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Teen couple kills five family members - aged 21 to 74 - in rampage, cops say

Local prosecutors have remained limited in what they can share publicly due to the age of the suspects

The Independent UK · Jul 14

Illinois Police Reveal Teen Suspect Was Related to Victims in Deadly East St. Louis Family Attack

Two teenagers have been arrested following a targeted family attack in East St. Louis, leaving five dead and two injured. The suspects are related to the victims, intensifying the tragedy.

International Business Times UK · Jul 14

Two teens arrested after five members of family killed in Illinois shooting

Suspects, aged 15 and 16, taken into custody but not formally charged in ‘targeted mass shooting’ in East St Louis

The Guardian - US · Jul 13

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Is Queanbeyan's theatre haunted? It is now

Two Canberra filmmakers have shot a horror film at the Q.

The Canberra Times · Apr 28, 2024

Chicago-area expressway shootings down sharply this year

As of Tuesday, there have been 82 shootings on Cook County expressways, putting the city on pace to have fewer than last year. But the number of shootings is still higher than before the pandemic.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 5, 2023

US District Judge James Zagel, ‘Renaissance man’ who presided over some of Chicago’s biggest trials, dies at 82

Longtime U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel, the former leader of the Illinois State Police who went on to preside over the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the landmark Family Secrets mob trial, and many other of the area’s biggest cases, died Saturday night after a long illness,…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 16, 2023

Highland Park, a year later: Use of state’s ‘red flag’ gun laws jumps in wake of parade killings

In the immediate aftermath of last year’s mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade came the expected questions when such a tragedy unfolds: Who was the gunman? Where had his weapon come from?

Chicago Tribune · Jul 3, 2023

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Brendan Kelly: PSNI 'concerned' for whereabouts of missing man with 'significant' injury

Brendan Kelly has been reported missing from the South Belfast area

Belfast Live · Mar 22, 2023

Body found in Tipperary as gardai confirm search for missing man stood down

Brendan Kelly, aged 44, was reported missing from his home in Nenagh, Co Tipperary on Wednesday morning. Gardai confirmed today that the missing persons appeal has been stood down following the discovery of a body.

Irish Mirror · Feb 23, 2023

Illinois State Rifle Association files federal lawsuit over state’s assault weapons ban

CHICAGO — Illinois’ flagship gun rights organization on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit alleging the newly signed state law that prohibits high-powered guns and large-capacity ammunition magazines violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Chicago Tribune · Jan 19, 2023

Illinois State Rifle Association files federal lawsuit over state’s gun ban

Chicago Tribune · Jan 18, 2023

Routt County trails project could set bad precedent, wildlife advocates warn

A plan long in the works to respond to demands for more mountain-biking trails in the Steamboat Springs area is being criticized as not taking enough steps to protect one of Colorado’s largest elk herds.

The Denver Post · Dec 28, 2022

Movement in the Tylenol murders: Law enforcement seeks to persuade prosecutors to act on ‘chargeable’ case

CHICAGO — As the 40th anniversary of the 1982 Tylenol murders approaches, investigators are working with prosecutors on a now-or-maybe-never effort to hold a longtime suspect responsible for the poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area, the Tribune has learned.

Chicago Tribune · Sep 22, 2022

Marc Engellener, Jon Lindstrom claim wins at 2022 International Mid-Am & Senior Championships

One of amateur golf’s biggest majors has crowned some new champions.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 10, 2022

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Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 18, 2022

State Police push broader use of ‘clear and present danger’ reports in FOID card screening

Deemed a “first step” by gun control advocates, the new emergency rule is designed to allow State Police to consider a larger range of information in the definition of clear and present danger and clarify the agency’s authority to use the reports.

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2022

Highland Park shooting suspect’s father ‘may have certain responsibility’ for attack police warn

Bob Crimo sponsored son’s firearms licence despite police being called to family home two months earlier because he threatened to ‘kill everyone’

Tribune News Service · Jul 8, 2022

Martin Schram: Red flags can’t wave themselves

Red flags will just hang like limp noodles if their flag-wavers go AWOL on breezeless days. Left unattended, those red bits of cloth will signal no warning alert, send no sense of alarm that urgent action is needed to save lives.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 8, 2022

Highland Park shooting suspect’s father says he had ‘zero’ involvement, according to media reports

“I had no — not an inkling, warning — that this was going to happen,” Robert Crimo Jr., told ABC. “I am just shocked.”

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Chicago Tribune · Jul 7, 2022

Highland Park police ‘danger’ warning couldn't bar alleged parade shooter from buying rifle, state police say

CHICAGO — Two days after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Independence Day parade shocked the country and put renewed focus on weaknesses in Illinois’ gun laws, authorities continued to hash out how alleged gunman Robert Crimo III apparently bought a high-powered rifle despite troubling episodes in his background.

Bristol Post · Jun 24, 2022

Two marches and rallies in Bristol city centre on Saturday

They will support Ukraine, climate justice and the striking railway workers

Daily Mirror · Jun 17, 2022

Workers may need to consider general strike like 1926, top union chief says

Rail strikes are due to cripple much of the network for three days next week. Wales Trades Union Congress President Brendan Kelly believes the action could – and should – spread to other industries

Chicago Sun-Times · May 18, 2022

‘Ghost’ busters: Illinois becomes first state in Midwest to ban untraceable do-it-yourself ‘ghost guns’

The Illinois law requires all firearms, including 3D-printed guns, to have serial numbers. Ghost guns are largely untraceable because they lack such identifying numbers.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 7, 2022

Dan Ryan shooting upstages governor’s news conference on state’s efforts to make Chicago expressways safer

As he and the state police director spoke, a person was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway near downtown, the 14th person shot on an expressway in Cook County this year.

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