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About 500 people gathered at the Freeburg Community High School late Thursday to urge the school board not to dump the name that was coined nearly 100 years ago by a reporter after he watched the school's short basketball team beat much larger opponents.
Romain Dukes, will be freed from his federal prison cell in West Viriginia in November. He's one of 46 non-violent drug offenders whose sentences were commuted by President Obama.
The "decomposing" bodies were transported to the Lake County, Ind. Coroner's Office to be examined. Their identities had not been established.
It was a hot summer Friday afternoon and neighbors were hanging out on their porches, gabbing about the weekend's block party, when gunfire suddenly erupted.
The men were standing outside about 5 p.m. in the 4400 block of West Maypole when someone fired shots, police said.
The avian influenza has created a turkey shortage at sandwich shops and meat markets across Chicago.
Best of all, it's free, CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports.
Gov. Rauner's office on Friday announced Corey Brooks, senior pastor at New Beginnings Church, will be a director on the Illinois Tollway Board, the Downers Grove-based authority that controls toll roads.
The problem was discovered July 6 when one of the residents of the home on the 13000 block of West Little Creek Drive in Homer Glen saw a bat flop into his garage, then trapped it with a bucket and notified animal control.
Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith says he understands why Sandra Bland's family wants answers, but added he thinks an investigation will bolster the initial determination the woman committed suicide.
The hardest hit communities appeared to be Delavan, where officials said about 3 dozen homes were damaged, and Cameron, a tiny community about 60 miles away.
Indiana state officials have set a trap to catch a black bear that has been wandering around the Michigan City area for the past month, and if they catch him, they plan to take him back home to Michigan.
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The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on Friday celebrated the opening of the first of two disinfection plants designed to help clean up area rivers.
