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A body discovered floating in the Chicago River near Merchandise Mart this morning is believed to be that of Chicago Public Schools Board President Michael Scott, police said. Police have not positively identified the man, but Scott’s Cadillac was found nearby and Scott’s family had reported him missing earlier in the day....

Just heard on the police scanner that 4 anti-olympic protestors have been arrested for tearing down and burning a "Chicago 2016™" olympic flag at a protest in Downtown Chicago this evening. The charge was criminal damage to property.

BULLETIN TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 1 NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI 805 AM HST TUE SEP 29 2009 TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WATCH A TSUNAMI WATCH IS ISSUED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE AT 0805 AM HST. AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS ORIGIN TIME - 0748 AM HST 29 SEP 2009 COORDINATES - 15.3 SOUTH 171.0 WEST LOCATION - SAMOA ISLANDS REGION MAGNITUDE - 7.9 MOMENT EVALUATION BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A TSUNAMI MAY HAVE BEEN GENERATED BY THIS EARTHQUAKE THAT COULD BE DESTRUCTIVE ON...

Child Labor in 003 - Burger Queen The buck stops at the top, doesn't it? This is a violation of at least a few Child Labor laws we're sure. And a liability issue from the Commander on down who didn't make sure the "officer" had a gun and star. This is classic. A male/1 in full uniform walks into the 3rd district desk and tells them he is from 005 and was sent there to work a traffic car. They get him a locker to use and call in the traffic car. He signs out a radio and jumps in...

COL| Denver| Aircraft Down| DIA-800| Denver International Airport|737 landed with the wing on fire, initial reports of 15 pts, MCI response enroute. M/A:Arapahoe County M/A:Adams County| COL015| 19:06 Not seeing it anywhere else yet. Hear it live here: Denver PD and Fire

Cass County - Four people died in a crash involving a school bus in Cass County Friday afternoon. Three of the dead are confirmed to be students. The bus belongs to the Twin Lakes School Corporation in Monticello. The crash, which also involved two dump trucks, happened on US 24 about six miles west of Logansport......Indiana State Police say the school bus was headed westbound as two dump trucks headed eastbound. A moped or other small vehicle stopped or slowed down to turn. The first dump truck could not stop in time and tried to avoid the moped by moving...

CHICAGO (CBS) ― An American Airlines jet overshot the runway at O'Hare International Airport Monday afternoon, and the Fire Department was sent to the scene. American Airlines said the affected plane was Flight 268, which was headed from Seattle to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. It was diverted to Chicago for an unknown reason, and city Aviation Department officials said the plane was experiencing "electrical problems." After landing, the plane was poised at an angle about halfway off the runway. Passengers on the 757 plane were to exit using air stairs and be brought to the terminal on...

The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon was stopped prematurely Sunday because of the dangers posed to runners in the hot weather. As of 11:45 a.m., police are stopping runners still participating in the race and directing them to Grant Park, according to News Affairs....

Garofalo: Fingers with ink comparable to Nazi salute Actress, liberal radio host calls Republican gesture 'disgusting' Posted: February 3, 2005 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Janeane Garofalo makes a Nazi salute on MSNBC to mock Republicans who dipped their fingers in paint Actress and liberal talk-radio host Janeane Garofalo is taking issue with congressional Republicans who dipped their fingers in ink for President Bush's State of the Union speech as a sign of solidarity with Iraqi voters, likening it to a Nazi salute. Garofalo actually made the salute last night as she provided post-speech commentary on MSNBC's "After Hours"...

Listening to Chicago scanner. EMS plan 1 at 31st and Indiana near Chicago downtown. A suspicious suitcase was thrown from a moving vehicle around 10:00 CST. Package was not able to be x-rayed due to lining inside os suitcase. Bomb techs opened the suitcase finding a liter sized container with liquid, hoses and wires. Evacuations are underway.

