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STERLING - The race for Whiteside County state's attorney has become very hot, very fast: Monday, another local attorney added his name to the running. Elwin Neal, a 61-year-old Sterling resident with a 16-year tenure as an assistant public defender in Morrison, said he will seek the office in an effort to block newcomer Amy Huffman's write-in campaign to unseat incumbent State's Attorney Gary Spencer. Spencer is a Republican; so far neither Huffman nor Neal has aligned with a political party in this race. "If the public believes Mr. Spencer has indeed been prosecutor for too long," Neal said, he will serve one term "to give the community a chance to heal - and [for] time to pass so the community can find a new prosecutor." Neal's write-in