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crime
  • by david hall
Video shows last moments of street fight before Chicago police shoot, kill alleged attacker

Footage appears to show the victim of an attack trying to flag down a police SUV on Monday night. As he tries to evade at least three people, he is apparently stabbed in the middle of the road.

entertainment-and-culture
  • by david hall
Chicago's Puerto Rican Festival to return to Humboldt Park: 'You're completely proud of who you are'

The festival, called Fiestas Patronales Puertorriqueñas, will feature new activities, such as a cookoff between firefighters, and new cultural art installations, including a banner stretching 20 feet wide where guests will use stickers to mark the towns they are from.

dexter-reed-shooting
  • by david hall
Chicago police oversight chief questions why cops in Dexter Reed shooting still have police powers

Andrea Kersten, chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, wrote in a letter to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling that her office hadn’t received a written response to her earlier request to strip the tactical officers of their powers.

nation-world
  • by david hall
Pope Francis apologizes for use of homophobic slur in discussion about ban on gay priests

A vatican statement avoided an outright confirmation that the pope had indeed used the term, but it also didn't deny that Francis had said it.