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3 WCHICAGO TRIBUNE METRO SECTION2 Officials plan to resume the search Tuesday morning for a kayaker reported missing Sunday on Lake Michigan near Waukegan Harbor. Walter Doroba, 44, of Gurnee was last heard from while kayaking Sunday around 3:30 p.m., Lake County Sgt. Christopher Thompson said. A boater called authorities about 5p.m. after noticing a kayaker he had seen a short time before was no longer in his kayak.

The boater coming back from fishing and found life jacket in the said Charles Wolfson, a civilian search and rescue controller for the U.S. Coast Guard. Authorities later found what is believed to be kayak with his keys and cell phone inside, about 400 yards from shore. LAKE MICHIGAN Search for kayaker set to resume near Waukegan METROPOLITAN DIGEST Lawyers for five men who have accused a prominent Jesuit priest of molesting them as minors announced Monday that at least 10 families have come forward with similar allegations over the last five decades, including five who are not named in any criminal or civil complaints. Correspondence between families and Jesuit leaders, released by lawyers Monday, appears to reveal a trail of allegations against Rev.

Donald McGuire dating to 1969. McGuire, 77, was convicted last year in Wisconsin of molesting two boys in the 1960s. A 21-year-old man filed suit in August alleging abuse from 1999 to 2003. Last week two brothers from Arizona sued, saying the priest had abused them as children from 1988 to 2002. Two days later, the head of the Chicago Jesuits apologized for not doing enough to prevent abuse but declined to say whether steps are being taken to remove Mc- Guirefrom the priesthood.

A hearing is scheduled in Walworth County, on Thursday. CHICAGO More allegations target Jesuit priest A former Chicago police officer sentenced to 5 years in prison for assault with serious injury in Iowa reported for prison Monday in that state. Michael will be held in a prison reception center until authorities decide where he will be incarcerated, a process that could take several weeks. Mette was sentenced last July for the 2005 incident in Dubuque, Iowa, where he struck a man in the face after being pushed several times. The incident occurred after Mette and several friends left a house party and got involved in an altercation with two men living in the house, according to the opinion written by District Court Judge Monica Ackley.

The victim, according to the opinion, was into the of Mette, and pushed him two or three times while screaming at him. IOWA Ex-Chicago cop starts 5-year prison sentence Chromium Nightclub on the Near West Side will close Dec. 3after its owner agreed to the revocation of several licenses, city officials said Monday. After two years of efforts by the Department of Business Affairs and Licensing, the nightclub at 817 W. Lake St.

agreed to have its public place of amusement, tavern and retail food and tobacco licenses voluntarily revoked, the department said. Two violations by the club made up the case for revocation, said Efrat Dallal Stein, department spokeswoman. It is illegal for the owner, who is married to someone who is ineligible to hold a liquor license, to have one; and the club had violated happy- hour ordinances, Stein said. Also, residents near thenightclub had grown increasingly concerned about fighting, outside the club, she said. NEAR WEST SIDE Nightclub is giving in on city licensing fight A 19-year-old driver was killed and his passenger critically injured Monday morning when the car in which they were riding collided with a van, then slammed into a utility pole on the Northwest Side, police said.

The impact of the crash threw both of them out of the car, a 1989 Ford Escort, which had been reported stolen, said Sgt. Maurice McCaster of the major accident investigation unit. The accident occurred about 5 a.m. at Fullerton and Western Avenues in the Logan Square neighborhood. The driver, John Rileyof the 2900 block of North Newcastle Avenue, was pronounced dead on the scene, authorities said.

His male passenger was reported in grave condition in Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, McCaster said. CHICAGO Teen killed, passenger hurt in NW Side crash By Judith Graham Tribune staff reporter In Europe, the intervention is known as and Search for every source of drug-resistant bacteria coming into a hospital and destroy opportunities for the su- perbugs to spread. how countries from the Netherlands to England have battled the growing threat posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and brought soaring infection rates under control. Now, Loyola University Health System and three local VeteransAffairsfacilities are embracing the tactic. Come November, Loyola will start testing all hospital patients for MRSA and taking aggressive steps to prevent its trans- mission.Hines VA Hospital near Maywood and the North Chicagoand Jesse Brown VA Medical Centers implemented known as for MRSA at the end of September.

a safety decision: We want to do in the best interest of our said Dr. Paul Whelton, chief executive, who announced the new policy Monday. The fourhealth facilities are implementing similar strategies. Every patient admitted to Loyola or the VAfa- cilities will get a nasal swab from a nurse. The swabs will be sent to a laboratory for a DNA test to determine if MRSA is present.

The goal is to find patients who carry the bug without knowing itand who are at high risk of becoming infected when they undergo surgery or other invasive procedures. These patients can easily transmit the bacteria to others. Patients testing positive for MRSAwill be placed in a private room, and medical staff will be required to wear disposable gowns and gloves and follow strict hand-washing regimens. Only one other institution in the Chicago area has a similar policy: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare has been checking all patients at its three hospitals for MRSA and taking vigorous steps to combat the bacteria since 2005. Dr.

John Jernigan, a MRSA expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that universal screening was in the U.S. and that evidence supporting it was limited. But concern over MRSA is mounting, fueled by new data from the CDC showing that invasive infections caused by the bacteria strike nearly 94,000 people every year and kill about 19,000. How best to combat the bacteria remains a much-debated question. The CDC advises hospitals to institute strict hygiene standards and focus on disinfecting potentially contaminated areas.

