest Herald Editorial Board interview Wednesday.

US Stem Cell Clinic LLC is the subject of a federal lawsuit claiming that some of their drugs were adulterated or misbran

Seated in a Starbucks in Fox River Grove, Sharmila Wijeyakumar sipped her coffee and casually spoke with a co-worker about her plans to bypass a pimp and liberate a young woman in the throes of sex trafficking.

“An average rescue costs about $1,000 just to get them home or to a safe place,” said Wijeyakumar, who is CEO of the anti-sex trafficking group Rahab’s Daughters. “They don’t have any clothes. They don’t have any ID. They don’t have anything to eat ...

Ted Gradel of Naperville, who is one of seven GOP candidates running in the March primary for the 14th Congressional District seat, denied any involvement in the operations or decisions of a stem cell clinic he invested in that is subject to multiple lawsuits.

“It’s truly the only thing people have found to attack me on,” Gradel said during a Northwest Herald Editorial Board interview Wednesday.

US Stem Cell Clinic LLC is the subject of a federal lawsuit claiming that some of their drugs were adulterated or misbran

Almeda Schulz has many memories of Crystal Lake – 100 years’ worth, to be exact.

Schulz has called Crystal Lake home her entire life, and it also is the place she recently celebrated her 100th birthday on Thursday.

“For my age, I guess I’m doing pretty good,” Schulz said.

Some of Schulz’s memories are sad, such as the tornado she witnessed in the city in 1965.

A Woodstock skate and coffee shop that for the past year has used its brand to fight addiction and promote mental health now is helping McHenry County residents get back on their feet and into the workforce.

Warp Corps owner Robert Mutert has repurposed the basement of his store at 114 N. Benton St. to house a fully functioning screen-printing operation.

• Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories showcasing the opinions and policies of the candidates for the Republican nomination in the 14th Congressional District.

All seven candidates seeking the Republican nomination in the 14th Congressional District are vocal supporters of Second Amendment gun rights.

PORTLAND, Ore.

NEW YORK – About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and almost 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings come from a 2017-18 health survey that measures height and weight. More than 5,000 U.S. adults took part.

The survey found that the obesity rate was 42% – higher than the 40% found in a similar 2015-16 study.

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that his country’s borders with Europe were open, as thousands of refugees gathered at the frontier with Greece.

Migrants played a cat-and-mouse game with Greek border patrols throughout the night and into Saturday, with some cutting holes in the fence only to be turned back by tear gas and stun grenades.

CHICAGO – Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene – an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city.

After watching what she called the “widely shared footage” of the Friday afternoon shooting inside the Red Line El station, Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted that although “one perspective does not d