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Images show driver leaving car with weapon moments before he was shot and killed by police

By Jake Griffin
Mar 21, 2025 8:15 am - Aurora police released still images from officers’ body-worn cameras that show the moments before they opened fire on a 19-year-old driver who was exiting the vehicle with a weapon.
‘Turn that weapon into a paperweight’: Can a suburban tech company’s drone stop mass shootings?

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Mar 21, 2025 5:30 am - If the answer to a bad guy with a gun isn’t a good guy with a gun, how about a good guy with a drone that disables the gun? That’s the idea behind the Close Quarter Drone, the brainchild of a pair of suburban business owners who say their high-tech device could end a mass shooting long before law enforcement has a chance to respond.
‘A spiral effect’: 40% service cuts estimated if Metra, Pace, CTA veer over the fiscal cliff

By Marni Pyke
Mar 21, 2025 5:00 am - Transit funding shortfall could mean halving Metra service, but one suburban lawmaker says he won’t approve “a dime” without reforms.
Judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data

By Maegan Vazquez
Mar 20, 2025 10:32 pm - A federal judge on Thursday barred U.S. DOGE Service employees from accessing sensitive Social Security Administration data and ordered members of the team led by Elon Mu...
American prisoner released by Taliban after first high-level U.S. visit

By Rick Noack
Mar 20, 2025 9:45 pm - U.S. citizen George Glezmann has been released by the Taliban after 2½ years in captivity, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement Thursday. Glezmann, an airli...
Judge orders that Georgetown researcher detained by ICE remain in the U.S.

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Teo Armus
Mar 20, 2025 9:39 pm - A federal judge on Thursday ordered that a Georgetown University fellow working in the United States legally and detained by immigration authorities cannot be removed fro...
Lincolnshire-Riverwoods fire district seeks voter approval to borrow $25M for new station

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Mar 20, 2025 9:38 pm - Voters in the Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District will decide April 1 whether the district can borrow $25 million to build a new fire station and strengthen local emergency services.
White House rescinds executive order targeting prominent law firm after it makes deal

By ERIC TUCKER
Mar 20, 2025 8:45 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent international law firm after it pledged to review its hiring practices ...
Lutnick urges Fox News viewers to buy Tesla stock, raising ethics questions

By Justine McDaniel and Sabrina Rodriguez
Mar 20, 2025 8:43 pm - Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged Fox News viewers Wednesday night to buy Tesla stock, an apparent violation of federal ethics rules that prohibit officials from en...
Interior to open millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining

By Jake Spring
Mar 20, 2025 8:22 pm - The Interior Department on Thursday announced that it aims to open up millions of acres of near-pristine land in Alaska to oil drilling and allow for a new pipeline to be...

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