LAS VEGAS (AP) — A police officer’s badge may have saved his life when it stopped a bullet during an exchange of gunfire in North Las Vegas.
Police say the 31-year-old officer was patrolling just before 10 p.m. Saturday when he heard shots being fired in an apartment complex.
While investigating, the officer came upon a person [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa - A 12-year-old boy was charged Friday with murder and other counts in a shooting that killed his stepfather and wounded a girl in Iowa.
Authorities responded to a shooting Wednesday afternoon in Chariton, about 40 miles south of Des Moines. When they arrived at the white farmhouse south of town, they found [...]
TUCUMCARI, N.M. (AP) — Tracks in the snow leading from a crashed car to the nearby bridge overpass on New Mexico’s I-40 just didn’t look right to officers.State police say that officers patrolling the stretch near Tucumcari Saturday found that 40-year-old Henry Alan of El Paso had lost control of his sedan and crashed into [...]
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani army said Sunday that it was investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike in mid-January.
The army’s announcement came shortly after Pakistani state television reported that Mehsud died in Orakzai, an area in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region where he was reportedly [...]
The City of Chicago says it’s offering free tax preparation help for eligible individuals at several sites throughout the city.
City officials also urge eligible residents to apply for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. The idea is to help those who are struggling in the recession.
The Earned Income Tax Credit gives refunds up to about [...]
A fifth teen has been charged in the beating death of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert, authorities said tonight.Lapoleon Colbert, 19, was charged today with first-degree murder in connection to the Sept. 24 death in front of a Roseland community center, according to Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Colbert, [...]
Chicago’s legendary Maxwell Street market is being managed by the city — with a more lenient approach to vendors — now that the Daley administration has terminated its $850,000-a-year contract with JAM Productions.
In 2008, Maxwell Street merchants alleged during a town hall meeting that they were being racially harassed and threatened with eviction and deportation.
Hispanic [...]
WONDER LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in the northwestern Chicago suburb of Wonder Lake said a persistent house cat probably saved the lives of a couple in a house fire. Assistant Chief Mike Weber of the Wonder lake Fire Protection District said the fire broke out shortly after midnight Monday in the bedroom of a [...]
