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A U.S. Postal Service employee is facing federal fraud charges after prosecutors say she wrongfully pocketed inflated workers’ compensation benefits she didn’t qualify for — a case the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois revealed last month.

National Guard troops are set to hit the streets of Memphis on Friday-just a day after a federal judge in Illinois slammed the brakes on their deployment in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.