National and Local News

CHICAGO – A woman opened her apartment door to leave and almost tripped over a newborn girl that someone abandoned in an unheated hallway during the bitter cold Monday night in the North Side’s Uptown neighborhood. At 8:35 p.m., the infant was discovered outside the woman’s apartment door, which is inside the vestibule of the […]

FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday. Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore […]

CHICAGO – High winds and blowing snow, bitter cold temperatures and wind chills approaching 30 below zero — that’s what’s in store for the Chicago area Sunday and Monday. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory and a wind chill advisory for northern Illinois and northwest Indiana. So bundle up, put on […]

FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS A teenager was fatally shot and two other people were wounded Saturday night in the South Side’s Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood. Andre Stephens, 17, of the 5700 blcok of South Racine Avenue, was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County at 5:26 a.m. Sunday, according to the Cook County […]

There has been a rollover in the grand prize for the multistate Mega Millions lottery — to $22 million. The rollover occurred because no player matched all the winning numbers from Friday night’s $16 million drawing. The winning numbers from Friday night’s drawing were: three, 13, 16, 39, and 54. The Mega Ball number was […]

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—- President-elect Barack Obama’s team and congressional staff are scrambling to come up with details of a plan to pump up the droopy economy with $650 billion or more in government spending over the next few years. The aides met in the basement of the Capitol on Friday to devise ways to […]

This is DJ Special Blend from Chicago. Now they saying that Jr. is a snitch? What the fuck? How they gone play dude? Eurweb.com said earlier Jesse Jackson Jr. has been acting as an informant for the F.B.I. for years against Ron Blagojevich. They say that Blagojevich tried to hit Jr. up for a $25,000 […]

This is DJ Special Blend from Chicago. So, lemme get this right… they’re saying that dude was planning on taking money from Barak and them to put Jesse Jackson Jr. in the Senate? Ain’t that something? It is… or maybe at least it was Rod’s call to make. I wanted him to pick Jr., but […]

CHICAGO – Arthur Cepulcha, 18, of the 8200 block of South Nashville Avenue in Burbank and Adam Skora, also 18, of the 5500 block of West 85th Street were killed about 9:30 p.m. in the 6600 block of West 107th Street. Cepulcha was driving, authorities said. Four others were seriously hurt in the single-vehicle crash per […]

Chicago’s own Common, a popular Hip-Hop MC and actor, claims that Hip-Hop will be different now that President elect Barak Obama is going to take office. Pr-inside.com reports that Common insists the public was getting tired of rappers writing about guns. Says Common, “I really do believe we, as hip-hop artists, pick up what’s going […]