Mayor Brandon Johnson chooses 7 members to serve on Chicago’s permanent police oversight commission The president and vice president of Chicago’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability on Tuesday are among Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choices to serve on the permanent panel responsible ... 05/1/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
All April homicide victims in Chicago area, including 9-year-old girl, honored with vigil A vigil was held Saturday for a little girl killed in a recent mass shooting and all victims of homicide in Chicago this month. Members of various religious communities gather on the last Saturday of ... 04/27/2024 - 3:57 pm | View Link
Violent Robbery Spree Strikes Downtown Chicago, Multiple Victims Hospitalized in Overnight Crime Wave A series of violent armed robberies occurred overnight in downtown Chicago, injuring three and affecting at least eight individuals. 04/25/2024 - 4:11 pm | View Link
Most of Chicago’s mass shootings involve young victims Since 2010, more than half – 53% – of mass shootings in Chicago have involved at least one victim younger than 20, shows a WBEZ analysis. 04/23/2024 - 8:08 am | View Link
12-year-old girl, 2 teens among victims in Oak Forest shooting that left man dead A 12-year-old girl and two teens were among four people shot in an incident that spanned multiple scenes in Oak Forest Sunday evening and left at least one man dead, authorities said Monday. 04/21/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Link
Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is a massive book, in more ways than one. A 742-page social novel with an iconoclastic Atlanta real estate mogul at its center, it took Wolfe over a decade to research and write. When it was published, in 1998, Farrar, Straus & Giroux ordered a jaw-dropping initial print run of 1.2 million hardcover copies; two years later, it had sold 1.4 million.
Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after violence broke out, Catherine Hamilton and three colleagues from the Daily Bruin suddenly found themselves surrounded by demonstrators who beat, kicked and sprayed them with a noxious chemical.
On American campuses awash in anger this spring, student journalists are in the center of it all, sometimes uncomfortably so.
Brent Terhune is back and he's talking about Governor Puppy Killer, aka Kristi Noem. He says that Puppy Killer did a good thing and saved countless lives because you can't have a little baby Cujo running around scooting on the carpet, chewing on a shoe you left out or doing other puppy things.
It’s been more than 50 years since Columbia University became the site of student demonstrations amid unrest over the Vietnam War, but the spirit of protest on campus remains strong.
Late Tuesday night, dozens of protestors sieged Hamilton Hall—the iconic site of numerous student occupations over the course of history—and unfurled a banner to reveal the building’s new name by protestors: “Hind’s Hall.” The designation was in honor of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli troops in Gaza.
Student protests over the ongoing conflict in Gaza have become a thorny issue for President Joe Biden and many Democrats, drawing attention to his Administration’s stance on Israel and highlighting divisions within the party.
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The protests, which have erupted on campuses like Columbia University and UCLA, present a delicate balancing act for Biden as he navigates the complexities of U.
The first calls that Dr. Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners worried about crows, pigeons and other birds dying on their Texas farms. Then came word that barn cats — half of them on one farm — had died suddenly.
Within days, the Amarillo veterinarian was hearing about sick cows with unusual symptoms: high fevers, reluctance to eat and much less milk.