Published Friday January 07 2011 4:36 pm. Tags: Chicago, Chicago News, Cullerton Ford Escape, Cullerton Gives Up Car, DUI, DUI Arrest, Illinois, Illinois SB 3353, John Cullerton, John Cullerton Car, John Cullerton Son, John Cullerton Son DUI, John Cullerton State Car, SB 3353, SB3353
Garritt M. Cullerton, 27, son of Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, pleaded guilty today to driving under the influence of alcohol after he was stopped in downtown Chicago last April in a 2009 Ford Escape registered to the state. Cullerton was pulled over during early-morning hours April 18 in the 800 block of North Dearborn [...]
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Published Monday January 03 2011 6:49 pm. Tags: APB, missing, missing accident victim, victim search
A CBS Chicago 2 helicopter with veteran news chopper reporter Kris Habermehl onboard and pilot Jeff Fair at the controls were following a search that was just getting started when the CBS crew discovered a body. Authorities in LaSalle County then found the body of Tanya Shannon, in the cornfield below. She was a mother [...]
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Published Thursday December 30 2010 9:11 am. Tags: earthquake, Indiana earthquake, midwest earthquake, rare earthquake
USGS Community Internet Intensity Map December 30 2010. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake at a depth of 3.0 miles hit central Indiana at 6:55 am local time (12:55 GMT) Thursday, according to the USGS. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damages from the quake, which was centered 50 miles (75 km) northeast of Indianapolis. [...]
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Published Wednesday December 29 2010 4:29 pm. Tags: airline accident, airline incident, Jackson Hole Airport, O'Hare International Airport, runway accident, runway incident
An American Airlines jet went past the end of a snowy runway while landing at Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Airport on Wednesday, but no one was injured and the plane was not damaged. An American Airlines Boeing 757 jetliner from Chicago O’Hare International Airport ran off the runway about 1:00 p.m. Wednesday at Jackson Hole Airport [...]
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Published Tuesday December 28 2010 5:35 pm. Tags: chair lift, chair lift failure, ski accident, Sugar Loaf, trauma alert
Ski Instructor Jay Marshall: “I heard noise, I heard people screaming, and I looked to my left … the cable was bouncing up an down, and that point I knew something awful had happened.” A 35-year-old chair lift fails at one of Maine’s most popular ski resorts, sending skiers plummeting into ungroomed snow far below. [...]
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Published Tuesday December 28 2010 6:24 am. Tags: Illinois laws, Illinois laws 2011, new laws
PALATINE, IL – Almost 200 new laws are scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2011, according State Sen. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine). New laws on sexting, artificial marijuana K2 or Spice, and possession of dangerous primates like the chimpanzee that ripped the face off of Charla Nash. It is also illegal not to have [...]
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Published Monday December 27 2010 1:44 pm. Tags: Atlantic snowstorm, Nor'easter, snowstorm
A blizzard has made streets in New York all but impassable, stopping vehicles in their tracks. One New York taxi driver slept in his cab, then woke up, hoping for a tow. RAW VIDEO: Despite a travel nightmare underway for some in the Northeast due to severe weather, travelers in New York’s Penn Station were [...]
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Published Monday December 13 2010 2:17 pm. Tags: Commerce Clause, health care, Health Care Challenge, Health Care Law, Health Care Lawsuit, health care reform, Health Care Ruling, Politics News, unconstitutional, US Constitution
A federal judge declared the foundation of President Barack Obama’s health care law unconstitutional Monday, ruling that the government cannot require Americans to purchase insurance. The case is expected to end up at the Supreme Court. The health insurance coverage mandate is not scheduled to begin until 2014. Republican Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., issued a [...]
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Published Sunday December 12 2010 6:44 pm. Tags: Arlington National Cemetery, Wreaths, Wreaths Across America
The 2010 Wreaths Across America Ceremony too place December 11, 2010 at 12 noon EST. Volunteers from across the U.S placed some 24,000 wreaths on graves of military personnel at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s the 19th year that wreaths from Worcester Wreath Co. in Maine were used to pay tribute to the nation’s veterans. See [...]
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Published Tuesday December 07 2010 7:16 pm. Tags: accident, airline worker, airline worker accident, fall, lawsuit
The Arlington Heights family of an airline worker, John Bruce, who was killed last year in Kuwait has filed a lawsuit against Chicago-based Boeing and Greenville, South Carolina-based CAV International. John Bruce, 64, of Arlington Heights, was killed October 2009 when a CAV employee engaged a conveyor belt loader while John Bruce was standing on [...]
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Published Friday November 26 2010 5:37 pm. Tags: basketball, Christmas Tree, Obama basketball, presidential injury, White House, White House Christmas Tree
The White House says Obama needed 12 stitches after being injured in a basketball game. Obama was seen leaving the game holding white gauze to his lip and later nursing the lip in the upstairs of the White House. Raw video with Obama lip injury segment whre the injury appeared to be to his lower [...]
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Published Monday November 22 2010 11:45 am.
A Suzuki motorcycle rests after crash involving a Mercury Montego at Buffalo Grove Road and Old Oak Drive. In May 2009, Michael Shane Lechner lost his life in a motorcycle accident. One of Michael’s closest friends was his dog Cain. To honor his memory, Michael’s family made a very generous donation of supplies. Moved by [...]
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