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Penny Lane, Suite 200 Schaumburg, IL 60173-5601 Call: 847-755-7400 Fax: 847-755-8930 Or e-mail: How to contact us METRO By Brian Cox Special to the Tribune A Maine Township man who beat his 4-year-old son to death because the boy wet his pants was sentenced to 45 years in prison Monday. William Hooper, 37, agreed to plead guilty to one count of first- degree murder to avoid facing the possibility of the death penalty, said Cook County Assistant Atty. Steve Goebel. Hooper will not be eligible for parole, Goebel said. was a brutal and heinous Goebel told Circuit Judge Garritt Howard.

Hooper was charged with murdering Anthony Moore in November 2002. Hooper lived with the mother, Linda Kee, in an apartment in the 10000 block of Linda Lane in unincorporated Maine Township, near Des Plaines. Kee, 31, is also charged with first-degree murder and is awaiting trial. She is being held in Cook County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail. Although Kee was at work and witness the fatal beating, prosecutors allege she is equally responsible for the death because she knew her son was being routinely abused and did nothing to stop it.

Prosecutors said Anthony was son from a previous relationship and said Hooper routinely beat the child with his fists, belt and a skipping rope when the boy wet his pants. Goebel saidKee gave Hooper permission to hit all of her children. two daughters, age 10 and 8, have been placed in fos- ter care. Goebel said that on Nov. 22, 2002, Hooper beat Anthony so badly that the child started to slip into a coma.

Hooper took the boy to a hospital several hours after the beating, and he died a few days later. At the time, doctors found evidence of previous beatings, including a boot mark on the skin, Goebel said.Kee and Hooper concocted a story to blame the death on one of old boyfriends, Goebel said. Kee is scheduled for a Sept. 24 preliminary hearing at the Skokie courthouse. Man gets 45 years for killing boy, 4 Mother also faces murder charges A woman whose body was foundat an Uptown apartment fire was strangled, the Cook County medical of- ficesaid Monday.

Antonette Starling, 40, of the 4700 block of North Malden Street, was pronounced dead at 6:45 a.m. Sunday, about an hour after a fire engulfed her second- floor apartment, authorities said. But an autopsyshowed the fire did cause her death. The Chicago Fire Department is still investigating the cause of the fire, a spokeswoman said. Police had no suspects, a Belmont Area detective said.

Woman in Uptown fire was strangled small army of hip-hop and stars has come together on a new single that they hope will motivate more Americans, especially young people, to vote in November. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Ashanti, Eve, Brandy, Wyclef Jean and Jadakiss are among more than two dozen performers who have recorded an updated version of Up a 1976 hit for Harold Melvin the Blue Notes. Kenny Edmonds produced the single, which will benefit America Coming organization that supports the defeat of President Bush. But participants in Up say the goal of this project is participation, not partisanship.

play it backward and hear it say for Edmonds said. no double entendres or second meanings here. Still, the chorus of song says, world get no better if we just let it world get no better, we got- ta which few would interpret as an endorsement of any incumbent politician. way I see it, too many people in our history fought for the right for all of us to vote for anyone not to take advantage of that. I care who voting Edmonds said.

Los Angeles Times Hip-hop, artists hope song moves voters to polls By Tim McCahill Associated Press COVENTRY, singing and dancing, more than 60,000 fans basked in the music as Phish performed for the last night Sunday at a festival in northeastern Vermont, the jam home state. With no word of introduction, bassist Mike Gordon took the lead vocals and worked the crowd into a funk- driven frenzy with the Phish classic to begin the first of three farewell sets. The feverish melee paused only for the gentle pulsing of Page organ, signaling the transition into the softer instrumental Am As Phish resumed intensity to round out the tune, the crowd thanked the band for the groove with screams, bouncing beach balls and thunderous applause. The commotion stood in sharp relief to the venue Phish chose to build its concert stage: aquiet, mostly agricultural section of Vermont not far from the Canadian border. The rolling hills and open expanse of field formed a natural amphitheater for the band to stage its traditional improvisation-heavy live show.

Phish announced in May that it would break up after the festival, eliciting reactions among fans that ranged from anger to acceptance. That diversity of emotion was obvious among at the site of the two- day event, the 600-acre Newport State Airport. think that Trey is said Sean Mullady of Rockville Centre, N.Y., referring to front man. is ending it; no band to take over the But Chelsea Terrell, 31, of San Francisco said the departure from the music scene meant that it was time to move on. me, time to start something she said.

thankful it ever AP photo by Joel Page Trey Anastasio (left), bassist Mike Gordon and the rest of Phish played together one last time at a festival show on Sunday. 60,000 devoted fans flock to Vermont for 1last serving of Phish MORE IN TEMPO John von Rhein reviews Charles Ives celebration at Ravinia. SEC. 5, PAGE 3. Diane Claussen, executive director of Court Theatre, has resigned her post to move to New Jersey, where she will become managing director for the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.

Last year, professional mentorMichael Gennaro left Steppenwolf Theatre Com- pany to head up Paper Mill as president and CEO. Through much of the 1990s, Claussen managed the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J. The new Court season begins Sept. 23 with Afraid of Virginia Michael Phillips Court Theatre director moving to N.J..