It's Academic: October 4, 2014

• Former Fort Worth mayor pro tem and CBS News Texas colleague Gyna Bivens dies at 71

  

• Chicago weekend shootings leave 1 killed, 12 hurt, CPD says

  

• Driver hits Illinois State Police squad car on Route 53 in northwest suburbs

  

• 2 young children, 2 dogs, killed during house fire in Jackson

  

• Man accused of stabbing wife to death in Howard County faces prior charges

  

• Attorney wants justice for students allegedly sexually assaulted by teacher

  

• Man wanted for deadly stabbing of estranged wife turns himself in

  

• 7 churches within the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh to close in March