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CHICAGO (CBS) – A 28-year-old man has been charged with killing and robbing a cab driver in the Princeton Park neighborhood last week. Eric Taylor, of the 8500 block of South Parnell Avenue, has been charged with one count each of first-degree murder and armed robbery with a firearm, police said. On March 14, a [...]

A French man impersonating a pilot was arrested at Philadelphia International Airport on Wednesday night after boarding a U.S. Airways flight scheduled to fly to West Palm Beach, Photo Credit: Philadelphia Police Go to Source Author:

Thanks to what scientists have dubbed the “best map ever of the universe,” NASA now believes the universe is expanding slower than previously thought and is nearly 100 million years older than previous estimates… Photo Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration Go to Source Author:

CHICAGO (STMW) – A 58-year-old woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver while she was walking in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood Thursday night, authorities said. Ida Quintanilla was struck by a dark-colored SUV in the 4500 block of South Archer Avenue about 8:40 p.m., police said. The driver of the SUV fled the [...]

MORRIS, Ill. (STMW) – Police are looking for three men who robbed a southwest suburban Morris cell phone store Monday. At 5:43 p.m. three men entered the Sprint store in the 1400 block of Division Street and showed a gun to an employee, Police Chief Brent Dite said. The trio left after taking merchandise. No [...]

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (STMW) – Police say an Aurora teen forced his way into a girl’s southwest suburban Bolingbrook house to sexually assault her last summer. Zachary M. Holland, 18, turned himself in last week, after police obtained a warrant charging him with home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual assault for the July 30, 2012 incident, [...]

CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. (STMW) – Jerry Wolf was driving a truck full of cattle in Colorado when his mother called from Carpentersville. She’d just read a story about the Kane County Coroner’s Office trying to connect families with about 50 unclaimed cremated remains that had been lying in storage for years. And the name of his [...]

CHICAGO (CBS) – An off-duty CTA employee was arrested in the Back of the Yards neighborhood overnight, on suspicion of drunk driving, after crashing into an ambulance carrying a patient to the hospital. Around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, a Chicago Fire Department ambulance was transporting a patient and a family member to the University of Illinois [...]

(AP) – Natura Pet Products is recalling an assortment of its dog, cat and ferret foods because they may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria. The Fremont, Neb.-based company said Tuesday that no illnesses have been linked to its products, but the tests by Michigan officials confirmed salmonella in its products. Salmonella can affect both pets [...]

CHICAGO (STMW) – Three men were arrested after police caught them burglarizing a residence in the Roscoe Village neighborhood Tuesday morning. Chicago residents Tyrone Donald, 22, and Cory Durr, 31, as well as 31-year-old Michael Stephens of Waukegan were each charged with 2 counts of residential burglary, police said. Police responding to a report of [...]

Three rare maleo chicks have hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York, making the zoo one of just two places in the world where the endangered birds can be found. The other is their native home on… Go to Source Author:

CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are asking for help identifying a deceased middle-aged woman who was recently found in an Andersonville driveway. Police described the woman, believed to be about 60, as “well-manicured” with dyed-brown hair and teeth that have undergone dental work. She was discovered in a driveway in the 5400 block of North Ashland [...]

CHICAGO (CBS) – A group of teachers, parents and students from the Chicago Public Schools were boarding buses to Springfield Tuesday morning, to make their voices heard about school closings. CBS 2’s Susanna Song reports the group plans to urge lawmakers to stop CPS officials from closing dozens of schools. The Chicago Teachers Union helped [...]

Pope Francis urged the world to defend the poor and protect the environment during his inauguration mass. The Pontiff also said that in order to protect others, one must never forget to… Photo Credit: AP Go to Source Author:

A 48-year-old cab driver died Monday evening after being shot last week during a robbery in the South Side’s Princeton Park neighborhood, authorities said. Go to Source Author:

Pope Francis thrilled tens of thousands of people on Tuesday gathered for his installation Mass, taking a long round-about through St. Peter’s Square and getting out of his jeep to bless a… Go to Source Author:

CHICAGO (STMW) – A man from the Old Town neighborhood has been charged for his alleged role in a Red Line CTA train attack. Cameron Griggs, 19, of the 1300 block of N. Hudson, is being held in lieu of $90,000 bail after his arrest Friday for aggravated battery at 15 W. 69th St. Assistant [...]

St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago may be chilly, but the latest storm system to pass through the area will hold off until Monday, leaving celebrators with only one weather issue to deal with. Photo Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS Go to Source Author:

CHICAGO (STMW) – An elderly northwest suburban woman died Sunday following a car accident last week that left her critically injured. About 4:25 p.m. Wednesday, 71-year-old Susan Kuncl was driving west on West Division Street when she allegedly ran a traffic light and struck a vehicle waiting to turn left on North Elston Avenue, authorities [...]

The Illinois State Treasurer’s office is auctioning off more than 12,000 pieces of unclaimed property in its possession, including dozens of rare coins, and several pieces of jewelry. All the items were left in safe deposit boxes or bank accounts that went unclaimed for at least five years. To view the items up for bid, [...]

A 16-year-old boy was killed in Gage Park on Saturday afternoon, one of four people shot between about 1:30 and 9:15 p.m. Go to Source Author:

A silver car wound up entangled in a tree and had to be pulled off an embankment by a tow truck early Sunday morning on the Eisenhower Expressway.  Go to Source Author:

A race car at the Marysville Raceway Park, about 40 miles north of Sacramento, ran off the track and killed two people in California, according to NBC Bay Area. The car ran through a gap between the track and th… Photo Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS Go to Source Author:

A three-story brick apartment building caught fire in the Albany Park neighborhood early Sunday morning.  Go to Source Author:

Chicago Police shot and killed a man who started shooting at officers after he crashed into several parked cars early Saturday in the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood. The shooting happened about 2:55 a.m. in the 3300 block of West Wilson Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said. The man, in his 30s, was [...]

A shooting before 2 a.m. in the West Town neighborhood left a man wounded and two other men were shot on the city’s Northwest and West sides Friday night.  Go to Source Author:

A man was shot and killed after he fired a gun at Chicago police early Saturday morning in Albany Park on the city’s Northwest Side.  Go to Source Author:

(Credit: Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images) By Tony Meale If you’re fantasy baseball draft hasn’t happened already, it’s going to be happening soon. Here’s a look at the top five players at each position. First base Albert Pujols, Angels After a dreadful start to 2012, Pujols still finished with 30 homers, 108 RBIs and a respectable [...]