Police officer shot and hostage situation in Chicago
A Chicago police officer was shot in the head during a warrant service and held hostage for over two hours before being released. Officer Joseph Airhart Jr. 45, remained in critical condition after surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Suspect Daniel Salley 41 was wounded and in fair condition. Salley, wanted for a bank robbery, engaged in a standoff with FBI task forces and local police in a residential area near the Loop.
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Daniel Salley
Cook County
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FBI
Salley
Ross Rice
Rice
Paul Meineke
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Lane headed to jail for bank fraud and false statements
Former Chicago Housing Authority chief Vincent Lane, 58, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and three years of supervised release after a jury found he lied to South Shore Bank to obtain more than 600000 in loans and refinanced a 1.9 million project. The case stemmed from actions in 1993 and 1994 while he chaired the CHA, separate from his public duties.
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Chicago
Chicago Housing Authority
Vincent Lane
South Shore Bank
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Lane
Drug use drops in prisons in Illinois
Springfield AP reports that 51 of 4,300 Illinois Department of Corrections employees tested positive for illegal drugs in the fiscal year ended June 30, a 1 percentage point drop from the prior year and part of a four year downward trend. Earlier year figures show 2.2 percent and 3.4 percent positive in earlier starts.
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Springfield
Illinois
Teens held in death of federal prosecutor in Columbia
Four teens aged 16 to 18 are jailed on charges of murder and assault after a August 20 shooting that killed U S prosecutor Abram Braveboy of Illinois at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia. Fellow prosecutor Richard Ferguson was wounded. The youths faced a training program when attacked after dinner.
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Illinois
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Bryan Murray
Willie Murphy Jr
U.S
Michael Messer
Morton Grove
Ill
Richard Gillum Ferguson
Naperville,ll
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Outbreak May Prompt Changes to Pool Sanitation Rules
Health officials tie a cryptosporidiosis outbreak to a Splashdown water park where feces were found in August. Fifty one people sickened, the largest Illinois outbreak in decades, prompting reevaluation of public pool sanitation policies and past changes such as stricter diaper rules for children.
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East Peoria
Illinois
Tom Schaefer
State Department of Public Health
Schaefer
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