WGN- A young girl was shot and killed late Wednesday night in the North Austin neighborhood on the city’s West Side. Heaven Sutton, of North Luna Avenue, was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood where she was pronounced
(AP) Stockton official: Mediation with creditors failsBy GOSIA WOZNIACKAAssociated PressSTOCKTON, Calif.In opting to become the nation’s largest city to seek federal bankruptcy protection, this river port of 290,000 took a rare financial step of last resort after struggling with the
Major provisions of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 were held unenforceable by the Supreme Court because they conflict with federal law, though the Court unanimously upheld its most controversial provision. So the biggest immigration case in U.S. history was a mixed result,
One of the most fascinating things about Barack Obama’s first autobiography, Dreams From My Father, is not just the creation of fictitious girlfriends and black friends, such as “Regina” (who turns out to have been a partly-white “composite”), but the material Obama
While my colleague Joel Pollak suggests this morning that the Supreme Court “struck down the form – but not the substance” of Arizona’s immigration law, the truth seems to be the opposite: the Supreme Court defanged the Arizona law to
Occupy Chicago appears to be engaged in its own missing person investigation. It’s really no surprise, considering members’ disdain for law enforcement authorities. During NATO protests in Chicago, Occupy Chicago adopted the “Chicago Principles,” a code of conduct that prohibited
Latino workers’ union reacts to the Supreme Court’s ruling on illegal immigration saying the fight against racial profiling goes on. The court upheld part of the law requiring police check the status of anyone thought to be in the US
(Reuters) – Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky sought a mistrial before his conviction for child sex abuse on the grounds that prosecutors showed jurors an inaccurate version of a bombshell NBC News interview with the former football coach, and the mistake
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Jerry Sandusky trial was loaded with details of the child sex abuse a jury has now convicted the one-time Penn State assistant football coach of carrying out over 15 years, but it revealed little about
Mexico’s military on Thursday said it had captured the son of Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, dealing a major blow against the notorious crime syndicate run by this country’s most wanted man. The suspect believed to be
The New York Times Editorial Board and their editor, Andrew Rosenthal, thinkthe Operation Fast & Furious investigation is “a pointless partisan fight.” Their op-ed takes the position that one of the deadliest political scandals in American history has been blown
Due to a glitch in data hand-off when Bank of America acquired LaSalle Bank, a Detroit man was able to take overdrafts totalling $1.5 million before Bank of America caught the problem just 17 days later. Worse, the man, Ronald Page,
By GONZALO SOLANOAssociated PressQUITO, EcuadorEcuador’s foreign minister said Tuesday that WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Ecuador is weighing the request.
DANIEL WOOLLSAssociated PressSANT CLIMENT DE LLOBREGAT, SpainDrop those cherries, you’re under arrest. Crops and cops are converging along Spain’s journey through economic crisis: People enduring hardship are stealing the earth’s bounty from farmers to help get by from day to
Even as Chicago sent 100+ police officers to guard the wedding of Valerie Jarrett’s daughter, the city underwent a dramatic crime wave. According to local media, at least seven people were killed and 35 were injured over the weekend. One
As the Chicago Police Department was battling a rise in violent crimes and homicides, President Barack Obama played his 100th round of golf in Chicago this weekend while attending the wedding of Valerie Jarrett’s daughter, which forced the city to
Few crimes appall the general populace like those committed against children, the subject of a haunting new French film called “Polisse.” The cops who make up the child protection unit in Paris wade through these most reprehensible cases daily. And
Today, CNN featured a story centering around CNN contributor and RedState managing editor Erick Erickson, the latest victim in a series of incidents in which an imposter mimics the phone number of a target, then calls the police and confesses
Director Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece “Alien” quarantined audiences in a spaceship where seven crew members faced a threat not of this earth. “Prometheus,” the director’s sorta-kinda prequel to that landmark film, takes some “Alien” DNA and grows a franchise reboot
You can’t sue Secret Service agents if they arrest you for lying to them about antagonistically touching a public official, the Supreme Court held this week in a unanimous decision. Vice President Dick Cheney was at a shopping mall in
By KASIE HUNTAssociated PressWASHINGTONAuthorities are investigating whether Mitt Romney’s private email account was hacked. On Tuesday, the website Gawker reported that an anonymous hacker had signed into Romney’s personal Hotmail account. Gawker reported that the hacker guessed the answer to
DC Comics, which saw its “New 52” line premiere in 2011 as a relaunch of its series of superhero comic books fail to live up to expectations, is trying to increase its sales by making Green Lantern, one of the longest-running of
Today, Live Action released a second disturbing undercover video showing Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger clinic in New York City candidly counseling a woman on the “how to” of committing gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of her female unborn child. A Planned Parenthood employee
(AP) Wisconsin’s Walker raises $31M in face of recallBy SCOTT BAUERAssociated PressMADISON, Wis.Republican Gov. Scott Walker has raised about $31 million since he took office 17 months ago, including a remarkable $5.9 million in the last five weeks reported to
The $50 billion General Motors (GM) bailout was a Democrat Crony Socialist nightmare. The Obama Administration illegally over-rewarded its union friends and destroyed Republican-enemy auto dealers, to name but two facets of the titanic debacle. We the Taxpayers are still out $30+ billion on the
