National and Local News
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1932-2009
LOS 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 […]
Edward “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 […]
Cook County Forest Preserve police and agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday destroyed an elaborate marijuana-growing operation tucked away in a patch of woods in Palos Township. In all, authorities burned about 6,000 marijuana plants that were being cultivated in six fields along a stream in the Edward M. Sneed Forest Preserve […]
NEW YORK – The main terminal at New York’s LaGuardia Airport was evacuated Saturday morning, stranding hundreds of passengers, after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, police said. The terminal was evacuated at around 5:30 a.m. Saturday after the man approached security in the airport’s C concourse, Port Authority […]
CHICAGO, IL – At least 15 people were wounded in shootings on the South and West Sides Tuesday night and early this morning, according to police. The attacks included the shooting of seven people in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, the shooting of two people in the Little Village neighborhood and the shooting of a […]
CHICAGO, IL – Eight members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc are suing their National President for the misuse of the organizations fund’s. Members of a prominent Chicago-based sorority are suing to oust their national president — former Chicago Housing Authority comptroller Barbara McKinzie — saying she misappropriated funds and commissioned a $900,000 wax figure […]
CHIACGO, IL – A 25-year-old man was shot in the back Saturday night while he was standing on a corner on the Near West Side, officials said. At about 9:40 p.m., police responded to shots fired in the 2400 block of West Adams Street, said Chicago Police News Affairs spokesman Robert Perez. The man was […]
CHICAGO, IL – Three people were shot at a block party in the West Englewood neighborhood this morning, police said. At about 1 a.m., police were called to a block party in the 7200 block of South Seeley Avenue, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez. At first, the police found one man with […]
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea has indicated its interest in holding direct talks with the United States, a news report said, after the two sides traded barbs over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programs at a security forum. “We are not against a dialogue. We are not against any negotiation for the issues of common concern,” […]