Mount Prospect Fire Department responded to the 1800 block of West Catalpa for the report of a dog that returned home with a strange-smelling residue on its paws — sort of like some type of ’stink bomb.’

Mount Prospect firefighters responded and investigated the dog’s paws and determined the dog had been sprayed by a skunk.

Did you ever see the story about the albino skunk sighted in Arlington Heights? Check out The Cardinal story Albino Skunk Trapped in Arlington Heights (with photos to prove it) …

Wheeling police got a report of a domestic argument Friday night with the husband reported to be letting the air out of all the tires of his wife’s car so she can’t go out.

General location/address withheld out of respect for each half of the marriage.

Tension for kids going back to school? Arlington Heights police received a report about 8:30 p.m. that someone left a ‘flaming bag of doo doo’ on a front porch in the 700 block of East Canterbury Drive. Canterbury is just north of Camelot Park in Arlington Heights.

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Cindy Economou, 38, accused of taking home Karl Lambert’s lower left leg from the scene of a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 95 at mile marker 118 in Port St. Lucie on September 19, 2008, has been charged with one count of petit theft — a second-degree misdemeanor. After deeming Lambert’s foot unsalvageable, St. Lucie County Fire rescue crews amputated the foot to free Lambert from the wreck. The amputation occurred about six-to-eight inches below Lambert’s left knee.

Economou claims that Deputy Chief Bailey of the St. Lucie County Fire District initially told her she couldn’t have the foot, but later said Bailey said “something” along the lines of “I don’t want to know” that she interpreted as “‘unexplicit authorization’ … ” so she took the foot from the scene and put in a freezer. She apparently wanted to use the foot later for training of her cadaver dog — a dog that is specially trained and used to find dead bodies.

The amputated part was eventually submitted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach on September 24, 2008.

A scheduled hearing for Thursday has been changed to 9 a.m. March 30, 2009 for a jury trial before St. Lucie County Judge Philip Yacucci. If found guilty, punishment could consist of 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.

Related stories …
Ex-St. Lucie firefighter enters plea in foot theft case — St. Lucie County : TCPalm

St. Lucie firefighter accused of taking crash victim’s foot resigns — St. Lucie County : TC Palm

Yep. Just after midnight — very, very early on Tuesday — Palatine police were looking for a heckler of the benefactors at a Palatine bar. Durtie Nellies was holding a Charity Concert to benefit two NIU-related funds: the DeKalb-Sycamore Community Memorial Fund and NIU’s February 14 Scholarship Fund.

The DeKalb and Sycamore Chambers, in cooperation with the DeKalb County
Community Foundation, have established a Community Memorial Fund. The
501c3 non-profit corporation fund is collecting donations to be used for a community remembrance.

Northern Illinois University has established a scholarship fund to honor the memory of the students slain in the February 14 tragedy. The February 14 Student Scholarship Fund will receive gifts through the NIU Foundation for the general scholarship fund and work through the NIU Scholarship Committee to distribute scholarships to deserving students in the name of those who lost their lives in the shooting at Cole Hall.

A total of six people, all residents of Illinois, died at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) shooting on February 14, 2008: Gayle Dubowski, 20 — Carol Stream; Catalina Garcia, 20 — Cicero; Julianna Gehant, 32 — Meriden; Steven Kazmierczak, 27 — Champaign (perpetrator); Ryanne Mace, 19 — Carpentersville; Daniel Parmenter, 20 — Elmhurst.

A total of sixteen people were injured at the February 14 NIU shooting: Lauren
Debrauwere — Lake Barrington; Samantha Dehner, 20 — Carol Stream; J.D.
Donohue, 19 — Rolling Meadows; Ryne Erickson — Des Plaines; Brian Karpes,
27 — Rolling Meadows; Patrick Korellis, 22 — Lindenhurst; Jeff Malina –
Glenview; Harold Ng, 21 — Mundelein; Joseph Peterson, 26 — DeKalb (course
instructor); Unnum Rahman, 19 — Plainfield; Maria Ruiz Santana, 19 –
Elgin; Jeremy Walker, 20 — Caledonia; Sherman Yau, 20 — Naperville.

A man wearing all gray with a red hat was walking up to people — pointing his finger like a gun and saying, “Hey, I’m a hit man!”

Nobody was amused.
 

Arlington Heights Police received a report of shots fired Saturday

afternoon. Patrol officers were already aware that skeet shooting occurs

on the grounds of Rolling Green Country Club near Rand and Euclid.

Residents could hear the skeet shooting loud and clear as far away as

Palatine and Arlington Heights Road.