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Waukesha, Wis. — For her whole life, 67-year-old Sharon Millard was so shy she used to ask her identical twin sister to go on dates in her place in high school.
But ever since Nov. 21, when Darrell Brooks allegedly plowed into dozens of people at the Waukesha Christmas parade, killing six people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring up to 60 others, Millard has felt compelled to speak about the atrocity she witnessed. One of the people killed was Millard’s fellow “Dancing Granny” — 79-year-old Virginia “Ginny” Sorenson (Snip) He drove the car in a “zig-zag motion” so as to “strike and hurt as many people as possible”
Chicago Sun-Times,
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Katie Anthony
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About 100 CTA drivers marched from City Hall to Millennium Park Saturday, temporarily shutting down the corner of Michigan Avenue and Washington Street as they demanded the city increase protections for public transit workers — including by giving them their own police force. (Snip) The demonstration came a week after a driver was beaten at the same Loop intersection and hospitalized. In September, a driver was shot in the jaw when he asked a passenger to step off the bus at the end of another downtown route.
The union’s primary demand is that the CTA get their own police force, similar to Metra’s, Hill said.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Rachael Bunyan
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Police in Germany have gone the extra mile when it comes to enforcing social distancing measures, with officers seen using giant 1.5 metre rulers during a Covid protest in Frankfurt.
Bizarre video footage shows police officers scanning a crowd of protesters demonstrating against the government's Covid restrictions in the city while holding red and white measuring sticks.
One police officer can be seen approaching protesters and measuring whether they are 1.5 metres apart with the giant ruler on Saturday night. (Snip)Frankfurt Police Department have previously told the public that they would be using the rulers to check compliance with social distancing rules.
Fox 32 [Chicago],
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Nate Rodgers
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Chicago - Another day, another brazen robbery at a business in Chicago's pricey Near North Side neighborhood. This time, the target was the ritzy Gold Coast Auto Gallery.
On Saturday afternoon, two people came to rob this showroom for Lamborghinis and Bentleys. One stayed by the door with a gun. The other used a hammer to smash a display case and grabbed a million dollars worth of watches.(Snip)"He was smart enough not to raise the gun, because my people had guns," said dealership owner Joe Petito. "If he raised that gun, he would have been shot, we’d probably be in court defending ourselves."
ABC7-TV (Chicago),
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Chuck Goudie *
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Chicago (WLS) - Two of Kanye West's greatest hits are entitled "Power" and "Gone."
Both of them aptly describe Chicago street gang magnate Larry Hoover, whom the rapper will be singing on behalf of Thursday night in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Hoover, 71, considered the most powerful and bloodthirsty gangster in Chicago since Al "Scarface" Capone, won't be able to attend the show in SoCal-because he is gone for the rest of his life behind bars at the nation's Supermax prison in Colorado.
Hoover is gone serving six life sentences for his role as the murderous and ruthless chairman of Chicago's feared Gangster Disciples criminal organization. In 1997 he was convicted of
ABC7-TV (Chicago),
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Liz Nagy
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Chicago (WLS) -- A 71-year-old man was shot and killed just steps from a Chicago Public Schools elementary school in Chinatown Tuesday afternoon.
More than a dozen bullet casings mark the scene in the 200-block of West 23rd Place, near John C. Haines Elementary School.Police said around 12:30 p.m., someone driving a silver car fired out the window at a man on the sidewalk.
"They shot him from the car and got out and did it even more," said Justin Tan, who lives nearby. "To me, that sounds like an execution."
Police said the gunman then drove off and left the 71-year-old dying on the street.
Fox News,
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Julia Musto
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More than half of young American adults are either overweight or obese, according to new Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine research.
In a study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a team analyzed a nationally representative sample of 8,015 nonpregnant people ages 18 to 25 from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. (Snip) Fifty-six percent of those in that age group are considered to be either overweight or obese and the number of overweight young adults rose from approximately 18% in the late 1970s to nearly 24% in 2018.
Fox32-TV (Chicago),
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Chicago - A gunshot wound, 21 juveniles arrested, two officers injured, one bus driver attacked, nine curfew citations: It was a busy Saturday night for Chicago police in the downtown area.
Chicago police arrested 21 juveniles downtown on Saturday night after calls came in of a large group. An additional nine juveniles were cited for curfew violations.
Police said one juvenile had a gunshot wound to the arm and was taken to the hospital.
Two officers were injured, including one who had a broken arm.(Snip)Chicago police said that they had "sufficient resources deployed to manage the crowd and ensure public safety."
New York Post,
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A gang member with a lengthy rap sheet fatally stabbed a Columbia University student, injured a tourist and threatened another man in an unprovoked knife frenzy near the Manhattan campus Thursday night, police said.
The terrifying 15-minute stabbing spree started when Columbia grad student Davide Giri, 30, was knifed in the stomach while jogging in Morningside Park (Snip)“I have lived here 25 years and this is as unsafe as it has ever been,” Yolanda Ramos, 69, said.“Violence and homelessness around here has worsened ever since (Mayor) de Blasio opened the jails. It’s open season.”
New York Post,
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John Byrnes
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Once again, Department of Veterans Affairs bureaucrats are making a concerted effort to prevent veterans from using our health-care benefits at community-based providers outside the VA system — despite a law requiring them to do so. (Snip) The results were startling and add to concern about the 20 million appointments that have been canceled, denied or delayed since the pandemic’s start.
The FOIA documents revealed the VA’s failure to follow the law and its own regulatory requirements as it refuses to refer eligible veterans for community care, possibly cancels appointments without patient consent and dissuades veterans from seeking community care in call scripts.
In January 2020 at the Prescott, Ariz., facility, for example,
PJ Media,
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A.J. Kaufman
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Vermont, the left-wing New England paradise, is seeing a record number of its residents hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms. And this crisis comes despite having the highest vaccination rate in the United States. Hospital admissions from COVID in the Green Mountain State have climbed rapidly in the last four months. (Snip) Vermont’s Department of Health said a majority were not “fully vaccinated” against the virus.
“We do know that those who are not fully vaccinated are going to the hospital at a higher rate, and they are staying longer as well, consuming hospital resources,” Vermont Financial Regulation Commissioner Mike Pieciak told a local news affiliate.
New York Post,
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Abraham Ziff
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Elon Musk warned SpaceX employees that the firm could face a possible bankruptcy if it doesn’t make progress on developing the Raptor engines designed to power its Starship rocket.
Starship is the spacecraft that SpaceX intends to use to send humans and cargo to the Moon as well as Mars.
Musk fired off an urgent companywide e-mail on Friday in which he described the “Raptor production crisis” as a “disaster” which was “much worse than it seemed a few weeks ago.”
The firm has so far conducted several short test flights of its prototype from its Texas facility. But in order to send Starship into orbit, it will need as many as
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The CTA employee holding the 'Kim Foxx Must Go' sign is spot on.