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FILE - In this image from body camera video released by Illinois State Police, Sonya Massey, left, talks with Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson outside her home in Springfield, Ill., July 6, 2024.
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Sean Grayson, former deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison, lawyer says
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Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff's deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Thousands of National Guard members have been patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. for more than a year, in what has become President Trump's largest and longest domestic military deployment.
Illustration by Mari Fouz​ for NPR
'It embarrasses me to be involved': Inside the National Guard D.C. deployment
Kat Lonsdorf
When DuPage County celebrated its centennial in 1939, it printed posters commemorating the alleged Lincoln-Douglas debate. The debate location was printed as West Chicago. The town was not called West Chicago until 1896.
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