Incident in Aurora Monday highlights concerns about game being played by high school seniors across the country.
Column: ‘Senior Assassin’ game prompts warnings from Aurora area police, schools
Day: April 24, 2024
Police tangle with students in Texas and California as wave of campus protest against Gaza war grows
Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. At the University of Texas at Austin, dozens of local police and state troopers formed a line to prevent students from marching through the campus Wednesday, eventually clashing with the protesters and detaining multiple people. And at the University of Southern California, police removed several tents, then got into a tugging match with protesters before falling back. The actions across the U.S. came after Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police earlier in the day.
Dolton, Mayor Tiffany Henyard, hit with another lawsuit from business owner
A federal lawsuit filed against Dolton and Mayor Tiffany Henyard alleges a business license for a barber shop was denied due to “arbitrary and capricious” actions by the mayor.
DuPage County clerk says county board has no right to question her no-bid contracts
DuPage County Clerk Jane Kaczmarek refused this week to comply with a request that she attend a DuPage County Board meeting to answer questions about two contracts she approved without seeking bids.
Of Notoriety: Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame 2024 inductees includes East Chicago Spanish newspaper
While serving my past duties on the board of directors for the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, including time as the vice president in 2005, the range of inductees spanned far and near, all with shared talents and merits of our profession.
Arizona House advances a repeal of the state’s near-total abortion ban to the Senate
A proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions won approval from the state House Wednesday after two weeks of mounting pressure on Republicans over an issue that has bedeviled former President Donald Trump’s campaign to return to the White House.
Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine as he signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also included assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other global hotspots.
Pulllman House Project spotlights resident who fought off city bulldozers
A Pullman group opened up the home of Italian immigrant Americo L. Lisciotto, who led an effort to keep Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood from being bulldozed as part of a 1960s industrial redevelopment project.
Supreme Court appears skeptical that state abortion bans conflict with federal health care law
Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies.
New techniques being used to analyze finds at Collier Lodge
New archaeological techniques are being used to analyze artifacts uncovered during digs at the Collier Lodge site along the Kankakee River.