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Delisa Tucker lost her brother to gun violence two years ago, and almost lost her 6-year-old daughter years before that. Early Wednesday morning, she was attending to yet another family tragedy, the weekend killing of her 14-year-old son Kevin Tinker just down the street from their home in Roseland. Friends say she was steps from a memorial to her son, intending to light a candle, when there was gunfire. Tucker was hit in the chest and died. "It's just sad that this whole family, basically, to be killed over time," said Pastor Donovan Price, who said he consoled Tucker at...

Once it was revealed that Redmond is a registered child sex offender, residents in the community were outraged by the hire. The Mayor of Dolton, Illinois hired a registered child sex offender to be a code enforcement officer tasked with inspecting homes and businesses. Lavelle Redmond (46) spent 24 years in prison after pleading guilty for participating in the brutal gang rape and beating of two underage girls. Redmond, along with three others kidnapped and sexually assaulted two girls, ages 13 and 14, in the Roseland neighborhood in 1991, according to FOX 32 News. Redmond is a registered child sex...

A Chicago man featured in a CNN documentary about the Windy City — talking about gang violence — was shot dead at the age of 22. Lee McCullum was featured in a 2014 episode of “Chicagoland" that focused in part on his desire to leave the high-crime Roseland neighborhood and go to college. He was previously pulled by gang affiliation, he said, but was eventually named to the honor roll and crowned prom king at his high school. The young man was found dead early Thursday morning with a gunshot wound to the head in the neighborhood just south of...

After working at Business International Corporation (a company that provided international business information to corporate clients) and NYPIRG, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city's South Side. It was during this time that Obama, who said he "was not raised in a religious household," joined the Trinity United Church of Christ. He also visited relatives in Kenya, which included an emotional visit to the graves of his father and paternal grandfather. Obama entered Harvard Law School in...

ROSELAND -- Battles over zoning and permits appear to be a common problem lately in the small town of Roseland. But residents now have a complaint that's not just about small town ordinances. It's about the nation's Constitution and its First Amendment, freedom of speech. This week, some residents have pitched signs in their yards, urging the two married members of the three-person Town Council, David and Dorothy Snyder, to resign. In return, residents have received warnings or tickets from the town, telling them they are breaking the law. "We don't have freedom of speech. We can't say what we...

The Roseland police chief recently knocked on Trish Lane's door and told her that her front-yard parking pad was illegal. "It was the weirdest thing,'' Lane said. K.C. Pocius, the Roseland zoning czar, said the visit to Lane's home is part of an ongoing effort to clean up the town. Town Council Member David Snyder echoed Pocius' comment. He said too many Roseland homeowners have let their properties deteriorate, and something needs to be done to tidy up the town. The problem with Lane's supposed violation is that the town doesn't have an ordinance that prohibits parking in the front...

Windows of police car, bank broken in Roseland Rocks, concrete thrown at police; officers fire rubber bullets, gas A line of Sonoma County sheriff's deputies move forward at Sepastopol Road and West Avenue in Roseland as they fire off smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse Cinco de Mayo revelers Thursday. Santa Rosa's Cinco de Mayo street celebrations erupted in violence once again Thursday despite a show of force by police, who used rubber bullets, pepper spray and smoke grenades to disperse disorderly crowds. The clashes in the Roseland neighborhood mirrored events last year, when surging crowds on Sebastopol Road...

Birth rate among Roseland teens, especially Latinas, alarms officials Teen pregnancy has become such a serious concern in southwest Santa Rosa that medical providers plan to ask the school board to let them prescribe contraceptives at the health center on the Elsie Allen High School campus. "It's so prevalent that it's having a serious impact on our community," said Enrique Gonzalez-Mendez, medical director of the Elsie Allen Health Center, which sees five teenage pregnancies a month. "It's a tragedy to see the potential of so many of our young men and women hindered by pregnancies." Roseland, which health officials have...