TOKYO, (UPI) -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced that their Playstation 4 gaming console has surpassed 30 million units sold worldwide.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - December 2, 2015 12:51 p.m.
Perhaps it’s the tough economy, perhaps it’s simply greed, but people are going to extremes measures to make ends meet these days, even involving some “creative” criminal activity. For example, a husband and wife team recently faked the deaths of their living children to scam their employer out of money. And it didn’t stop there. They also stole their coworkers’ identities.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 12:38 p.m.
Annette Clark misses her son, Rasul “Rocky” Clark, who died just three years ago.
So, she keeps many of his sports awards in a room in her south suburban home in Robbins, Ill. In November, Clark received another visible reminder of her son – a nearby street bearing his name.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 12:02 p.m.
In the mist of protests over an officer’s shooting of an African American teen, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Sunday that the city will expand its cop body camera program to six additional police districts by mid-2016.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - December 2, 2015 11:41 a.m.
It’s very inspiring when inner-city Chicago teens, who are currently living in a very challenging environment, get involved in something constructive and positive. It’s even more uplifting when their involvement is motivated by healthy living habits.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 11:30 a.m.
In one of Chicago’s most high profile killings, a 27-year-old Lansing, Ill. man was charged with murdering 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.
Corey Morgan was accused last week of being involved in a shooting that killed Lee on Nov. 2 in an alley near 80th and Damien streets.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 11:13 a.m.
Citing public trust, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday dismissed embattled Police Supt. Garry McCarthy after recent protests over a police officer fatally shooting an African American teen.
Dancer Misty Copeland is working on a health-and-fitness book.
Grand Central Life & Style, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, announced Thursday that Copeland’s “Ballerina Body” is scheduled for 2017. Copeland, the first African-American woman to become the American Ballet Theatre’s principal dancer, is a member of President Barack Obama’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - November 25, 2015 2:07 p.m.
The weather is changing and it’s getting cold and blustery here in Chicago. It’s time to pull out the heavy winter jackets. And of course the holidays are right upon us…staring us in the face. That means it’s time to shop for toys and gifts for the little ones.
By: Norman Parish - November 25, 2015 1:53 p.m.
When Telah Amauri Anderson was just 2 years-old, she pointed to her family’s television and proclaimed: “that’s what I want to do.”
So, the Matteson, Ill., girl’s mother enrolled her in a performing arts school.
“She was always dancing all over the place,” Charla Anderson recalled about her daughter. “She would repeat lines from TV. We knew we had to get her into something.”
By: Larissa M. Tyler - November 25, 2015 1:40 p.m.
Nothing puts us in the holiday spirit like good ‘ole holiday music. It’s just something about those classic favorites; White Christmas, Let it Snow, and of course Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. These songs cheer us up. They are comforting. They make us feel warm and fuzzy. And more than likely this holiday season, you’re going to hear them playing somewhere.
By: Norman Parish - November 25, 2015 1:37 p.m.
Regina Clippard immediately panics when she gets off of the bus and then walks two blocks in the dark every night to her apartment, after she leaves her job as a home healthcare worker.
The single 50-year-old woman says at least two people were shot in the last year near her home in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.
By: Norman Parish - November 25, 2015 1:23 p.m.
A white Chicago Police Officer was charged Tuesday with murdering a 17-year-old black youth – believed to be the first on-duty city officer charged with murder in more than three decades.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An auto industry magazine has named the 2016 Chevrolet Volt its "Green Car of the Year."
By: Norman Parish - November 25, 2015 12:06 p.m.
Hotel visits, bullets and lawsuits will all cost more in Cook County next year.
The increases are a result of tax and fee hikes Cook County Commissioners approved with a 12-5 vote last week for Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s $4.5 billion budget in the 2016 fiscal year.
“This is not an easy budget,” said Preckwinkle in a news conference after the meeting. “But it is a responsible budget that tackles our needs head-on, without dodging tough decisions or kicking the can down the road.”
By: Norman Parish - November 25, 2015 11:47 a.m.
For the last few months, Dedra Delaney has attended meeting after meeting trying to stop a planned marijuana dispensary from opening at 1111 E. 87th St. in Chicago.
Last Friday, Delaney and two busloads of Chatham neighborhood residents got what they wanted.
A city staffer at the Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) meeting announced that Haborside Illinois Grown Medicine, LLC (IGM) withdrew its petition for the planned dispensary.
The week of Thanksgiving, West Humboldt Park’s Turkey Chop Gourmet Grill will serve an extra helping of community love by giving away 250 turkeys Monday at noon, then serving free Thanksgiving dinner Thursday to 1,000-plus people identified as in need or homeless.
Washington, D.C. — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan last week joined with the Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcement authorities around the country to announce the first coordinated federal-state enforcement initiative targeting deceptive and abusive debt collection practices.
Former McDonald's CEO Don Thompson is flipping a new type of burger—one made without meat.
Spike Lee gets so excited when talking about movies, he can barely sit down. Reflecting on his career as he prepares to accept an honorary Oscar, the 58-year-old suddenly stands up and bounds around as he considers various ideas, at times bellowing so exuberantly, it echoes. Lee laughs as easily as he gets serious, and says he's profoundly touched by the film academy honor he'll receive Saturday at the seventh annual Governors Awards.
