Midwest
Newlyweds found dead days before celebrating their first anniversary: police
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A couple from Wisconsin was found dead inside a car just days before celebrating their 1-year wedding anniversary.
The Harvard, Illinois Police Department said in a news release that the couple were found when an officer on October 6 noticed a parked car with its hazard lights activated. When the officer went to look inside the car, both were found dead. They were later identified as Rachel Dumovich, 29, and Brandon Dumovich, 30, from Sharon, Wisconsin, the McHenry County Coroner’s Office told NBC5.
Police said both people had gunshot wounds, adding a gun was found inside the car. The police department didn’t release additional details on how the couple died but said the McHenry County Major Investigative Assistance Team was activated for the incident.
While police told nearby residents to shelter in place after finding the dead couple, it was “later determined there was no ongoing threat to the community.”
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Rachel Dumovich, 29, and Brandon Dumovich, 30, got married in October 2024. (The Knot/Rachel Dumovich)
A wedding page on The Knot for Rachel and Brandon describes the couple as “middle school sweethearts.”
Rachel described that she met Brandon in middle school when she was 12 years old and caught his attention by “stealing cologne from his locker and running away with it.”
The two stayed in “touch through many life stages and 15 years of friendship,” Rachel wrote, sharing that they began dating in 2022.
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Rachel Dumovich and Brandon Dumovich were less than one week before their wedding anniversary. (Facebook/Rachel Dumovich)
Brandon proposed in the summer of 2023 at Big Cedar Lake in Slinger, Wisconsin, where the pair got married on October 12, 2024.
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Rachel Dumovich and Brandon Dumovich met in middle school. (Facebook/Rachel Dumovich)
“We can’t wait to share the next chapter of our love story surrounded by our friends and family!” Rachel wrote in announcing the wedding.
Hours before her death, Rachel posted on Facebook: “Forever chasing sunsets. Wishing we were back in Greece.” The post appeared to reference the couple’s honeymoon.
People with any information are asked to contact the Harvard Police Department at (815) 943-4431 or provide information anonymously through the Crime Stoppers hotline at (815) 943-4343 or email crimestoppers@cityofharvard.org.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin football’s glimpses of progress don’t last against loaded Indiana Hoosiers squad
BLOOMINGTON, IND. – Given the Wisconsin football team’s résumé, a win would have been a lot to expect.
Indiana is the No. 2-ranked team in the country for a reason. The Hoosiers are getting outstanding quarterback play, have potential NFL talent on the offenisve line and at receiver and have studs at each level of the defense.
Indiana is headed to the College Football Playoff. The Badgers are still finding their way.
So one week after getting its first Big Ten win of the season, did UW show progress in its 31-7 loss to Indiana on Saturday, Nov. 15?
In answering that question, consider:
- Indiana’s 10-7 halftime lead equaled its second-closest first half of the season. It was tied with Iowa and led Oregon by 3 points.
- The Badgers’ five sacks Saturday were the most allowed by Indiana this season. Wisconsin’s seven tackles for a loss was the second-highest total for a Hoosiers’ opponent.
Of course the Badgers need much more to become a consistent winner, but what they showed Saturday was more in line with what we saw from the team in its two previous games against Oregon and Washington than what it delivered against Iowa, Ohio State and Maryland.
The challenge Saturday was maintaining that standard of play for 60 minutes against a team that ranks top six nationally in total offense and defense.
“I think the first half you saw us execute a majority of the half, and I think that wasn’t the case in the second half,” said graduate outside linebacker Darryl Peterson, who had a career-high 2½ sacks. “Obviously, the last two games, we’ve got to try to put together four quarters of execution, all three phases.”
Famililar struggles haunt Badgers
Despite the spirited start, Wisconsin’s Achilles heel came back to trip it.
It gained just 23 yards in the second half, and its 168 total yards for the game was its second-lowest total of the season behind the 144 it gained against No. 1 Ohio State.
Injuries played a role in those struggles. Running back Gideon Ituka, a spark for the run game the previous two games, was carted off the field and taken to the hospital after a hard hit in the third quarter and center Davis Heinzen, who made his third straight start, didn’t finish the game due to an ankle injury.
Meanwhile, the defense didn’t force a turnover for the sixth game this season and was carved up by IU quarterback Fernando Mendoza, who connected on 22 of 24 throws for 299 yards. Big plays were huge as he gained 166 of those yards on just five completions.
His opposite number, Wisconsin freshman Carter Smith, completed nine of 15 passes for 98 yards and one touchdown.
