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State crime lab reports more than 4,000 untested rape kits

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:13 PM PST

Police hope that backlog of unexamined sex crime cases can be erased by 2015

The Illinois crime lab has identified more than 4,000 cases of unexamined sex crime evidence statewide, and plans to test all of them by 2015, state officials said.

Arne Duncan: Feds taking ND assault complaints seriously

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:19 PM PST

Families of women critical of how university police handled investigations

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that his department takes "very seriously" concerns from two families that the University of Notre Dame failed to swiftly and fully investigate their daughters' accusations of being sexually attacked on campus.

United, American get earful from Daley over expansion delays

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:43 PM PST

City, airlines will head back to court next week unless settlement reached

Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday blasted the two airlines seeking to slow the expansion of O'Hare International Airport for lacking the vision to understand the future of their own industry.

Live blog: Final mayoral debate

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:40 PM PST

Wis. lawmakers flee state to block bill

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:01 PM PST

A group of Wisconsin Democrats blocked passage of a sweeping anti-union bill today by ignoring orders to attend a vote. They left the state to force Republicans to negotiate over the proposal. Aides said they did not know where any of them had gone.

Giordano's files for bankruptcy

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:40 PM PST

Planning panel OKs bike overpass for lakefront

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:47 PM PST

Loop streets reopened after reports of falling glass

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 01:12 PM PST

Chicago police have reopened Madison Street after reports that debris was falling from a Sears store at that location, police said.

At Pump Room, everything must go

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:16 PM PST

Memorabilia from the Ambassador East Hotel and the Pump Room — the Chicago restaurant that hosted the likes of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe — will be available to the public in a 12-day liquidation sale starting Friday.

Social Security computers back up

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:17 PM PST

The Social Security Administration's mainframe computers based in Maryland were back up this afternoon after being offline for several hours, a Chicago-based spokesman said.

Medicare fraud bust snags 111 in 9 cities

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 11:17 AM PST

MIAMI (AP) — Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history.

Fla. father accused of dousing son with toxic chemicals

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:19 PM PST

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man accused of dousing his 10-year-old son with a harmful chemical and loading his dead daughter in the back of his exterminator truck was held Thursday on $1 million bond and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.

O'Hare expansion lawsuit moves to trial

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:44 AM PST

Love me, love my jeans (The Newsroom)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:44 AM PST

The Newsroom - Girlfriends do it all the time - 'borrowing' their boyfriend's T-shirt/sweatshirt/button-down shirt. It's a romantic gesture, right? (Ex-girlfriends do it too, although they tend not to wear the shirt so much as use it to clean the toilet). But boyfriends …

Experian adds rent to reports

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:33 AM PST

Iowa high school wrestler defaults rather than face girl

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 07:00 AM PST

An Iowa high school wrestler has defaulted his state tournament match rather than face one of the first girls ever to qualify for the event.

Sheriff calls indigent burials 'appalling'; 26 babies in a box

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:00 AM PST

'Code' actor soaked up City Hall

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:24 PM PST

John Kass : Before the actor Delroy Lindo began playing a ruthlessly corrupt Chicago politician on Fox's "The Chicago Code," he spent some time at City Hall, watching quietly, sponging it all up. He studied the boss, Mayor Richard Daley, and his aldermen and their movements.

Sheriff calls indigent burials 'appalling'; 26 babies in a box

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 08:28 AM PST

Calling indigent burials in Cook County "appalling," Sheriff Thomas Dart today pushed for measures that would stop the practice of burying several people in one casket and would limit the number of bodies that can be stacked on top of each other.

Obama casts absentee vote in Chicago mayor race

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 08:24 AM PST

WASHINGTON — No word on who got his vote, but President Barack Obama has cast an absentee ballot in the Chicago mayor's race, according to the White House.