The captain of the Wilkes Barre/Scranton AHL hockey team was charged with indecent exposure after a police officer saw him running naked on a downtown street early Sunday, and a teammate was arrested for public drunkenness. Nathan Smith told the officer he acted on a bet.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a “reminder” to Iran, but he said it’s not an escalation of force.
An adult and two teens face murder charges in connection with a break-in during which a houseguest fatally shot a 14-year-old intruder in self-defense. Police say Travis Castle of Durand was shot after breaking into a home April Sixth near the northern Illinois village of Stillman Valley. (more…)
New York Daily news: ‘Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds, a reported backer of Hillary Clinton’s campaign…’ (h/t Errol Louis)
U.S. News & World Report: Not once in more than 40 years has an incumbent Wisconsin Supreme Court justice lost an election—not, that is, until this week, when a business-backed circuit judge narrowly defeated the first African-American to serve on the state’s highest court.
South Missourian report: ‘Joshua Kezer, now 32, … was an 18-year-old living in Kankakee, Ill., at the time when the victim, a nursing student, was found shot to death in her car at the northbound exit ramp of Interstate 55 near Benton, Mo.’
Columbiatribune.com report: Family members of three Kansas City residents killed in a 2006 wreck on Interstate 70 in Callaway County reached an $18 million settlement Friday in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Michigan-based trucking firms.The family members were driving in a Ford Five Hundred to a 50th wedding anniversary celebration in Kankakee, Ill.
Opal M. Frey, 89, of Chebanse, died Saturday at Provena Our Lady of Victory in Bourbonnais.
Aaron A. Louis, 89, of Sun City, Ariz., formerly of Kankakee, died Monday in Sun City.
ST. LOUIS - Bruce Pitts had a feeling something was wrong when the newspapers began piling up in the roadside tube outside the southern Illinois home of Fred and Blanche Roberts.
So on Sunday, the worried newspaper carrier cracked open an unlocked side door and saw 84-year-old Blanche Roberts helplessly looking back at him, her right leg pinned beneath the body of her 77-year-old husband — who apparently had been dead for days. (more…)
