CHICAGO, IL – The principal of a school that’s part of a federal probe into admissions practices at the city’s elite public high schools said today that she has testified before a grand jury. Whitney Young Principal Joyce Kenner declined to provide details of her two-hour testimony before the grand jury last week. “I have ...
National and Local NewsCHICAGO, IL – Police were questioning a suspect in the Wednesday night shooting of a 13-year-old boy in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood. The teen suffered three bullet wounds, one to the face, as he stood in the 2000 block of North Pulaski Road, near the intersection of Armitage Avenue and Pulaski Road about 10 ...
National and Local NewsNEW HAVEN, Conn. – Family members have canceled the wedding of a Yale University graduate student who vanished days before the New York nuptials as more than 100 investigators scrambled for clues to her disappearance. Annie Le, a 24-year-old doctoral student from Placerville, Calif., was set to get married Sunday at the North Ritz Club ...
National and Local NewsCHICAGO, IL – A man was found shot and critically wounded this morning in the Chicago Lawn area of the Marquette Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, police said. About 3:15 a.m., police were called to an apartment in the 3100 block of West 66th Street and found the man with multiple gunshot wounds to ...
National and Local NewsCHICAGO, IL – A motorcyclist was taken to a hospital this evening after being involved in a crash with another vehicle in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. The crash occurred at about 5:30 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. The motorcyclist was taken to Stroger Hospital in “very critical condition,” ...
National and Local NewsIt’s the parents with a child in Iraq who are supposed to worry about bad news, not the other way around. But when Chris Ferguson stepped off a military plane at Fort Carson, Colo., early Thursday morning after a year’s deployment in Iraq, he was the one learning of tragedy. His parents, Donnie and Carole ...
National and Local NewsLOS ANGLES, CA -The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says a man has died after a deputy shocked him three times with an electric stun gun at a subway station. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore says the man, who was not immediately identified, was at the North Hollywood Red Line station Wednesday night when a deputy ...
National and Local NewsEdward “Ted” Kennedy1932-2009
Headlines, National and Local NewsLOS ANGELES – Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture. A photo on the Redmond-based company’s U.S. marketing Web site microsoft.com shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at ...
National and Local NewsEdward “Ted” Kennedy, the iconic Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who raised a strong liberal voice to American politics for the past four decades, died Tuesday. He was 77. “Edward M. Kennedy – the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply – died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port,” his ...
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