CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 39-year-old woman was fatally shot in front of her southwest side residence this evening after trick-or-treating with three young children.
CHICAGO (AP) — George Ryan went to the nation’s highest court Wednesday with his fast-fading hopes of staying out of a windblown federal prison camp in Minnesota where inmates mop the floors and clean toilets.
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Authorities said Wednesday they are looking again at the 2004 drowning death of a woman whose ex-husband — a 53-year-old suburban Chicago police sergeant — says his current wife is missing.
Leona E. Luecke, 96, of Danforth, formerly of Woodworth, died Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced an 11th-hour recall Wednesday to warn consumers that fake Halloween teeth sold by the tens of thousands since last year contain excessive amounts of lead.
CHICAGO (AP) — Saying it is time for former Gov. George Ryan to start his prison sentence, a federal appeals court canceled his bond Wednesday and left a last-ditch plea to the U.S. Supreme Court as his only hope.
WASHINGTON - Toys “R” Us recalled about 16,000 Chinese-made Elite Operations toys because of lead contamination, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Wednesday.
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Gov. George Ryan’s request to remain free on bond while he asks the U.S. Supreme Court to take his case was denied by a federal appeals court Wednesday, meaning he likely will have to go to prison next week.
Ryan still had a faint chance of getting his bond extended by the Supreme Court and was expected to make that request quickly.
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Cpl. Joseph E. Stevenson III, 20, of Downers Grove, and grandson of a Kankakee resident, died Sunday (Oct. 28, 2007) at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
