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Mom Charged After Son Dies, 6 Kids Hurt In Crash

The car may have been going 94 mph before the crash, with some of the kids sitting on the floor of the vehicle, unrestrained, prosecutors said.>>>Read More.

Former Cop Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Teen, Unrelated Beating

He is charged with second-degree murder after firing into a car, killing Marcellis Stinnette and wounding his girlfriend, and faces additional charges in an unrelated incident a year earlier in which he's accused of breaking a man's eye socket in his own yard. >>Read More.

No Harrison Ford Statue In Illinois Town, Aldermen Say: Report

The mayor said he wasn't too sure the Hollywood icon would appreciate the gesture after sharing stories of being bullied daily while living in an Illinois suburb as a kid.>>Read More.

Highland Park Shooting Survivor Cooper Roberts Returns Home From Rehab

"For all the love that he has come back to, there are so many painful reminders of what he has lost. There is no word that we know of that adequately describes the level of pain you feel or that Cooper feels when he sees his bike he can no longer ride or his old soccer jersey.">>>Read More.

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