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Newspaper company sues blogger for defamation

Shaw Newspapers, which owns the Newton Daily News, Creston News Advertiser and Osceola Sentinel-Tribune along with nine papers in northwest Illinois, is suing a blogger for defamatory comments he posted about the company’s business practices.
On his blog, McHenry County, Illinois-resident Cal Skinner Jr. alleged that Shaw’s largest newspaper, The Northwest Herald, received a multimillion dollar-loan [...]