Ottawa Man Charged With Breaking Infants ribs
(Ottawa, IL) -- A LaSalle man is in jail on charges that he punched a seven-week-old baby in the ribs. Twenty-one-year-old Kyle N. Johnson was arrested by LaSalle Police Wednesday night after they received a call to check on a child's welfare ...Read More
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Federal Judge Orders Former Mayor To Pay Millions
(Hammond, IN) -- A federal judge is telling former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick and two others to pay more than 108-million-dollars to the city for his role in a "sidewalks-for-votes" scandal. ...Read More
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More Information On Boston Blackie's Charges Released
(Chicago, IL) -- More details have been released on the fraud charges filed by Illinois prosecutors against the owners of the popular restaurant chain, Boston Blackie's. Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez says Nick Giannis was arrested Thursday trying to get out of the country ...Read & Hear More
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Special Court Rules Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
(Undated) -- Vaccines containing a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own. That's the ruling handed down Friday by the special U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The ruling stems from the case of an Oregon family who claimed their son's regressive autism was caused by a vaccine ...Read More
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FCC To Announce Major High-Speed Internet Push
(New York, NY) -- A ten-year plan to make high-speed Internet America's number one means of communication will be presented to Congress on Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission. As it stands now, approximately one-third of Americans lack access to high-speed Internet service, either by choice or because the cost is too high ...Read More
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Author Talks About History of Daylight Saving Time
(Undated) -- The history of Daylight Saving Time involves war, energy and an early American who liked to sleep in. Most people in the U.S. will turn their clocks back an hour this weekend as Daylight Saving Time comes to an end ...Read & Hear More
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