http://wbbm780.com Fri, 9 May 2008 12:47:49 EDT en-us Detectives are investigating an alleged sexual assault at an elementary school. Fri, 9 May 2008 11:27:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025735 Gas is selling for $4.28/gallon at one Chicago station, going for $4.19/gallon at no fewer than nine others. Get &quot;low&quot; prices. <strong>COMMENT</strong> Fri, 9 May 2008 09:08:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025196 Fri, 9 May 2008 10:44:00 EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_GAME?SITE=WBBMAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Fri, 9 May 2008 10:41:00 EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_ENDORSEMENT?SITE=WBBMAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WBBM) - Survivors of a slain Arlington Heights man are suing both the widow and the estate of the alleged killer.The circuit court suit blames the murder of 20-year-old Justin Newman on the late Ari Squire but also names Squire's wife Denise as a co-conspirator, even though she has not been arrested, charged, or indicted.Indeed her attorney, Elliott Pinsell, said Ms. Squire knew nothing about the scheme and actually passed a polygraph administered by a private attorney.Lake... Fri, 9 May 2008 10:53:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025584 WINNETKA, Ill. (STNG) - Suspended New Trier High School senior Jonah Greenthal was back at school Thursday - but only briefly so he could take his advanced placement exams for college.&nbsp;<br /> WBBM's Bob Roberts has more.<br /> Greenthal is charged with misdemeanor computer tampering for allegedly breaking into the school's electronic student records.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> Friends and other seniors said Greenthal Fri, 9 May 2008 10:11:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025452 Fri, 9 May 2008 09:13:00 EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IL_CHICAGO_VIOLENCE_ILOL-?SITE=WBBMAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (STNG) - A local beauty shop has been closed after a recent raid by the Police Department's tactical narcotics team.Taneisha Stackhouse, 29, hair stylist and owner of Stack's House of Style, said the salon at 1800 Sheridan Road was crowded with customers and children the evening of May 1 when a SWAT team burst in with guns drawn and a drug-sniffing dog."They yelled 'Freeze! Put your (expletive) hands in the air,'" she said.Stackhouse, who surveyed her ransacked... Fri, 9 May 2008 09:42:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025338 JOLIET, Ill. (STNG) - The daughter of Drew Peterson's second wife and the sister of his third wife appeared Thursday before the grand jury investigating the third wife's death and his fourth wife's disappearance.Sue Doman, the sister of dead third wife Kathleen Savio, said Savio's former boyfriend, Steve Maniaci, testified before her Thursday. Maniaci spoke to Savio on the phone two nights before she was found drowned in her dry bathtub in March 2004.State police initially found no indication... Fri, 9 May 2008 09:33:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025315 WHEATON, Ill. (STNG) - The village of Lisle has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million by a DuPage County jury to a Lombard construction firm.Tires 'N Tracks Inc. filed the civil suit against the village in June 2003, citing breach of contract for the construction of a relief sanitary sewer.On Thursday a jury awarded the Lombard-based firm $914,000 plus court costs.According to a release from TNT's attorneys, Chicago-based firm Much Shelist, after beginning work on the sewer, differing site... Fri, 9 May 2008 09:26:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025295 Fri, 9 May 2008 08:33:00 EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IL_JUDGE_DUI_ILOL-?SITE=WBBMAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Fri, 9 May 2008 08:30:00 EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FACEBOOK_SAFEGUARDS_ILOL-?SITE=WBBMAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Fri, 9 May 2008 08:29:00 EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBA_JIM_LITKE_ILOL-?SITE=WBBMAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT As another witness says he saw Austin, Tex. police being unnecessarily rough with Benson the Bears running back. <strong>WATCH NOW</strong> Fri, 9 May 2008 08:15:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025012 Cops arrest man. Happened in Englewood. Fri, 9 May 2008 07:34:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2024788 But a last-minute motion by Kelly's attorneys could result in yet another delay in the child porn case. Fri, 9 May 2008 07:24:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2024760 CHICAGO (STNG) - Police are asking for the public’s help in finding two motorists in separate hit-and-run accidents Tuesday -- including one that claimed the life of a woman -- on the city’s North and Southwest Sides.About 10:15 a.m. in the LakeView neighborhood on the North Side, a rented U-Haul pick-up truck was westbound on Belmont Avenue when the driver ran a red light and struck a Ford sedan that was southbound on Sheridan Road, according to police News Affairs Officer Marcel... Fri, 9 May 2008 11:01:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2025611 Thu, 8 May 2008 23:12:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2021751 Thu, 8 May 2008 22:56:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2021726 A north suburban woman was arrested Wednesday following a four-month investigation of prostitution in Deerfield Township.<br /> Thu, 8 May 2008 17:39:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2020828 Alleged mobster Frank &quot;The German&quot; Schweihs has eluded law enforcement officials twice but prosecutors said Thursday they are not through trying to bring him to trial. <br /> <br /> Schweihs, 78, went on the run three years ago when prosecutors unveiled their sweeping Operation Family Secrets indictment against the top echelon of the Chicago mob. <br /> <br /> He was missing for eight months before FBI Thu, 8 May 2008 17:34:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2020825 The head of Northern Illinois University has decided on a $7.7 million plan to remodel the lecture hall where five people were slain by a suicidal gunman on Valentine's Day. Thu, 8 May 2008 16:54:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2020670 Major U.S. airlines, including Chicago-based United Airlines, have again raised ticket prices -- this time by $20 roundtrip -- due to higher fuel costs. Thu, 8 May 2008 15:48:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2020358 Police issued a community alert Thursday asking for help in apprehending a man accused of ordering a woman into his vehicle at gunpoint and sexually assaulting her last week on the South Side.<br /> The woman was walking in the 9000 block of South Ashland Avenue about 9:40 a.m. on April 29 when she was offered a ride by a man in a vehicle. The woman continued walking until the man pulled out a handgun Thu, 8 May 2008 15:19:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2020205 A pedestrian was reportedly fatally struck by a vehicle Downtown on Thursday afternoon. Thu, 8 May 2008 14:25:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2019972 A top Senate Democrat says he plans to rewrite a resolution blocking legislative pay raises to expose what he sees as some lawmakers' hypocrisy.