Prosecutors detailed allegations against two men who are being held on a $2 million bond each after being charged in the murder of a Highland Park father and business owner at Fort Sheridan Beach. Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Dillon said Matthew Ascaridis, 45, called 911 around 12:54 a.m. on September 17 to report [...]
AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Aurora’s interim police chief, Art Acevedo, spoke frankly about his frustration with youth violence in and around his city at a news conference Saturday night. The conference followed a deadly shooting that killed a teenage boy in the parking lot outside Dillard’s at the Aurora Town Center mall. The victim’s age [...]
AURORA, Colo. — Aurora police are still searching for the person responsible for shooting and killing a teenager outside of a mall Saturday night. Aurora police said the shooting happened just before 8 p.m. in the Dillard's parking lot outside the Aurora Mall. An off-duty officer working nearby performed CPR on the teen, but the [...]
(The Center Square) – Governor JB Pritzker said Tuesday that ending cash bail is a “more fair” system as the state awaits a ruling from the Illinois Supreme Court in the SAFE-T Act lawsuit. The law ending cash bail statewide was initially passed with the SAFE-T Act in early 2021. Read more...
California and other blue states are siding with the Mexican government in its lawsuit against U.S. gun makers like Smith & Wesson, in which Mexico argues the companies are responsible for gun violence south of the border. Mexico's lawsuit claims that gun manufacturers are liable for gun violence, and a filing from California and other [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era. But the idea of using firing squads is making a comeback. Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those [...]
The city has agreed to pay a combined $9.25 million to hundreds of people teargassed, struck with rubber bullets, and detained by police during the 2020 racial justice protests after the police murder of George Floyd. In a settlement order signed Monday by U.S. District Magistrate Judge David R. Strawbridge, the city agreed to pay [...]
The fatal February shooting of a man in Baltimore has been deemed justified by local detectives following an investigation. Baltimore Police Department detectives found that before 42-year-old Joseph Garrison was fatally shot on Feb. 7, he had tried to rob a person who was legally carrying a gun and shot Garrison in self-defense, the Baltimore [...]
A Houston, Texas, judge cut the bail in half of the teenager arrested for allegedly paralyzing a Vietnamese woman during a robbery attack after his defense attorney argued that his family couldn't afford the amount. Harris County court records said that Judge Kristin Guiney lowered the bail from $200,000 to $100,000 for 17-year-old Joseph Harrell. [...]
CHICAGO — Two people were shot while they were inside a business Thursday evening on Chicago’s South Side, according to police. A man, 38, and a woman, 48, were shot around 5:20 p.m. in the 700 block of East 79th Street, near South Cottage Grove Avenue. Read more...
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