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Man killed by train can be held liable after body part flew into bystander

Last updated Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 6:19pm

CHICAGO -- Ruling in what it called a "tragically bizarre" case, an appeals court found that a man killed by a train while crossing the tracks at a Metra station can be held responsible after a part of his body sent airborne by the collision struck and injured a bystander.

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Cantrell Tremble, 18, adjusts his pants after a court hearing held by hearing officer Scott Dillner at the Lynwood Village Hall, August 11, 2011, in Lynwood, Illinois. Tremble and many other young men have been ticketed by Lynwood police for wearing saggy pants. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

More bans on saggy pants in schools

Dennis Sullivan, Steve Schmadeke Chicago Tribune

Last updated Monday, August 29, 2011 - 9:45am

CHICAGO -- When police arrived outside a Lynwood, Ill., party last month to check for curfew violators, Bowen High School student Cantrell Tremble, 18, wasn't worried about getting a ticket. So he was surprised when police cited him for the way he wore his pants.

"(The officer) looked and saw ... I was sagging," Tremble said recently. "It's very unfair. Everybody dresses the same way."

While the case against Tremble was dropped after the ticketing officer didn't appear at a hearing, a Chicago Tribune review of police records found that south suburban Lynwood is assessing fines as high as $750 for those caught wearing sagging pants on public property. Police, who say the $750 fines were made in error, more commonly assess fines of $50 to $250.

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Officers fired for failing to properly investigate sexual assault

Chicago Tribune, Steve Schmadeke

Last updated Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 5:16pm

CHICAGO -- Two University Park, Ill., police officers have been fired for failing to properly investigate a reported sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl, allegedly by someone one of the officers knew.

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Man pleads guilty to killing brother's cat, texting him about it

Chicago Tribune, Steve Schmadeke

Last updated Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 3:08pm

CHICAGO -- Enraged after his older brother had an affair with his fiancee, an Illinois man killed his brother's cat, then texted him a photo of it along with the message: "This is what you did to me."

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Fatal robbery may be linked to 'honeybee' shootings

Chicago Tribune, Kristen Schorsch, Steve Schmadeke

Last updated Monday, December 13, 2010 - 10:43am

CHICAGO -- Illinois law-enforcement authorities are looking closely at a would-be robber killed Saturday as the "honeybee gunman" suspect in an October shooting spree that killed one and wounded two others in Illinois and Indiana, sources told the Chicago Tribune.

The robber's vehicle matches the description of the gunman's 1992 light-blue Chevy truck, and the gun used in the Saturday attack at L.A. Tan in southwest suburban Orland Park is a revolver of the same caliber used in the October shootings, sources said Sunday.

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