Ex-NBA player Rasual Butler, wife die in Los Angeles crash
Former NBA forward Rasual Butler and his wife were killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Los Angeles early Wednesday. The Range Rover crashed around 2:30 a.m. in the Studio City area and left a...
View ArticleBulls plan to sit Nikola Mirotic until trade can be worked out
Changing time zones didn’t make Nikola Mirotic’s Wednesday any less odd than his Tuesday. One day after rejecting a proposed trade to the Pelicans and flying here from Chicago, Mirotic participated in...
View ArticleLawmakers press social media companies on Russian links to #ReleaseTheMemo...
Social media companies continued to face pressure over exploitation of their platforms, as lawmakers on Wednesday chastised Facebook and Twitter for failing to explain the role pro-Russian accounts...
View ArticleBaranek: Former Evanston, H-F star Seun Adigun an Olympian for all seasons
A country. A continent. A family. A college. Two high schools. Thousands on Facebook and Twitter. The checklist of those who will be rooting for Seun Adigun at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in...
View ArticleLawsuit: Barrington firefighters unwittingly handled hazardous chemical after...
Barrington officials are suing a Canadian trucking company over the cleanup of a chemical spill last year, alleging firefighters unwittingly handled a hazardous chemical that damaged their equipment...
View ArticleNASA lost contact with a satellite 12 years ago. An amateur just found its...
NASA confirmed an incredible discovery Tuesday - that an amateur radio astronomer, on the hunt for a classified government satellite, stumbled upon signals from a spacecraft that had been thought lost...
View ArticleVallas asks whether Chicago 'trusts' Emanuel on city's finances
Sounding more and more like a candidate for mayor, former Chicago Public Schools chief Paul Vallas started criticizing Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday, saying the mayor was too slow to address the...
View ArticleOswego man charged with murder in Aurora triple shooting
Bail has been set at $5 million for an Oswego man charged with four first-degree murder counts for allegedly firing the shots that killed two men and seriously injured a third last March outside a bar...
View Article1 killed, 1 wounded in shootout at Far South Side home, 5 others wounded in...
A man has been killed and another wounded in a shootout at the Far South Side home and at least five other people, including a 16-year-old boy, have been wounded since mid-morning Wednesday in...
View ArticleICE formalizes plans for courthouse arrests
Federal immigration authorities formalized a policy Wednesday to send deportation agents to federal, state and local courthouses to make arrests, dismissing complaints from judges and advocacy groups...
View ArticleLawyer: Ammo dealer saw nothing suspicious in Vegas gunman
An Arizona man who sold ammunition to the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was disturbed that he didn't spot any suspicious signs about his one-time customer, the man's...
View ArticlePark District, private firm present updated plans for South Side golf course
The Chicago Park District presented an updated vision for merging the Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses at an open house Wednesday night, saying the latest design was modified based on...
View ArticleRauner tries to reframe with economic message, opponents say he's rewriting...
Coming off a year of bruising political defeats, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner delivered a State of the State speech Wednesday with an election-year message that economic progress is within reach with...
View ArticleJuarez high school guard charged with sex assault in relationship with teen girl
A Chicago Public Schools security guard at Benito Juarez high school in the Pilsen neighborhood has been charged with criminal sexual assault after having sex for months with a 17-year-old girl he...
View ArticleStudent, faculty leaders object to Michigan State's pick for interim president
John Engler, a former Republican governor and alumnus of Michigan State University, was named interim president Wednesday as the university struggles to move forward after a sexual abuse scandal - a...
View ArticleSuspect bomb at Merrionette Park shopping center turns out to be potato chip...
What police suspected was a pipe bomb instead was a potato chip can at a cigarette shop Wednesday in Merrionette Park, police said. Merrionette Park police Sgt. Jon Bruce said the device was not an...
View ArticleKim Foxx, Lisa Madigan among politicians who say in new book they endured...
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says in a new book that she was sexually harassed while working as a prosecutor and accuses her predecessor, Anita Alvarez, of failing to change a culture that...
View ArticleSchiff accuses Nunes of making secret changes to classified GOP memo before...
Rep. Devin Nunes “secretly altered” a classified and controversial memo about secret surveillance during the 2016 presidential campaign before he sent it to the White House for review, Rep. Adam...
View ArticleAfter missing on Stephon Gilmore, maybe Bears will target Malcolm Butler
Just as the Bears made a run at Janoris Jenkins in free agency two years ago, they pushed hard to sign Stephon Gilmore a year ago. It got close enough that they thought they had their man, a veteran...
View ArticleJudge says 265 people have come forward to say they were victims of Larry Nassar
Another wave of victims confronted Larry Nassar on Wednesday, this time about sexual abuse at an elite Michigan gymnastics club where young athletes felt they had to use the disgraced doctor's...
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