If that work, the agency recommends that hospitals test patients and take measures to reduce transmission. randomized peer-reviewed studies have been published which show the benefit of screening all patients for said Dr. Gordon Trenholme, director of infectious disease at Rush University Medical Center, in an e-mail. But numerous reports from the field suggest screening doeslower MRSA infection rates. Super-staph fight spreading 4 more hospitals to screen patients to detect MRSA Tribune photo by Antonio Perez Perry Drake (center) volunteers to let nurse Cheiri Finke take a nasal swab Monday during a demonstration of MRSA screening at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.

Tribune photo by Chuck Berman Demonstrators pour out for tax protest Tina Feldstein joins U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (center) and other politicians emptying water bottles at a tax protest Monday on the Michigan Avenue bridge over the Chicago River. The Tea rally targeted tax-hike plans in Cook County and Chicago.

In the city, a bottled-water tax has been proposed. By Matthew Walberg Tribune staff reporter As shadows pooled in the Sauk Trail Woods Forest Preserve before nightfall Monday, the family of a missing Chicago Heights woman waited for the last few searchers to emerge from the woods. dying for her on the said Jessie Ledezma, her face tight with worry as she clutched a flier with a picture and the physical description of her sister Alma Mendez. see these missing persons stories on TV and you hope nothing like this ever happens to your family. And now it Mendez, 39, of the 300 block of West 14th Place, has been missing since about 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, when she drove to the forest preserve in nearby South Chicago Heights to jog as she did nearly every day. That evening, when she did not answer a call from her teenage son, her other sister, Maria Lopez, went to the park, where she and her husband found 2005 Ford Freestyle sport-utility vehicle parked and locked. They drove around the 4-mile bike path, calling for herbut found nothing. The family filed a missing persons report and by 8 p.m. Sunday dozens of officers from the Cook County Forest Preserve police and surrounding police departments joined the family in combing the woods.

They stopped searching about 3:30 a.m. Monday, then resumed at daybreak with dogs and a helicopter. They found no sign of Mendez, who is an office manager for a Steger dental practice. Chicago Heights police are investigating the circumstances of her disappearance, while the forest preserve police are organizing the search effort. Detectives have interviewed her family, including her estranged husband.

Just weeks ago, the mother of three had separated from Conrad Mendez, her husband of 19years. As of Monday night, there was no evidence of foul play, said Chicago Heights Police Lt. Michael Romano. Ledezma said her sister seemed in good spirits Sunday afternoon. talked with her for about 15 minutes while she drove over to the Ledezma said.

sounded fine, talking about how she was out from her job, and what she was going to do the rest of the Mendez is 4 foot 11 and 120 pounds. She was last seen wearing a navy sweatshirt and jogging pants, with red and white Skecher brand shoes. Anyone with information is asked to call Chicago Heights police at 708-756-6400. Woman disappears during run in woods Mendez much their mother loved them and how she would never intentionally leave them. Greenberg said the children tried to change the subject.

that, Craig turned off the ringer to his phone and accepting Greenberg said. sisters do not have the cell phone numbers. There is no way for us to contact them On Thursday, the daughter called Bouma, who toldthe girl about a prayer vigil planned for Tuesday to mark the six-month point since her disappearance on April 30. Bouma also spoke with Craig Stebic, inviting him to attend the event, just a few yards from the home he shared withhis wife on Red Star Drive. Greenberg said Stebic gave reasons why he could not attend the vigil.

Saturday, he spoke to husband, saying he want them around the she said. want them to try and call them or visit Greenberg said Stebic told By Jo Napolitano Tribune staff reporter Lisa estranged husband, described by police as a person of interest in her disappearance six months ago, has cut off all communication between his children and his sisters, family members said Monday. The family has long feared Craig Stebic would sever those relationships, said Melanie Greenberg, cousin. He had barred her parents from the Plainfield home and had not al- lowedhis wife ortheir children, ages 11 and 12, to speak to them for the last two years, she said. When they attended parties for extended family members, the children were not permitted to speak to their grandparents, who often were standing in the same room, Greenberg said.

She could not explain why. sisters, Debbie Ruttenberg and Jamie Bouma, last saw the children alone about five weeks ago, after a fundraiser in Joliet. The women told the children how his family that the children were upset by fliers hung throughout the neighborhood, and the billboards in Illinois and near their cabin in Upper Peninsula, alerting passersby to disappearance. Lisa Stebic was getting a divorce when she vanished. Her husband was the last person to see her.

He has denied any involvement in her disappearance. He could not be reached for comment Monday and has routinely denied media requests for interviews. His attorney, Dion Davi, said he did not know anything about Stebic shutting out his family. Plainfield Police Chief Donald Bennett said his departmentis working with the office, pressing to set up an interview with the children by calling them in front of a grand jury. Craig Stebic has not allowed authorities to speak with the children since early in the investigation.

Stebic accused of cutting off family Lisa Stebic family photo Lisa Stebic (from left) with her sisters, Jamie Bouma and Debbie Ruttenberg, in March, the month she disappeared. Kin of missing wife say dad limits kids Product: CTMETRO PubDate: 10-30-2007 Zone: Edition: HD Page: METROP3-3 User: mmccann Time: Color:.