<br /> The House approved blocking raises for themselves and other top officials on Wednesday.<br /> But Senator Rickey Hendon says he'll try to change that measure to ensure that if the raises do take effect, they won't go to any lawmaker who voted against the Thu, 8 May 2008 13:24:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2019637 Former Naperville resident Bryan E. Halstead was freed from prison a little more than four months ago, after serving a 21-year sentence for raping an Aurora girl in 1985 and brutalizing her family in their home. Thu, 8 May 2008 13:15:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2019583 Three people were injured Tuesday afternoon when a semi truck rear-ended another vehicle and pushed it into oncoming traffic in north suburban Glenview. Thu, 8 May 2008 13:12:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2019576 A south suburban man was struck and killed by a train in south suburban Harvey on Thursday morning. Thu, 8 May 2008 12:58:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2019515 The Chicago Postal Service says a new survey shows mail&nbsp;delivery has gotten better - however officials do admit that the complaints keep rolling in. Thu, 8 May 2008 10:53:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018951 CHICAGO (WBBM) - Some Chicago area companies and individuals have contributed to one planeload of supplies that's still waiting to get clearance to go in from the Myanmar government.WBBM's Steve Miller reports.<BR><BR>For more than 25 years, the AmeriCares organization has been sending supplies for humanitarian relief.What makes this different is that the coordination is not going on at the site of the disaster - in Myanmar - but in Bangkok - an hour and a half away by air.Christoph Gorder,... Thu, 8 May 2008 11:06:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2019012 A suburban mayor is feeling the heat after taking aldermen, department heads and city employees - along with some spouses - on a weekend training seminar at an upscale vacation resort. Thu, 8 May 2008 10:50:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018949 GARY, Ill. (STNG) - Without a gun handy, an angry Jawaun Woods used the only weapon he had to assault his father on Election Day, police said Wednesday."You know what, I got my car, I will run you over and kill your ass," Woods, 20, said to his father, Lawrence Smith, the police report states.Woods had taken his mother from their home in the 1000 block of Harrison Street to her polling place at 11th and Jackson, police said.While he was stopped in the alley, Woods argued with his... Thu, 8 May 2008 10:39:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018910 (STNG) - Two Bellwood men have been charged with murder in the death of a 21-year-old Hillside woman found partially clothed and strangled in a vacant lot Monday afternoon on the West Side, police said.Martin D. Lyons, 20, and Nico Lewis, 18, both of the 500 block of Frederick Avenue in Bellwood, were each charged with first-degree murder, police said. They are scheduled to appear later Thursday for a bond hearing in Violence Court (Br. 66) at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse, 2600 S.... Thu, 8 May 2008 10:37:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018903 Thu, 8 May 2008 10:23:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018850 Some say the punishment doesn't fit the crime, others say he broke the rules and has to pay. What do you think? Thu, 8 May 2008 10:11:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018799 GURNEE, Ill. (AP) - Thousands of midwestern science students will spend the day learning about physics at a northern Illinois theme park.Armed with calculators and a physics manual, 10,000 students from schools in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan will spend the day studying the principles of kinetic and potential energy, velocity and acceleration aboard rides at Six Flags Great America.Officials with the theme park say the so-called ``Physics Day'' allows students to apply classroom... 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Thu, 8 May 2008 08:06:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018279 "I have been shot four times, stabbed over 13 times, I have been strangled, beaten." Thu, 8 May 2008 07:50:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2018157 Passengers now can pick a security line at Midway Airport depending on their travel experience. 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Wed, 7 May 2008 17:37:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2013764 An ex-Glendale Heights teacher who carried on a year-long sexual relationship with one of her former students &mdash; a 15-year-old boy &mdash; was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison.<br /> Wed, 7 May 2008 16:39:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2013491 Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in Chicago Wednesday to lend support to Community Support Services, a group that provides services to the developmentally disabled and their families.<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Archbishop Tutu said that when he battled apartheid in South Africa, he would use the analogy of &quot;big noses&quot; instead of skin color, to show how ridiculous apartheid's Wed, 7 May 2008 16:17:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2013370 Police are looking for two men Wednesday who were involved in a crash in the Lakeview neighborhood Tuesday morning that left a 62-year-old woman dead. Wed, 7 May 2008 16:11:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2013363 &quot;Maybe I should become a police officer so that I can get away with killing two people,&quot; victim's sister says. Wed, 7 May 2008 15:31:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2013140 After six long years, another delay is possible.*?! Wed, 7 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2012977 Chicago State University officials say they've named an interim president. Wed, 7 May 2008 14:52:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2012951 &nbsp;A homeless shelter in Park Ridge? Not so fast. COMMENT HERE<br /> Wed, 7 May 2008 14:36:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2012865 <P><FONT size=2>Beats Clinton in North Carolina, falls just short in an Indiana cliffhanger.</FONT> </P> Wed, 7 May 2008 09:06:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2008432 <P>But, how did she die? Grandparents buried there.</P> Wed, 7 May 2008 07:39:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2011073 Wed, 7 May 2008 01:55:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2008438 Wed, 7 May 2008 01:57:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2008038 The economy was the top issue by far in both states, according to interviews with voters as they left their polling places Wed, 7 May 2008 01:51:00 EDT http://wbbm780.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=2008432