National and Local News

CHICAGO, IL – A person was killed by a CTA bus as it pulled away from a stop on the Far South Side this yesterday, authorities said. The person, who had not been identified, had been standing on the sidewalk near a bus shelter near 95th Street and South Jeffery Avenue about 9:15 p.m. just […]

SCHAUMBURG, IL – I’m literally looking out the window this morning at helicopters flying by looking for escaped robber Robert Maday. Dude got away from five-oh yesterday, and was spotted this morning in Arlington Heights, and possibly Hoffman Estates. Turned on the TV and saw that they were still hot on his tail.  Next thing […]

CHICAGO, IL – Mayor Richard Daley today said he wants to see a tribute in “some way” to Walter Payton and is having Chicago Park District officials continue to meet with the family of the late Bears’ great to determine where and how. The family has suggested putting a statue outside Soldier Field, but park […]

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 […]

CHICAGO, 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 […]

NEW 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 […]

CHICAGO, 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 […]

CHICAGO, 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,” […]

It’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 […]

LOS 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 […]