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A woman was fatally struck by roofing material during damaging storms Tuesday afternoon in Gary, Indiana. Paula Plebanski, 58, was found by the Lake County Coroner’s Office around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday in a parking lot in the 5200 block of …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Laura Murillo’s arrest by ICE last fall was a rupture, both for the city’s immigrant community and for the life she had built around work and her daughters. Six months later, Murillo returned home to …

A gunman fled after shooting a 14-year-old boy during an argument early Thursday in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the city’s Far South Side, police said. The teen was in the 11500 block of South Church Street around 1:45 a.m. …

  The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a man’s death sentence for masterminding the beating deaths of an 81-year-old man and his 79-year-old wife in their La Habra Heights home in an effort to take over the male victim’s …

Malibu has declared a local emergency due to worsening wildfire conditions, allowing the city to expedite the removal of homeless encampments in areas considered at high risk for fires, officials announced. The City Council unanimously approved the declaration Monday after …

As every schoolchild knows, the Rolling Stones, then nearly unknown, made their U.S. debut at San Bernardino’s Swing Auditorium on June 5, 1964, to a warm response. At a bookstore recently, spotting Bob Spitz’s 2026 book “The Rolling Stones: The …

By MELISSA GOLDIN An enduring conspiracy theory has resurfaced on social media after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit western Colombia on Monday, with users blaming a research program in Alaska for the disaster. Posts falsely claim that the earthquake, which …

By PATRICK WHITTLE PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is scheduled to be the featured speaker at a Labor Day rally in what may be one of his first public appearances since ending his campaign. Platner …

Darline Graham, the sister of the late U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who is serving out her brother’s term and running for his Senate seat with the endorsement of President Donald Trump, advanced to an August 25 runoff election against …

Through the window of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle as it pulled away last September, Laura Murillo could see her tamale stand near the busy Home Depot on 47th Street and Western Avenue. A folding table held coolers, …

Police are looking for a white SUV involved in a shooting early Thursday that left a man dead and two other people wounded in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. Just after 3 a.m., two men and a woman were in …

DEAR ABBY: I have been widowed for seven years. My husband served in the Air Force in Saigon during the conflict in Vietnam. We met and married shortly after he returned from his hitch overseas. We had two daughters together. …

In August of 1969, Chicago welcomed Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins to the city only a few weeks after their stop on the moon. Confetti cascaded down from skyscrapers in a ticker-tape parade and millions lined …

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according …

By FRED SHUSTER, City News Service A judge today blocked the Trump administration’s decision to suspend federal funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority over allegations of fraud and widespread mismanagement, finding that the abrupt loss of cash would …

By Nathan Risser, Bloomberg News It’s peak driving season in the U.S., and gasoline and diesel prices have never been this expensive this late in the year. Gas and diesel prices are at a record seasonal high, according to data …

This is the first week when local high school football teams can play an official game. It is called Week 00, which precedes Week 0 when the majority of area teams will begin. There are three teams from the LA …

By JOSH FUNK and RIO YAMAT Broken engine parts shattered a window on a Ryanair plane shortly after takeoff in Greece last month, causing a man’s head to be sucked into the hole in the fuselage before his fellow passengers …

Like that kid at your high school who was somehow always a step ahead of everyone else in listening to the next cool band, Chicago theater audiences recently have been given plenty of opportunities to crow about seeing future hits …

By KRISTEN GELINEAU GAUR, Nepal (AP) — The young mother’s breath had grown ragged. Inside her mud home in rural Nepal, she hunched over in agony, pain pummeling her pregnant belly, her swollen legs scarcely able to support her. Kabita …