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Graduate student gunned down in driveway at Dolton home

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:41 PM PST

Brother found body in family's driveway in Dolton

At only 21, Olubusayo Awomolo was so focused on obtaining his master's degree in mechanical engineering that he hardly did anything besides go to class and study, his father said.

Stroger spent $79,000 on zoo party for flood victims

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 05:05 PM PST

Some Cabrini residents refuse to leave

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PST

The Chicago Housing Authority tried today to move the last residents out of the last occupied high-rise at the Cabrini-Green public housing complex, but some families balked at leaving, officials said, likely sending the matter to court.

State House approves civil unions measure

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:30 PM PST

Chico, Emanuel offer ethics ideas in Chicago mayoral race

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:06 PM PST

Aurora to lay off 8 cops to help close $18 million budget gap

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:05 PM PST

Illinois House approves police, fire pension reforms

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:40 PM PST

Bank of America shares fall on WikiLeaks speculation

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:14 PM PST

Bank of America Corp. stock fell Tuesday afternoon on speculation that it might be the target of a WikiLeaks document release early next year.

Family: Man killed in Dolton driveway was, 'all academics'

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 05:20 PM PST

Senate passes food safety bill

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 10:57 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday to make food safer in the wake of deadly E. coli and salmonella outbreaks, potentially giving the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food.

Obama, congressional leaders launch tax-cut talks

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:28 AM PST

Both the president and GOP congressional leaders express hope they can find common ground on the thorny issue. White House aides and Capitol Hill representatives will seek a compromise by year's end.

President Obama and congressional leaders called their first meeting since the midterm elections a frank but productive initial discussion of the issues before them, each expressing hope that common ground could be reached on the thorniest debate: the fate of tax rates set to expire next month.

U.S. scrambles to contain WikiLeaks damage

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 10:00 PM PST

Clinton and other officials shrug off the undiplomatic assessments revealed in the diplomatic cables, saying they won't affect long-term ties, even as they promise to tighten security and punish the culprits.

The massive leak of secret diplomatic cables sent a tremor from Washington through world capitals Monday, exposing deception and scheming that world leaders take great pains to keep private and complicating some of America's most sensitive strategic relations.

Pentagon survey says resistance to gays diminished

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:36 AM PST

Seventy percent of military personnel and their families see 'positive' to no effects if 'don't ask, don't tell' were repealed. But many of those in combat units predict negative results.

WASHINGTON — Permitting gay people to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces has a low risk of harming military readiness, though it could cause "limited and isolated disruption" in some units, according to a major study by a Pentagon task force charged with examining the effect of the "don't ask, don't tell" law.

DNA samples ordered in NIU student slaying case

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:32 AM PST

Medical marijuana measure fails in Illinois House

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 10:50 PM PST

Cops: Suspect returned to make sure cop, ex-CHA officer were dead

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:50 AM PST

After he gunned down a Chicago officer and a former public housing officer, Timothy Herring Jr. noticed one of them was still moving, authorities say, so he went back and shot each in the head a second time.

Grayslake cook charged with sexual assault inside restaurant

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:07 AM PST

Live now: Managing kids' food allergies at school

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:17 AM PST

4 dead in shooting at Missouri apartment complex

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:02 AM PST

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say four people have died in a shooting at an apartment complex in the eastern Missouri.

3 Mich. boys still missing; cops doubt 'positive' outcome

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:54 AM PST

Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday.