Palatine Fire Department quickly knocked down an apartment unit fire about 4:00 p.m. Sunday at the Foxfire Apartments along the 1800 bock of north Hicks Road [MAP/SAT].

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A quick squall line dropped a dry snow less than .25 inch depth at about 7:30 p.m. The snow is easily blown and busy roads have little accumulation Sunday night.

A driver in a black BMW hit a red Hummer about 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning and fled the scene eastbound on Rand Road after hitting and disabling a red Hummer by breaking the right front wheel on impact.

The Arlington Heights police found the BMW in the parking lot of the Sports Page Bar about one block east of the accident. The driver apparently fled on foot. An alert driver and quick police response are credited with finding the offending vehicle.

Both vehicles were towed by Hillside. The BMW was drivable, but was confiscated by Arlington Heights Police Department.

Jimmy John’s opened their second restaurant in Arlington Heights in the heart of downtown Arlington Heights at 19 South Dunton Avenue [MAP/SAT] Telephone: 847-463-7363.

Jimmy John’s first Arlington Heights restaurant is located by Hersey High School at 1299 North Rand Road [MAP/SAT]. Telephone: 847-398-4700.

Another Jimmy John’s [MAP/SAT] nearby is the Buffalo Grove Jimmy John’s located at 1267 West Dundee Road. Telephone: 847-454-0420

Jimmy John’s is located in about 20 states, but Jimmy John’s got it’s start right here in Illinois. Jimmy John Liautaud graduated second-to-last in 1982 from Cary-Grove High School. The first Jimmy John’s opened in a garage in Charleston, Illinois on January 13, 1983, with used equipment, no menu or outdoor advertisement, and only four sandwiches available with 25-cent Cokes.

Since many Jimmy John’s shops are located in college towns, catchy signs with witty phrases like amuse patrons in the restaurant:

 ”The customer is usually right”
“Your mom wants you to eat at Jimmy John’s”
“We’d love to see you naked but state code requires a shirt and shoes”
“Free Smells”

The “Billy Club” sandwich, which was also the name of a former restaurant at the famous “Harry’s of Arlington” site, is named after a Jimmy John’s former manager, William “Billy” Burns, who was killed in a car accident in the 1980’s.

Franchising began in 1993 — long after a prototype chain for Jimmy John’s developed.

Former Major League Baseball player and Yankee Jim Leyritz, 44, was arrested Friday — a day after his birthday — on charges of driving under the influence and killing a 30 year-old woman driver after his vehicle crashed into hers. The mother of two children was ejected from her 2000 Mitsubishi Montero and was transported by paramedics to Broward General Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

Jim Leyritz drove his 2006 Ford Expedition through a red light, and in a T-bone collision at Southwest Second Street and Southwest Seventh Avenue in Fort Lauderdale [MAP/SAT], hit and flipped the Montero driven by Fredia Ann Veitch of Plantation, Florida.  Leyritz failed a police roadside field-sobriety exercises like walking and touching his finger to his nose, and he refused to take a Breathalyzer test. A police report describes the following:  Leyritz had “red, watery eyes, flushed face and the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his person.”

Following news of the death of Fredia Ann Veitch, Leyritz was charged with driving under the influence, manslaughter and D.U.I. property damage. He was uncooperative, according to the police, and did not have his blood taken until 6:10 a.m., and then again at 7:12 a.m., at Broward General Medical Center.

Leyritz stopped playing major league baseball in 2000, but re-entered the spotlight in 2006 when he admitted in separate radio interviews that he took amphetamines and human growth hormone. During an interview on the “Opie & Anthony” show on XM Radio, Leyritz said that the event that led to his first time taking an amphetamine was the day after he had a late night, drinking with teammates. Hung over and sleeping by his locker, Leyritz learned he was starting instead of Don Mattingly. He tracked down a player he knew that was using amphetamines to obtain amphetamines for his own use.

In a New York Post article, Leyritz admitted using human Growth Hormone (hGH) while recovering from surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff between the 2000 and 2001 seasons.

Keywords: Freida Ann Veitch, Frieda Ann Veitch

Arlington Heights Police received a report of an auto break-in and

burglary in the 1100 block of South New Wilke about 1:45 Saturday.