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No Bail For Third Suspect In Pregnant Teen’s Murder
DOLTON, Ill. (STMW) – A 19-year-old south suburban man was ordered held without bond Thursday for his role in the Christmas Day slaying of a 17-year-old pregnant pregnant Chicago girl. Darius D....
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Naperville Man Sentenced In Child Porn Case
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (STMW) – A man from Naperville’s far south side has been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay $14,000 in fines and legal costs, after being convicted of having pornographic images of...
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Crackdown On Illegal Use Of Disabled-Parking Placards Starts In 2 Weeks
CHICAGO (STMW) – Able-bodied drivers who’ve been illegally using disabled-parking placards to avoid feeding parking meters in Chicago have just a couple more weeks before their free parking passes...
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Gary Homicide Total Highest Since 2007
GARY, Ind. (STMW) – Fifty-five people died violent deaths in Gary last year — the most since 2007, when the city experienced 71 homicides. The total for 2013 is up 28 percent over 2012, but the number...
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Ex-Felons To Keep Jobs With CTA, Cleaning Buses
CHICAGO (CBS) – It appears that 60 ex-felon apprentice car-cleaners will keep their jobs at the CTA — but they will be cleaning buses instead of rapid transit cars for the foreseeable future. CTA...
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Snow Totals For New Year’s Storm
UPDATED 01/02/14 – 11 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Here are two-day snowfall totals, reported to the National Weather Service, from the New Year’s winter storm, as of 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Location Total O’HARE...
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Man Charged With Pointing Gun At Cops On New Year’s
CHICAGO (STMW) – A man shot by a Chicago Police officer after allegedly raising a gun toward officers early Wednesday — the city’s first reporting shooting of 2014 — has been charged with aggravated...
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Suburban House Fire Caused By Tenant Thawing Frozen Pipes
ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (STMW) – Firefighters fought off the cold and chased a fire through the walls of a home Monday night in northwest suburban Round Lake Beach. The fire was started by the tenant,...
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Two Arrested For Trying To Sell Fake Drugs On Craigslist
FOX LAKE (CBS) — Two north suburban men who advertised fake narcotics for sale on Craigslist were arrested after a sting by undercover sheriff’s detectives. The pills, which the men advertised as...
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Teens Try To Rob Empty ATM Inside Closed Dominick’s
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two teenagers are in police custody after they tried to rob an ATM, which turned out to be empty, inside a closed Dominick’s store Thursday morning in Streeterville. The teens tried to...
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Snow, Changing Temps Keeping Pothole Repair Crews Busy
CHICAGO (CBS) – Under all that snow lies a deeper problem for the city of Chicago: potholes. “We usually see the number of potholes grow later in the winter than they do traditionally in December, but...
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With Major Snow Comes Chicago Tradition: Chairs, Orange Cones — Anything — To...
play pause 'Dibs' Returns With First Big Snowfall' WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser (CBS) – This week’s snowfall has brought back an old Chicago tradition: the placement of chairs, cones, milk crates...
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Man Rescued From Icy Lakefront
play pause Man Rescued From Icy Lake WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser (CBS) – Chicago first-responders rescued a man at 75th Street and the lakefront this afternoon. CBS 2′s Pamela Jones observed the...
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More Lawsuits Filed Challenging State Pension Cuts
CHICAGO (AP) — Two groups of retired state employees on Thursday became the latest organizations to pursue a court challenge of a new plan to eliminate Illinois’ $100 billion public pension shortfall....
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Police: Des Plaines Man Stabbed His Father During NY Eve Fight
(STMW) – A 20-year-old northwest suburban man is facing felony charges after stabbing his father in the chest when they got into an argument while drinking on New Year’s Eve, according to police. John...
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Snow Gives Way To Dangerous Subzero Temperatures
Sammy the dog gets a taste of winter on Chicago’s Northwest Side this week. (Tommy Nava) play pause Kids Enjoy The Snow At Sledding Field WBBM Newsradio's Bob Roberts Updated 12/03/14 – 6:23 a.m. (CBS)...
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2 Investigators: Cop Allegedly Bilked Ailing Senior Of $20,000
(CBS) — How did a police officer remain on the job and in a command position despite repeated allegations of corruption? The 2 Investigators first reported on Sgt. John Wasilenko last year. Now, he...
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Cops Foil Carjacking Suspect As He Tries To Rob Victim
CHICAGO (STMW) — A Skokie man was ordered held on $500,000 bond Thursday for allegedly carjacking a woman in the North Side Edgewater neighborhood before he was foiled by Chicago police. The...
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Wisconsin Man Makes First Cut For Proposed Mars Colony
(CBS) – More than 200,000 people applied to be astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars, and now the Netherlands-based group Mars One has cut the list down to just over 1,000. WBBM’s Steve Miller talked to...
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Man Awaiting Burglary Trial Arrested For Gary Homicide
GARY, Ind. (STMW) – A Miller, Ind. man scheduled for trial Jan. 13 on burglary, escape and other charges has been arrested on murder and criminal recklessness charges. Jesse J. King, 20, shot Tramell...
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