NEW YORK (AP) - Don't look for any flatulent horses or impotence cures during commercial breaks at the Academy Awards. The motion picture academy has an unusual hands-on policy to monitor advertising during the Oscars, approving each commercial and enforcing a strict set of rules regarding what can be shown. It will be nothing like the raucous Super Bowl free-for-all. "We want the show to reflect, not a stuffiness, but a dignity appropriate for film's highest honor," said Ric Robertson, executive administrator for the motion picture academy. "We want it to be a family affair that can be appreciated by...

WASHINGTON -- Mayor Richard M. Daley is in Washington until Friday fighting legislation that would limit Chicago's right to sue gun makers. NBC5's Dick Kay reported that Congress is about to approve protection for the gun industry that no other industry in America has: a ban on lawsuits against the gun makers. Chicago and Gary have sued gun manufacturers for hundreds of millions of dollars, claiming the manufacturers know that guns they distribute to certain dealers will be sold to criminals. In Washington Wednesday, Daley and Gary Mayor Scott King appealed to Congress to reject the proposed ban on lawsuits....

Three dozen mortar shells uncovered in Iraq earlier this month had no chemical agents, the Danish army says. It is not clear why initial tests first showed they could contain blister gas, the Danish army said in a statement carried by the AP news agency. The 36 shells were found in southern Iraq buried among building equipment, even though they appeared to have been abandoned for at least 10 years. The US-UK coalition launched the war in Iraq over arms banned by the UN.

Richard Childress, owner of Richard Childress Racing, fielded questions at Daytona International Speedway, many regarding his recent trip to Iraq during the holiday season to visit troops: Q: How was the trip, how long were you there, what did you do and who did you meet? Childress: We were there about five or six days. We met a lot of the troops and spent a lot of time visiting the bases and places they had set up for the troops. We went into some really unique places. The morale the troops still have is really unbelievable. To see what they're...

The Norwegian authorities redetained one of the founder of the Kurdish Ansar al-Islam group in Iraq, al-Mullah Kreikar, yesterday, just 6 month after the authorities dropped terrorism accusations against him because of the lack of evidence. According to the Norwegian daily "Fe Je," it is suspected that al-Mullah Kreikar is involved in suicide attacks carried out by Ansar al-Islam in northern Iraq. Monitoring telephone calls, allowed making links between Kreikar and recent activities for the said Islamic group, in which Kreikar stressed he is no longer leading it, since May 2002, as the paper explained in its site at the...

Suicide bombers - Their mission and Islam ? The Daily Nation, released an image of one of the two suicide bombers who tried to assassinate President Musharraf. The force of the blast detached his face from his head and it flew up and fell of the roof of the nearby police station. He was identified as a bomber from the amount of explosive material on the face. The image has sent a wave of shock among Pakistanis, who by-and-large, have condemned this attack.

There was a time in the recent near past that all one needed to do to bilk a church or Christian organization was to say "praise the Lord, the Lord told me ..." or "the Lord has revealed to me ..." Those words, or any combination thereof, were enough to get the snake charmer the keys to the treasury. And many a church's treasury has been pillaged through the use of such cunning. But stealing the church's money and attempting to steal the very souls of the congregants through subversion of the truth and distortion of facts is heretical. Yet...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: A new Al-Qaeda-style message has been posted on an Islamic website threatening imminent attacks on the United States, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), who translated the posting. The Emergency Response and Research Institute (ERRI) has assessed the translation of the message and believes that despite the generic nature of the claims, it was likely to be authentic and from an Al-Qaeda operative...or someone knowledgeable in Islm and very sympathetic to the cause of the bin-Laden inspired network. However, according to ERRI, it appeared to be a general "call-to-arms" rather than an action message containing...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli archaeologist has found what he says are the oldest remains of a leprosy victim to be uncovered in the Middle East, buried in a biblical valley whose name became a synonym for Hell. Shimon Gibson of Jerusalem's Albright Institute of Archaeological Research discovered the 2,000-year-old remains of a man in a niche in a family burial cave in the city's Hinnom Valley. Gibson said that until now the oldest archaeological findings of leprosy, known in medical terms as Hansen's Disease, were from the Byzantine period, around the fifth century A.D. "As this is from the...