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Sitting behind Jackson, Houston handed Jackson back the gun Houston purchased from Jackson to load it. At that point, Houston thought Jackson was going to rob him and feared for his life, Gaeger said. According to Gaeger, Houston said he grabbed the gun because he was afraid, and the gun went off.
“Save the Nuclear Plants” reads a sign outside th Byron Generating Station in Byron, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. If state lawmakers are unable to approve an energy pan that would include a bailout for three Exelon nuclear plants in the upcoming days, the company has said it will shut down the Bryon plant permanently after Sept. 13. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Outside, the man was chased down the street by an unknown person, and then Jefferson, who was wearing a black hat and no shirt, also confronted the man, prosecutors said. Jefferson and the unknown person then allegedly attacked the man, knocking him to the ground. His wallet fell out of his pants and Jefferson took it. They then continued to hit and kick the man, prosecutors said.
Presta, 70, was charged in U.S. District Court last year with taking an envelope stuffed with cash bribes from a representative of SafeSpeed LLC, a red-light camera company that does business in his town. The representative was actually cooperating with the FBI and the entire exchange was caught on an undercover camera, records show.
“I look at Abraham Lincoln as a moral leader and someone who was able to be honest, principled, a uniter, who also was willing to fight for what’s right,” said Sullivan, of Petersburg, the founder and CEO of Alter Global, a venture capital group associated largely with international technology related investments.
The armed robberies happened between 1:45 a.m. and around 2:15 a.m. and the victims all had either a phone, wallet or purse or both stolen, police said. But despite the geographic proximity, quick succession of the crimes and a similar vehicle description for the three robberies, investigators said there were a different number of thieves during each attack.
“Honestly, I’ve got to tell you, I don’t feel confident sending my kids back to school. I don’t. And this was a real struggle for us because we have just tried so hard to get both of our kids into a wonderful public school like NTA, and now it looks like we’re going to have to home school them because (CPS is) not giving us a remote option,” said Estrada, who lives in the Canaryville neighborhood.
In the family’s view, the U.S. had the greatest leverage to make a deal to return Frerichs home during peace talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, that concluded in February 2020, about a month after the kidnapping. But the agreement, which stipulated a timetable for the U.S. pulling out of Afghanistan, was signed on Feb. 29, 2020, by then-President Donald Trump with no mention of Frerichs.
Bradley Aldrich, a former Chicago Blackhawks video coach who was part of the 2010 championship team, was convicted in 2013 of criminal sexual conduct, a misdemeanor, with a high school hockey player he coached as a volunteer in Houghton, Michigan. (WLUC-TV Upper Michigan Source)
A meeting to discuss the allegations is held in San Jose, California, where the Hawks were playing the Sharks in the playoffs, according to Vincent and the lawsuit. Officials at the meeting, according to Vincent, included McDonough, MacIsaac, Bowman, Gary and one other Hawks staff member whom Vincent couldn’t recall. Vincent told the Tribune the officials said in the meeting they would handle the matter “from this point on.”