Новости за 18.02.2024

A suspect has died amid a shooting in Minnesota that claimed the lives of two police officers and a first responder. That is according to the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association. The association also said negotiations with a suspect, who died, went on for four hours before a SWAT team entered the home in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville early Sunday. Seven children were inside the home. Gov. Tim Walz said that in addition to the officers killed, others were injured.

Two police officers and one first responder were shot and killed early Sunday while responding to a domestic abuse call in a Minneapolis suburb, according to a law enforcement association.

A person was shot and killed Saturday night after he had an argument with another man in Little Italy, police said. Officers responded to the shooting on the 1900 block of West Hastings Street at around 6:32 p.m. The victim said he was in a verbal altercation with a man when he pulled out a gun and shot him, according to police. The man sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and shoulder. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. No arrests have been made. karmanini@chicagotribune.com

Four people were stabbed in Chicago’s United Center neighborhood in the early morning hours Sunday, police said.

Over the course of a yearlong investigation, the Chicago Tribune found that well-known Illinois health systems have allowed workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.

The Tribune hopes to continue reporting on how hospitals and other medical institutions respond when patients report instances of sexual misconduct by health care providers.

When Lincoln University administrator Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey took her own life last month, the news broke the internet, a family friend said in a eulogy during homegoing services in Joliet. People had a lot to say about the death of the 49-year-old Chicago native who served as the Missouri school’s vice president of student affairs:  She was a conduit, a convenor and, most passionately, an advocate, said her friends, family and colleagues. The abundance of national headlines, social media posts... Читать дальше...

Hazel Johnson fought for environmental justice from her home in Altgeld Gardens, a public housing complex in the middle of a "toxic doughnut" on Chicago's Far South Side.

On Feb. 18, 2020, President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for political corruption; Blagojevich left prison hours later and returned home to Chicago.

Will County Executive Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant on Saturday vetoed a county board resolution to stop the expansion of 143rd Street through Homer Glen, saying she mistakenly signed off on it.

It's going to be a long summer for the Chicago White Sox on the field and the political front as the team fights for relevancy and a state-of-the-art ballpark. Stop us if you've heard this before.

Speaking during the Munich Security Conference, Qatar's prime minister noted difficulties in the “humanitarian part” of the negotiations.