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Israel Capistran, 45, was taken into custody Sunday on a charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, prosecutors said. When Waukegan police arrested Capistran, he was in his car and during a search of the vehicle, police found a handgun. Authorities lodged additional charges against Capistran for not having a firearm owners identification card, officials said.
By 1931, the mill’s engineers had transformed 52 working Axminster looms, reproducing patterns that were copied by Karastan’s designers from handmade originals. The rugs were named after famed rug-producing regions in Iran (Ispahan, Kirman, Sarouk), Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey (Oushak, Turkoman), along with Karastan’s unique number coding — the first Karastan designs, or what is now called “the original Karastan collection,” are the brand’s 700 series.
Hallie Chewing, 19, a rising junior at Liberty University serves customer, Kora Mayo, 6, a cookie dough with rainbow sprinkles cone at Blue Cow Ice Cream on July 13, 2020, in Roanoke, Virginia. In summer 2021, entry-level, teen-friendly jobs in the restaurant, fast-food, hospitality and leisure sectors are especially plentiful. (STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times/AP)
Through Sunday, there were 269 homicides in Chicago, a 5% increase over the same time last year when 256 people were slain across the city, according to official Chicago Police Department statistics. But the total number of people shot in the city, non-fatally and fatally, has jumped by double digits over last year.
Spin instructor Jason Easterly, of Bronzeville, standing along the lakefront near the Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr., art installation Demand Justice, is hosting a Juneteenth Freedom Ride through Bronzeville to downtown. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
Harris’ brother pushed her and told her to start running, so she did, Harris said. She was shot twice in the left leg, but if her brother hadn’t pushed her, Harris said she would have been shot in the back. She was taken to Stroger Hospital and later released, and her brother fell to the ground and avoided being shot, Harris said.
Menaker, a graduate of New Trier High School with a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, was a four-year softball starter at Cornell University — which added her last year to its Athletics Hall of Fame.
Vice President Kamala Harris accepts a gift from Cameron Kinley, class president, during the Graduation and Commissioning Ceremony for the United States Naval Academy’s Class of 2021 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Friday, May 28, 2021. (Brian Krista/Capital Gazette)
Nearly 6 million people in the U.S. and many more worldwide have Alzheimer’s, which gradually attacks areas of the brain needed for memory, reasoning, communication and basic daily tasks. In the final stages of the disease, those afflicted lose the ability to swallow. The global burden of the disease, the most common cause of dementia, is only expected to grow as millions more Baby Boomers progress further into their 60s and 70s.
Emily May, founder of Hollaback, says she has seen a spike in interest among average citizens as well as corporations wanting bystander training from her organization. Last year, she had 25,000 people sign up for a free one-hour Zoom training, up from 5,000 in 2019. So far this year, 130,000 people have registered.