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Man gets 55 years for slaying of East Aurora teen
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YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A 23-year-old Aurora man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for a slaying in Oswego three years ago. The (Aurora) Beacon-News reports that Kendall County Judge John Barsanti sentenced Francisco Salazar on Wednesday to 30 years for murder and 25 years for attempted murder. Salazar was convicted in May in the death of 17-year-old Jason Ventura, a former star soccer player at East Aurora High School. Prosecutors say Salazar drove four men to a party in Oswego in December 2009. While Salazar's group was leaving, one of them exchanged rival gang signs with someone in Ventura's car. Prosecutors say Salazar turned his car around and a passenger, Zachary Reyes, fired 11 shots into Ventura's car, striking Ventura and another man. Reyes is serving a 92-year sentence. 
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Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: Fanatics have grown wonderfully civil since the president snubbedthem by revoking Burnside's infamous attack upon the freedom of the press.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Interstate baseball league has collapsed, leaving Davenport'sleading team without a league connection.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Passengers were stunned yesterday when lightning struck a LongView street car at 9th Ave. and 25th St.
1938 -- 75 years ago: X-ray examinations today traced the trouble with Dizzy Dean's$250,000 pitching arm to a pulled muscle back of his right shoulder blade.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Radio station WQAD in Moline is being considered by the NationalCivil Defense Office for selection as a "secured communication center" Mrs. Gault,executive deputy director of the Moline Civil Defense unit reported today.
1988 -- 25 years ago: "Marketplace 29 A.D." an unusual vacation Bible school programthat will allow children to live three days as people did during the Bible Times June 21-23. The three day program, is a joint project of Aldersgate and Bethel-Wesley UnitedMethodist churches.
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