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On May 14, the 42-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk in the 500 block of West Hawthorne Place, when her ex-husband, Paul Woebel, 47, came up behind her and struck her in the head, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said in a bond hearing streamed live Wednesday on YouTube. The woman fell to the ground and Woebel continued hitting her in the arms and head as she tried to shield herself from the blows, Murphy said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned Tuesday that the delta virus variant first detected in India is becoming more prevalent in the U.S. He said vaccines have proven less effective against that variant when people are not fully immunized, and evidence points to it being more transmissible and more deadly.
“Skating is much more of an individual sport, and then there is a team event once the team is picked,” he said. “Even though these are guys that I’ve known for a long time, you still have to mesh together to bring it together for the team event and baseball. There’s a lot of pieces to the puzzle, but thankfully I’ve grown up playing both sports, so I’ve always had that team atmosphere with me. I was always so excited for the team event in speedskating. And I think that had to do a lot with growing up playing baseball and the amount of friendships and bonds that I created.”
This computer-generated image shows a Gucci virtual garden on Roblox. Anyone whose avatar is traipsing around the Roblox online game platform these days might run into other avatars sporting Gucci handbags, sunglasses or hats. The digital-only items are part of Gucci’s time-limited collection for Roblox. (AP)
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, greets NCAA President Mark Emmert as the panel prepares to hold a hearing on student athlete compensation and federal legislative proposals to enable athletes participating in collegiate sports to monetize their name, image, and likeness, at the Capitol in Washington on June 9, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
The electric Endurance pickup truck is on display June 25, 2021, at Lordstown Motors Corp. in Lordstown, Ohio. But Lordstown Motors says it may not be in business a year from now. In a quarterly regulatory filing released June 8, 2021, Lordstown says the $587 million it had on hand as of March 31 isn’t enough to start production and begin selling the truck. (Tony Dejak/AP)
Carlos Carcach, a profesor at El Salvador’s Superior School of Economics and Business, argued that adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender “is not necessary, nor convenient,” though he added, “as long as there is someone who accepts payment with Bitcoin, the same as they accept dollars, there wouldn’t be problems.”
Sharonda Roberson prepares for a court case via Zoom in her law office in Aurora. Following the May 31, 2020, unrest in the city, Roberson helped found The People’s Coalition, organized a peace rally and created a Facebook group for Aurora residents to share concerns about the complaint process against police officers in Aurora. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
Yiran Fan, 30, an economics student at the University of Chicago, was the first of five people fatally shot by a single gunman at several locations on the South Side and Evanston. Fan’s parents will be presented with his degree at the University of Chicago’s Beijing center in his native China. (University of Chicago)
“In that conversation, oftentimes I will just say, ‘Hey, full transparency, I’ve received a vaccine,’” Lambert said. “A lot of times, it’s patients on the fence. They’re like, ‘Let me ask a trusted source,’ and for a lot of folks, that’s their primary care doctor.”