Ridgeland Avenue and felt a needle poke his finger, according to an alert on the Facebook page for

One teenager is dead and another injured in separate shootings Sunday afternoon, according to Chicago police.A 19-year-old man was shot in his left side and left arm Sunday at about 2: 07 p.m.in the Lower West Side neighborhood.... Police said he was shot by an unknown gunman while standing on the sidewalk in the 2300 block of South Oakley Avenue. Advertisement He was transported to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, where he later died, authorities said. The Cook County medical examiner’s

The man suffered a wound to the right shoulder, and was taken to U of C Medical Center where he was listed in fair condition. About 6: 50 p.m., a 31-year-old man was shot in the Near North neighborhood in the first block of East Huron Street.... The man was inside a vehicle when he was shot multiple times in the body.... He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where was listed in critical condition, police said. About 6 p.m., a 46-year-old man was shot in the shoulder on the 500 block of West 63r

Nancy New, 69, and Zachary New, 39, agreed to testify against others in what the state auditor has called Mississippi's largest public corruption case in the past two decades.... They each answered repeatedly: “ Yes, ma'am.” The mother and son ran the nonprofit Mississippi Community Education Center, which received millions of dollars from Temporary Assistance to Needy Families and was supposed to spend it to help poor people.... Zachary New pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, which carries

A passenger climbs the narrow staircase to the CTA Red Line Sheridan station platform on Nov.... The legislation sets aside$ 1.75 billion in grants for transit agencies to make their stations fully accessible, a program modeled after the Chicago Transit Authority’s 20-year plan to place elevators in all of its stations.“ This is groundbreaking, ” Duckworth said.... “ It’s an issue for all legacy rail systems, like Boston, Oakland, Chicago and New York, but it also applies to bus stations as we