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Des Plaines to fight arbitrator’s ruling calling for fired cop’s reinstatement May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Des Plaines is going to fight a police arbitrator’s ruling that the city should reinstate former police officer John Bueno, who was fired in March 2012 for misconduct, officials said this week. “I think bringing him back would be incredibly detrimental to the police department and the city of Des Plaines,” Police Chief William Kushner said Tuesday.
Stolberg was trying to protect wife from herself, defense attorney tells jury May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Ronald Stolberg intentionally asphyxiated his wife in their Vernon Hills home in 2011 because she was bothering him while he was trying to sleep, a Lake County prosecutor told a jury Tuesday. However, defense attorney William Hedrick of Skokie explained during his opening statement Tuesday that Stolberg, 49, was trying to prevent his 54-year-old wife, Rachel, from hurting herself while she was having a mental breakdown on the hardwood floor of their home in the 300 block of Farmington Lane.
Three Brookfield Zoo dolphins expecting May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Chicago Zoological Society officials say three Brookfield Zoo bottlenose dolphins are pregnant. Officials said Monday that 26-year-old Allie, 31-year-old Tapeko and 10-year-old Spree are due to give birth this summer and fall. Allie has had two previous calves and Tapeko, three. But first-time mother Spree will require extra care as her pregnancy will have greater risks, as with other mammals.
Images: Aftermath of the Oklahoma tornado May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children.
Public education can be inclusive, diverse and unifying May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Glenbard High School District 87 Superintendent David Larson says he recently had the privilege of attending the end-of-the-year awards program for the English language learners (ELL) program at Glenbard North High School. "The evening’s activities," he writes, "reminded me again of the great role that our American public education system plays in our local communities, our society and our culture in general."
Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head.
WikiLeaks prosecutor accepts GI’s plea to 1 count May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Prosecutors say they will accept an Army private’s guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces. Maj. Ashden Fein said Tuesday that prosecutors had changed their minds about trying to convict Pfc. Bradley Manning with violating the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in connection with the release of a cable known as Reykjavik-13.
AP Sources: Obama OK punting gay immigration idea May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate. President Barack Obama backs the proposal to give equal treatment to gays and lesbians but is unlikely to veto a broad immigration bill that does not include the provision.
Arias tells jury what she’ll do if allowed to live May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Jodi Arias asked jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, arguing she “lacked perspective” when she told a local reporter in an interview after she was convicted of murder that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.
Jersey shore readies for 1st post-Sandy summer May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
The boardwalks are back, and so are most of the beaches, even if some are a little thinner this year. The smell of funnel cakes, french fries and pizza will mingle with the salt air, and the screech of seagulls will be heard, but so will the thwack of hammers repairing what can be fixed and the roar of bulldozers and backhoes tearing down what can’t. Welcome to Summer 2013 at the Jersey shore.
Schaumburg Trustee Frank Kozak and wife survive Oklahoma tornado May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
A fallen water heater may have been all that saved Schaumburg Village Trustee Frank Kozak and his wife, Char, when the home they were visiting in Oklahoma City disappeared around them as a massive tornado passed through the city and its suburbs Monday.
Cat dies in Elgin fire May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
A pet cat died a residential fire early Tuesday morning in Elgin that caused an estimated $140,000 in damages, fire officials said.
$In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa., the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”$
Ill. House committee OKs fracking regulatory bill May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
An Illinois House committee has OK’d a measure to regulate high-volume oil and gas drilling in the state. The House Executive Committee voted 11-0 Tuesday to move to the full House a bill meant to kick-start hydraulic fracturing, “or fracking” in southern Illinois.
DuPage photographers go wild in this week’s contest May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Each week’s DuPage County Neighbor section includes at least one entry in our Photo Finish contest. Our photo staff picks some of their favorite submissions to run each week and then one overall monthly winner. This week’s entries all focus on wildlife of some sort, from giant ants that have invaded the Morton Arboretum in Lisle to sea lions in the Galápagos Islands.
More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts.
Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma town May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of “one of the most destructive” storms in the nation’s history.
Images: St. Francis High School graduation May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Images from the St. Francis graduation ceremony Sunday, May 19, 2013.
The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist? May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him.
Utah police close missing mom case after 3 years May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
Utah police announced they never had enough evidence to bring charges in the 2009 disappearance of Susan Powell and opened their books on the investigation. The tens of thousands of pages of documents depict an investigation that focused from its earliest days on husband Josh Powell, who killed himself and the couple's two young sons in an explosive house fire in Washington state last year.
Policy, discretion guide federal probes of media sources May 21, 2013 12:00 AM
The Justice Department's latest effort to examine whom journalists are talking to — the secret subpoena of Associated Press phone records from April and May of last year — demonstrates how government investigators are guided more by policy and the judgments of high-ranking officials than by specific laws or, in this case, the need to satisfy an independent federal judge.