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1 day agoReport: Officer recorded kissing Chicago chief reassignedA Chicago police official has confirmed that a female officer who was reportedly caught on video kissing then-Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson at a downtown restaurant...
1 day agoHeart transplant patient dies after Chicago hospital weddingA 23-year-old man who underwent two heart transplants as a teenager has died in hospice care, days after he married his high school sweetheart in a Chicago hospital chape...
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1 day agoSC court: Prosecutor's remarks in murder trial 'improper'The South Carolina Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction of a man in prison for 13 years because a prosecutor suggested in his closing argument that all defe...
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2 days agoJudge dismisses lawsuit in John Dillinger exhumation caseA judge has dismissed a lawsuit a relative of 1930s gangster John Dillinger filed against an Indianapolis cemetery that opposes his plans to exhume Dillinger’s gravesite ...
2 days agoCollege students take aim at 19th Century editor's statueSome Georgia State University students are demanding that Atlanta's mayor remove a prominent statue of Henry Grady from downtown
2 days agoSpaceX delays space station delivery due to high windSpaceX has delayed its delivery to the International Space Station because of dangerous wind gusts
3 days agoGlobal carbon pollution continues to rise, but more slowlyA new study finds that global carbon pollution continues to rise, but it’s not increasing as fast as the previous couple years
3 days ago25 jail officers indicted, accused of using excessive forceAuthorities say 25 correctional officers have been indicted on charges they used excessive force on prisoners at state-operated jails in the city
3 days agoDomingo’s accusers: Nothing ‘chivalrous’ about groping womenWomen who accused Placido Domingo of sexual misconduct say his failure to take responsibility or express remorse is disappointing and disturbing
3 days agoAsylum seekers jam US border crossings to evade Trump policyAsylum seekers desperate to enter the U.S. have started to spring down vehicle lanes or rent cars at border crossings to try to avoid the Trump policy that prohibits them...
3 days agoGun background checks are on pace to break record in 2019Background checks on gun purchases in the U.S. are climbing toward a record high this year
3 days agoBlack victims underrepresented in named violent crime lawsAn Associated Press analysis has found that so-called namesake laws overwhelmingly are passed in honor of white victims, leaving black crime victims underrepresented
3 days agoEx-chief says he didn’t intentionally ‘deceive’ anyoneTwo Chicago newspapers citing sources they’re not identifying are reporting that the city’s fired police chief was having drinks with a woman for hours the night officers...
3 days agoJimmy Carter ‘feeling better’ after latest hospitalizationA spokeswoman for Jimmy Carter says the former U.S. president is already feeling better after being treated for a urinary tract infection
