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State Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, D-Glenview, celebrates the passage of the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History Act at the Illinois House of Representatives in the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on May 31, 2021. (Justin L. Fowler / AP)
Smokejumpers dive into remote areas that generally are not immediately accessible any other way. The goal is to subdue the fire when it’s small, before it grows. Using hand tools such as a chainsaw, a torch and a Pulaski tool, which combines an ax for chopping with an adze for digging, a small group of firefighters may try to clear out brush and other fuel, and contain the fire within boundaries.
During a bail hearing broadcast Sunday on YouTube, authorities said Keon Rodgers, who faces a first-degree murder charge, set up an online profile using the photos of the mother of his 9-month-old child and used the profile to bait the victim to come to the 6900 block of South Michigan Avenue for a sexual encounter.
At about 1 p.m., emergency responders headed to the beach after reports of people struggling in the water. Several young people were rescued, according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, but the 14-year-old was missing. About 10 minutes later, a Jet Ski operator saw the teen under the water’s surface and alerted the Michigan City Fire Department, officials said.
During a bail hearing broadcast Sunday on YouTube, authorities said Keon Rodgers, who faces a first-degree murder charge, set up an online profile using the photos of the mother of his 9-month-old child and used the profile to bait the victim to come to the 6900 block of South Michigan Avenue for a sexual encounter.
A witness told police the attacker, a man about 30, who had dreadlocks, was wearing a red bandanna, a dark shirt and light-colored pants, emerged from the nearby D’Angelo Park and stabbed the woman before fleeing to Lower Wacker Drive and discarding the shirt, which police found.
“We were greeted by dogs and whips, by shouting and screaming, orders to try to empty the train, by confusion, and by men in striped uniform. We didn’t know it at the time, but the men in uniform were the Jews who were brought there before us. They were called ‘Kanada,’ which I found out later. Their job was to empty the train. One of those men saved my life,” she said in 1990.
Temperatures on Sunday, Father’s Day, will stay in the high 80s and low 90s, but will cool down early next week with lingering rain and thunderstorms southeast of the city, Ogorek said. Monday has the greatest chance of rain, with high temperatures in the 70s and lows in the 50s, according to the weather service.
A 29-year-old man had been driving a Polaris Slingshot AutoCycle — a low-riding vehicle that combines aspects of a motorcycle and an automobile, such as two seats, a steering wheel and seat belts, but no roof or air bags, according to Polaris — around 2:40 a.m. in the 400 block of South Homan Avenue in Homan Square on the West Side, police said.
Mensah, who is Black, joined the Wauwatosa Police Department in 2015, the same year he shot and killed Antonio Gonzales, who identified as a Latino and American Indian. Prosecutors said Gonzales refused to drop a sword. The Anderson shooting came the following year.