A South Side man was charged Thursday with the shooting death of a high
school student aboard a CTA bus -- one day after he surrendered at a
South Side church, authorities said.
Starting a two-day blitz in Wisconsin, where they're running 5 to 10
percentage points behind, John McCain and Sarah Palin praised veterans,
denounced abortion, slammed the media and blamed the country's economic
mess on Barack Obama and the his fellow Democrats.
CTA rider Sherman Mosley wonders why he may have to pay higher fares next year, when service hasn't improved. "The
trains and buses are still late," said Mosley, 28, on hearing fares
could go up to $2.25 next year. "We're not getting anything new. It's
just costing us more money."
Chicago motorists who get caught talking on cell phones while driving
without a hands-free device would no longer lose their driver's
licenses, under a mayoral plan that would have spared a North Side
alderman political embarrassment.
Chicagoans have a choice Sunday: either join the 1.5 million people
expected to watch the Chicago Marathon -- or try to avoid it
altogether. But it won't be easy, as 45,000 runners will clog up the
26.2 mile race course and more streets for a good part of the day.
Milton Wardlaw walked in to a South Side church Wednesday, first into
the arms of family who publicly pleaded for his surrender and then into
the hands of Chicago Police who want to question him about the Sunday
night shooting death of a high school student on a CTA bus.
Denise Sluterbeck's long-held marathon dreams ended abruptly last year
when she was ordered to stop running the Chicago Marathon eight miles
before the finish line.
Chicago garbage collection crews work fewer than six hours a day -- and
get "paid to do nothing" for 25 percent of their time on the clock --
costing taxpayers at least $14.3 million a year, according to an
internal investigation denounced as a "witch hunt."
Republican John McCain unrelentingly laid into Democrat Barack Obama in
Tuesday's debate as though he were a man dropping in the polls -- which
McCain is.
A Chicago family has reached out to police, saying their relative is
the man being sought for the fatal shooting of a high school student on
a CTA bus Sunday night.
His voice quaking with emotion, Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan refused
Tuesday to accept an anti-gun violence award, saying "I don't feel I've
earned it'' with student deaths on track to double this school year.
Folks swarmed downtown election offices in record numbers Tuesday --
the last chance to register to vote at your local polling place in the
Nov. 4 presidential election.
Inaugurating what promises to be a brutal last month of the
presidential campaign, the candidates and their surrogates blasted each
other from the swing states and over the airwaves Monday with some of
the most vicious accusations to date, instead of talking about the
economic meltdown.
Federal prosecutors asked a judge Monday to indefinitely postpone Tony
Rezko's scheduled Oct. 28 sentencing on corruption charges,
acknowledging they are engaged in talks with the former top political
fund-raiser for Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Blagojevich and others "that
could affect . . . sentencing."
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused
Democrat Barack Obama of ''palling around with terrorists'' because of
an association with a former '60s radical, a harsh attack on his
character that she repeated at three separate campaign events without
substantiation.
A 17-year-old girl was fatally shot Sunday night when an argument led a man to open fire into a CTA bus on the South Side. Police said a female passenger was shot on a bus at the 7100 block
of South Woodlawn Avenue about 10 p.m. The shooting happened when a man
on the bus got into an argument with another rider, exited the bus and
fired shots into it, striking the victim, police News Affairs said.
