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A gunman perched on a rooftop has opened fire on families waving flags and children riding bicycles during an Independence Day parade near the US city of Chicago, killing at least six people and wounding 36 others. The shooting in Highland Park, a community of about 30,000 residents some 40km north of Chicago, Illinois, caused […]
A Chicago man who spent nearly two decades behind bars for murder over a deadly 2003 shooting has been released years after his identical twin confessed to the crime. An emotional Kevin Dugar broke down into tears as he was released from the Cook County jail on Tuesday night and reunited with his loved ones […]
Police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed by a stray bullet over the weekend in Chicago. Melissa Ortega was walking with a guardian on Saturday afternoon when they heard gunshots, according to police. Investigators say the guardian discovered that the child had been struck in the head by […]
A snow leopard has died after contracting Covid-19 at Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois. Rilu, an 11-year-old snow leopard, struggled with Covid-19 induced pneumonia before death, according to a post on the Miller Park Zoo verified Instagram account. “Rilu arrived at the Miller Park Zoo in 2011 from the Oklahoma City Zoo,” the post […]
Amazon is facing questions over health and safety policies at a warehouse in the US state of Illinois after six workers died when the building was destroyed by a tornado.”This never would have happened if they cared about lives over productivity,” the sister of one of the victims commented on social media.The company says its […]
Amazon cargo driver Austin J. McEwen, 26, was an only child who loved to listen to rapper Mac Miller and hunt with his friends.He died trying to shelter from a powerful tornado in the bathroom at an Amazon warehouse on Friday night, according to a coworker.McEwen was one of six workers identified by police on […]
At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the US Midwest and South, demolishing homes, levelling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble, officials said on Saturday. The powerful twisters, which weather forecasters say are unusual in cooler months, […]
A man in Illinois died from rabies about a month after apparently being infected by a bat he found in his room, marking the first human case of the virus in the state since 1954, health officials said on Tuesday. The man, who was in his 80s, woke up last month and found a bat […]
The British government will subsidize a major US fertilizer manufacturer at a cost of several million pounds to taxpayers in order to restart carbon dioxide production vital to Britain’s food supply. The government announced the extraordinary intervention in a statement. The plan should allow Illinois-based CF Industries (CF) to restart one of its two UK […]
Two F-15 pilots ejected on the runway at MidAmerica St Louis airport in Mascoutah, Illinois on Tuesday. It is not clear if their ejection seats malfunctioned or if the pilots punched out. The plane was on the ground when the incident took place and it came to rest off the runway on the grass. The […]
Chicago police have released graphic footage of an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old boy in a dark alley. Bodycam video shows the policeman shouting “Drop it” before shooting Adam Toledo once in the chest on 29 March. The boy does not appear to be holding a weapon in the split second he was shot, but […]
A shooting incident at a bowling alley in Rockford, Illinois left three people dead and three injured on Saturday, police said. A suspect was taken into police custody. “When officers arrived on scene, the shooter was still in the building,” Rockford Police Chief Daniel O’Shea said at a news briefing. “No officers fired their weapons […]