Plane vanishes over Alaska as desperate search launched - map shows last known location Bering Air Caravan carrying 10 people vanished over Alaska in third major incident in US aviation in eight days Evening Standard · Feb 7, 2025
Crews search for missing Alaska plane with 10 onboard Authorities are searching rural Alaska for an aircraft that went missing while carrying 10 people The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2025
Chicago ends year with fewer shootings, but more robbers use guns as overall crime remains high The city has followed a national trend of lowered gun violence, but it has stood nearly alone in seeing a spike in robberies — 40% more victims than the year before. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 31, 2023
What Google’s antitrust trial means for your search habits The landmark trial could have knock-on consequences that bolster competitors of the tech giant and reshape the digital landscape entirely The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2023
With cash bail eliminated in Illinois, Cook County Jail population shrinks The numbers are near a 40-year low, but experts say they could rise as defendants now deemed too risky to release remain locked up. Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 13, 2023
How the brain makes its own toad venom A new study challenges serotonin's role in depression, while partly explaining why our bodies make drugs like DMT Salon · Feb 20, 2023
Agency identifies officers, shares details of Minnesota police shooting MINNEAPOLIS — New details released Saturday by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension allege that the man killed in a New Auburn police shooting swung a knife at officers, striking one of them, before he was hit with Tasers and shot. Tribune News Service · Dec 18, 2022
SAFE-T Act faces next test in court, where opponents say it violates state constitution Lawyers argue that, “The Illinois Constitution interprets bail, at its core, to include a monetary amount that, though it may take different forms, cannot be abolished altogether without running afoul of the Constitution.” Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 13, 2022
Lawsuit filed by parents in 2019 death of Twins prospect MINNEAPOLIS — Twins prospect Ryan Costello's death in 2019 "was totally avoidable," his parents assert in a lawsuit filed in December. A doctor hired by the Twins to perform a physical exam that detected the heart abnormality that killed him, the suit alleges, did not treat the condition or inform… Tribune News Service · Feb 16, 2022