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Shelton was named in a multi-count indictment in December 2014 along with Elgin, Elgin’s son, Steven Hunter, and Alex Wheeler, alleging the four committed conspiracy to defraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud; honest service wire fraud; and conspiracy to commit extortion.
Champaign officers were equipped with body cameras in 2017, and those cameras are activated when an officer responds to service calls or is engaged in any law enforcement-related encounter, according to the department’s website. The department didn’t immediately reply to Associated Press requests for further information about the shootout, including whether the officers’ body cameras captured it.
Prekindergarten instructor Angela Panush helps a student with his lunch as others in the classroom eat at their desks on the first day of in-person learning at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago in January. Kindergarten through 12th grade schools would be required to have full-time in-person classes in the fall under a proposed new state rule. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Police examine evidence May 18, 2021, in the 3300 block of West Maypole Avenue, near where a 47-year-old man with gunshot wounds was found unresponsive. Police said he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Bernard Barry, of the 2200 block of South Kildare Avenue in Lawndale, was arrested on his block Monday after a 42-year-old man was shot in the 300 block of North California Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said. Barry appeared Wednesday before Cook County Judge Arthur Willis for a bond hearing broadcast on YouTube.
If lake breezes stay calm, there is a chance temperatures might “make a run at 90″ late Saturday and Sunday, Carlaw said. But it is unlikely this warm spell will break any records. The warmest temperature record May 22 was in 1925, when the temperature hit 94 degrees, Carlaw said. And while the end of the week and weekend are anticipated to feature “above-normal warmth,” Carlaw said it is unlikely the city will see more than a “stray 90″ degree temperature.
In this June 28, 2020 file photo, armed homeowners Mark and Patricia McCloskey, standing in front their house along Portland Place, confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house in the Central West End of St. Louis. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
He said a homeowner’s surveillance video will show Bahena Rivera’s black Chevy Malibu appearing to circle Tibbets as she ran on July 18, 2018, in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Klaver said Bahena Rivera, now 26, later told police that he drove past her and turned around to get a second look because he thought she was “hot.”
“In consideration of the ongoing COVID-19 conditions and recently mandated capacity restrictions, the Club has concluded that it cannot reasonably guarantee health, safety, and success for such a large-scale public event that occurs in the early portion of the summer festival schedule and is thus susceptible to the instability of COVID-related conditions like capacity restrictions,” the Exchange Club said in a press release.
Another speaker, Johannes Favi, said he came from the West African country of Benin in 2013 on a visitor visa, and was in the process of applying for a green card sponsored by his U.S. citizen wife. But immigration agents held him in custody in Kentucky in 2019, the AP reported, in connection with a 2015 financial crime to which he pleaded guilty. He said he was “snatched” from his family for almost a year, and missed the birth of his second child.