“It’s a tale of two halves,” Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell said. “In the first half, to be honest with you, that’s kind of the way you’d draw it up for us, methodically doing some things, moving the football, taking care of the football, eliminating big plays other than one defensively.
“I think that was the idea of the way we want to be able to play right now and the complementary idea of what football’s got to look like for us.”
The ups and downs of Carter Smith’s first start
Smith was given a looser rein in his second game and was given the opportunity to make more plays downfield.
The coaches showed him great trust in calling what proved to be Wisconsin’s biggest play of the day, a 45-yard touchdown pass to tight end Lance Mason on a fourth-and-1 play.
That score tied the game, 7-7, with 3 minutes 42 seconds to go in the first half, but in the second half Smith turned it over twice. The crucial one was his fumble at the UW 21 that almost instantly led to a Hoosiers touchdown that pushed their lead to 24-7. Two of Indiana’s three second-half touchdowns came off Smith turnovers.
The Badgers tried to take some chances in the second half. They just didn’t work out.
“To think that you’re going to methodically drive 12, 13 plays down the field on a really, really good football team, it’s not (realistic) …” Fickell said. “We’ve got to be able to take some more shots. We’ve got to give him some more opportunities. We’ve got to turn him loose a little bit more, and unfortunately, you know, it didn’t work well for us.”
Smith entered the game during the second series against Washington but didn’t get starter snaps in practice that week. Heading into the Indiana game, he received more of those reps in practice.
He also had more put on his plate.
“That’s something that comes with playing quarterback,” Smith said about the added workload. “So it’s something I need to get better with is having a lot on my plate and being able to handle it all.”
Two games to go, much to accomplish
The loss guarantees Wisconsin (3-7, 1-6) its second straight losing season, but the team has two games remaining.
Next Illinois (7-3, 4-3) comes to Camp Randall on Nov. 22; then UW plays at Minnesota (6-4, 4-3) on Nov. 29.
“We got to keep pushing, and we’re going to find out a hell of a lot about everybody that’s in this program, whether they’re seniors that have two guaranteed opportunities to play the game of football left, or young guys,” Fickell said. “Everything has got to be evaluated, and we’ve got to grow.”
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‘Gen Z’ Dem candidate charged with interfering with ICE posted video of herself in mob blocking unmarked SUV
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An Illinois Democratic congressional candidate posted video to social media that appears to depict events described in a federal indictment accusing her of impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh, a self-styled “Gen Z influencer,” has called the charges a “political prosecution” and said she was exercising her First Amendment rights, not breaking the law.
“I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice,” she wrote on X. “This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.”
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Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh holds a megaphone outside the Broadview ICE processing center Sept. 26, 2025. (Reuters/Jim Vondruska)
During a protest outside ICE’s Broadview Service Staging Area in suburban Chicago on Sept. 26, federal prosecutors allege that she joined a mob that swarmed a law enforcement vehicle, blocking it with their bodies before someone etched the word “PIG” into the vehicle and others ripped off a mirror and windshield wiper.
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According to the indictment, Abughazaleh is accused of taking part in the blockade at around 7:45 a.m. that same day.
“ABUGHAZALEH joined the crowd at the front of the Government Vehicle, and with her hands on the hood braced her body and hands against the vehicle while remaining directly in the path of the vehicle, hindering and impeding Agent A and the vehicle from proceeding to the [staging area],” the indictment reads.
The video appears to show just that, with Abughazaleh at the head of the crowd, leaning into the front of the unmarked vehicle, a black SUV with flashing lights.
Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh protests at an ICE processing center Sept. 26, 2025, near Chicago. (Reuters/Jim Vondruska)
Abughazaleh bills herself as a radical progressive Democrat whose platform includes a wealth tax on rich Americans, a $25 minimum wage and “an immediate pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and other undocumented immigrants.” Her hobbies include knitting and playing video games, according to her website.
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She has also vehemently opposed the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. In a televised interview earlier this month, she told former White House press secretary Jen Psaki that she thinks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “should be tried at the Hague” — a reference to the Netherlands-based International Criminal Court.
Abughazaleh faces two counts under a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday: conspiracy to prevent a law enforcement officer from discharging his duties and forcibly impeding, intimidating and interfering with a federal officer. Five other people at the protest were also charged.
A protester wearing an American flag face covering stands opposite Cook County sheriffs outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Two of them are also involved in local politics: Michael Rabbitt, a Democratic committee person in Chicago’s 45th Ward, and Catherine Sharp, a candidate for the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
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The Gen Z candidate is running for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District seat to replace outgoing 81-year-old Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who is retiring after holding the office since 1999.
Fox News’ Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.
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