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By Samantha Abernethy in News on Nov 18, 2011 12:00AM


  • A judge threw out the case against a Chicago-area man accused of stalking teen star Selena Gomez. [Tribune]

  • Remember how a house was leveled by an explosion on the southwest side? Well, it turns out the owner accidentally punctured the gas line. [Tribune]

  • The Illinois tollway system will no longer let its employees take free rides. [WLS]

  • A former FedEx employee fired off a few shots at a Bedford Park FedEx facility, then shot and killed himself. [Southtown Star]

  • A Milwaukee woman was arrested for the death of a man who had more than 300 puncture wounds because of some weird werewolf sex thing. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]