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CHICAGO (AP) — The prospect of prison looms over former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife after they agreed to plead guilty to charges in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items — including furs, a gold watch, a football signed by U.S. presidents and even a hat […]
DETROIT (AP) — The corruption case of Kwame Kilpatrick was given to jurors Friday after a blistering summary from a prosecutor who said the former Detroit mayor’s bank account swelled with a “tidal wave of green” through extortion and bribery. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow tried to pull the jury to the government’s view of […]
A Republican senator from Illinois said Thursday he had asked permission from the mother of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton to name his gun-safety legislation after the girl. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) said in a statement that he met with some Illinois families who lost loved ones to gun violence and asked the permission of […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — LeBron James changed his jersey number, won an NBA championship and still gets inevitably compared to Michael Jordan at nearly every opportunity. With James producing at a record-setting clip that no one had ever reached, just as Jordan’s 50th birthday approaches this weekend, classifying James’ place in league history couldn’t be […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators determined fairly quickly that the burned human remains found after a shootout in Southern California mountains are those of Christopher Dorner, the ex-police officer suspected in a rampage that left four people dead. But the answer to a second question will likely prove more elusive — how did he die? […]
When photographer Kelli Higgins decided to adopt her 13-year-old son Latrell and his sister two years ago, she had no newborn photos of the siblings. Lacking any newborn photos, one of Higgins’ other children recently suggested that she do a photo session with Latrell and make him look like a newborn. Thinking it was a […]
CHICAGO (AP) — For the first time since Prohibition, Chicago has a new Public Enemy No. 1 — a drug kingpin in Mexico deemed so menacing that he’s been assigned the famous label created for Al Capone. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was singled out for his role as leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say synthetic marijuana has been linked to kidney damage in some teens and young adults. Sixteen people who smoked synthetic marijuana were hospitalized with kidney problems last year in six states. All recovered but five of them needed dialysis. Synthetic marijuana is plant material sprayed with chemicals that can […]
CHICAGO — A jury has convicted a Chicago attorney of murdering former NBA center Eddy Curry‘s ex-girlfriend and infant daughter four years ago. Fredrick Goings showed no reaction when the jury’s guilty verdict was read Tuesday in the January 2009 shooting deaths of 24-year-old Nova Henry and her and Curry’s 10-month-old daughter, Ava. Goings represented Henry in a child […]
The message James V. Page posted on Facebook on his wife’s 50th birthday said in part: We have been in the U.S. Navy together; homeless together; broke with no money or food together; bought our first home together, watched all five of our children get their college degree’s together; Gave up on each other together; […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for Barry Bonds urged a federal appeals court on Wednesday to toss out the slugger’s obstruction of justice conviction, saying a rambling answer he gave while testifying before a grand jury was not a crime. Appellate specialist Dennis Riordan argued that Bonds was not formally or specifically charged with […]
President Obama often calls the 2008 economic crisis the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In the 1930s, all Americans faced staggering rates of unemployment and poverty. Economic uncertainty and despair were commonplace for most and the American Dream seemed unattainable. However, even when the entire nation was suffering, the economic realities that African […]
