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Richard F. Wachter, sexual assault

More than 25 years after she was a victim of the first of multiple sexual assaults, a former Woodstock woman finally summoned the courage to file a complaint this past […]

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Richard F. Wachter, sexual assault

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Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.

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