Erin Meyer

Woman seeks to exhume Gacy victim to see if he's her son.

CHICAGO -- More than 30 years after Sherry Marino buried her 14-year-old son, she is asking for permission to exhume the boy's remains.

Officials identified Michael Marino as one of 33 victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy almost four years after his mother reported him missing. But according to papers filed with Cook County Circuit Court Thursday, his mother has long harbored doubts that the body was that of her son.

Police horse dies of seizure as onlookers watch

CHICAGO -- The horse reared and struggled as if fighting an invisible assailant.

Chicago Officer Paul Casasanto, on mounted patrol at North Avenue beach, had slid off the horse as it began to struggle inexplicably.

"Mik just went down," Casasanto said in to a police radio while holding tightly to the horse's reins.

Casasanto tried to calm his horse while people in bathing suits and jogging clothes began closing in.

"Stay back," he warned, as the animal continued to kick its powerful back legs.

After several weakening attempts to stand, the horse folded to the ground and rolled onto its side.

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