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Officers Jeffery Shafer and Victor Guebara were each charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct, both felonies, and are scheduled to appear for a bond hearing later Wednesday in the Leighton Criminal Court building, according to court records and Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

As they investigated, northbound lanes of the Edens were closed at 7:15 a.m., officials said. They were reopened about an hour later, but the temporary closure resulted in serious delays for travelers. Traffic monitors said vehicles were at a standstill back to Montrose Avenue, near where Interstate 94 splits from Interstate 90 in Mayfair, a couple of miles away.

Interpreters have been the lifeblood of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan for the past two decades, providing cultural insights, muscle and consistency as American troops rotated in and out of the country. Romal, for example, worked gate security at Camp Mike Spann in the northern part of the country and went on patrols with U.S. soldiers for years, assuming all the risks and obligations of a potential firefight.

Illinois House Republican leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, rear, watches as state Rep. Tim Butler, right, R-Springfield, questions Illinois state Rep. Elizabeth “Lisa” Hernandez, D-Cicero, during an Illinois House Redistricting Committee meeting at the state Capitol in Springfield on Aug. 31, 2021. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register/AP)

Ella French was shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop of three people in a vehicle just after 9 p.m. Aug. 7 in West Englewood. Her partner, Carlos Yanez Jr., was seriously wounded after being shot and faces the possibility of a lifetime disability, his family said.

Christian Liberty Academy on Aug. 31, 2021, in Arlington Heights. The private school has been added to the list of Illinois schools the state has found to be noncompliant with Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s school mask mandate. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

Two of the victims in the Sunday crash, a 39-year-old woman and the cyclist, a 55-year-old man, were in critical condition after suffering head trauma, police said. The third victim, the 39-year-old man who had been walking with the woman, was in good condition with leg pain. Allen was treated for bruises on his face.

Inside, police asked the baby’s name, age and her age, court records show. She gave the boy’s age as just under 4 months, but was later confirmed as 7 months old. Gary Police Officer Simon Lillie, also a longtime West Side High School resource officer, recognized the teen, records state.

Demonstrators protest against mandated vaccines outside of the Michigan State Capitol on Aug. 6 in Lansing, Michigan. There were 44 counties in Michigan at high or substantial levels of community coronavirus transmission, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventions case and test positivity criteria as of Aug. 5. (Emily Elconin / Getty Images)

Only six of the more than 500 people charged in the investigation have been sentenced, according to Department of Justice records. The first, Bloomington, Indiana, resident Anna Morgan-Lloyd, pleaded guilty in June to parading, demonstrating and picketing inside the Capitol and received 36 months of probation.