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Kurtz to suggest another nominee Pool of 6 remains for health board vacancy By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com

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Investigators comb the Richmond Associated Bank parking lot Friday after a shootout involving FBI agents and bank robbery suspects. Joan Hyde, special agent with the Chicago division of the FBI, said the FBI was in Richmond as part of an ongoing investigation and confirmed agents exchanged gunfire with the suspects.

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Authorities were called to Associated Bank about 11:30 a.m. FBI agents stopped the would-be robbers before they entered the bank and exchanged gunfire with the suspects, officials said. The shootout left one suspect dead and another two were taken in to custody, officials said.

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RICHMOND – The parking lot of a modest, beige bank in the small town of Richmond was the scene of a shootout between FBI agents and men the bureau suspects were planning on robbing the bank. The shootout, which occurred outside Associated Bank, 10910 N. Main St., Richmond, late Friday morning left one suspect dead, officials said. Another two were taken into custody. The FBI had not released any names as of Friday evening. The bureau will release the names of the two in custody when charges are filed, said Joan Hyde, special agent with the Chicago division of the FBI. The two apprehended suspects have been transported to Winnebago County. FBI officials won’t say what precipitated the shooting other

Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com

A tarp blocks the view of the scene after a shootout Friday between FBI agents and suspected bank robbers in Richmond. than the officers acted according to the bureau’s deadly force policy, in which officers use deadly force when there is an imminent threat of danger. Hyde confirmed no agents were injured during the shooting.

Agents were in Richmond as part of an ongoing investigation out of the bureau’s Chicago office, Hyde said. Authorities were called to the

The McHenry County Board could have two competing candidates to choose from to fill a vacancy on the embattled Mental Health Board. Public Health and Human Services Committee Chairwoman Donna Kurtz said at a Friday special meeting that she will call a meeting to recommend another candidate. The announcement came three days after the County Board resoundingly rejected the committee’s last pick – former McHenry County Donna Kurtz College Trustee Public Health Scott Summers – and Human on a 6-18 vote. Services However, CounCommittee ty Board Chairwoman Tina Hill, chairwoman R-Woodstock, said she still intends to bring forth a nominee of her own. Hill raised eyebrows and concerns Tuesday morning when she exercised her Tina Hill right under board County Board rules to do so im- chairwoman mediately after the County Board’s rejection of Summers, an attorney and MBA living in Harvard. “I hope the committee process will be respected, otherwise we open a Pandora’s box,” said committee member Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake. While the rules give Hill the power to prevent whatever new pick, if any, the committee makes from making it onto the County Board agenda, she said Friday that she is leaning toward allowing it to go forward along with hers at the May 21 board meeting. The public health committee met 30 minutes before a County Board budget workshop to discuss its next move in the wake of Tuesday’s rejection. But just like they were split on nominating Summers, who squeaked through on a 4-3 vote last month, they were split on the course of action to take. Critics in recent years have alleged that the Mental Health

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REPORT RAISES POLLUTION ISSUE The proposed development within one of Marengo’s more controversial annexation deals raises a “huge concern” over groundwater contamination, a newly released environmental report found. The report details the highly permeable, gravel-laden soils that make up most of the 340 acres west of Route 23 owned by A.R. Land Co. For more, see page B1.

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