As troubles for planners of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro continue to grow, organizers announced that due to budget cuts athletes won’t enjoy air conditioning in their rooms unless they, their sponsors, or their countries pay for the service ahead of time.
Before the smoke from the terror attack in San Bernardino had cleared, the liberal narrative was turned to an effort to make the murders into a means to attack Christians and those Republican candidates who had offered prayers for the victims and their families.
The Naval Academy and its fans are furious at ESPN for removing Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds from the mainpage of its online Heisman poll despite the fact that the Midshipman topped the survey.
A Chicago woman, who already had a record of child abuse, was arrested and charged with beating her 2-year-old daughter so badly that the girl later died. Police say the mother was upset that the child would not eat her noodles.
The case of a missing two-year-old has been worrying residents of Searcy, Arkansas, for over a year. But this week, police announced a break in the case, with the arrest on murder charges of the toddler’s own father.
Volvo Trucks North America has confirmed that it will be reducing production of several truck lines and will therefore be laying off 1 in 4 workers beginning in February of next year.
Even the New York Times is supporting the growing calls for the resignation of Chicago’s mayor and county prosecutor, following the year-long cover-up of the videotape which shows the unjustified shooting of a wounded black youth in October 2014.
As a list of altercations and accusations of misconduct off the court grows, insiders report that Philadelphia 76ers rookie Jahlil Okafor will be assigned a “body guard” to help keep him out of trouble when he goes out in public.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired his top cop, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, on Tuesday morning as the controversy over the 2014 shooting of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald continues to reverberate in the Windy City.
An electrical engineering student named Jabari R. Dean has been arrested for allegedly posting the online threats of violence that led to the cancellation of classes at the University of Chicago on Monday.
The Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 26-20 on Sunday to take their first Grey Cup since 2005, but even as fans celebrate the win critics protest the team’s name, calling it “racist” to use the Inuit people as “mascots.”
As the sixth day of protests over the police-involved shooting of a 17-year-old Chicago teen rages on, members of local NAACP chapters paraded a full-sized coffin outside Chicago’s City Hall, chanting phrases and joining in calls for both Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign their offices.
A couple with a history of giving big donations to the Salvation Army topped their past donations by dropping a check for $500,000 into a Red Kettle station in Minnesota, the organization reports.
The University of Chicago has canceled classes and activities for Monday at its Hyde Park campus due to an FBI warning of an “online threat of gun violence.”
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant announced his retirement from basketball effective at the end of the 2015-2016 campaign, saying that “this season is all I have left to give.”
University of Missouri assistant professor Youssif Zaghwani Omar was arrested after an altercation at a high school in Columbia, Missouri, where he physically attacked a 14-year-old girl for going to school without wearing a hijab, according to police.
A Chicago police investigation is revealing the last chilling minutes of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee’s life as a trio of gang members planned his murder.
A harsh winter storm is bringing icy roads and snow to the central western region hitting North Texas, South eastern Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The storm is causing heavy rains and cold temps to fan out north and east from Texas bringing a wet weekend for most of the south and midwest. Already over a dozen deaths have been blamed on the storm.
A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”
While the argument rages over when or even if the U.S. should accept Syrian refugees, Oakland A’s pitcher Sean Doolittle put actions to the test, not just words, by inviting 17 Syrian families to Thanksgiving dinner.
A Mississippi man was arrested and accused with attacking his parents, stabbing one and killing the other, because they brought home fast food but didn’t get him any, authorities say.
Chicago police have announced the arrest of one man and said that a warrant has been issued for another in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, a murder that saddened the city earlier this month.
The FBI has announced that starting next year it will be adding a new category to its crime statistics reporting and for the first time will begin tracking crimes of animal cruelty.
On Thursday thousands of Chicago residents had their Thanksgiving interrupted by a robocall featuring the voice of Jesse Jackson, Sr. and sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union urging Chicagoans to join them in disrupting the Windy City’s Black Friday shopping day downtown.
Chicago was subjected to a second night of protests after the release of police dashcam video depicting the 2014 shooting of an African American teen, with protesters fanning out beyond the planned protests and even destroying Christmas tree decorations while yelling “black lives matter” and “F*ck your Christmas tree!” Protesters are also threatening to shut down Black Friday shopping downtown.
