A deadly Wednesday as 8 people killed in homicides in Chicago
A teen in a park on the West Side. Two men in their 30s in Uptown on the North Side. A woman in her 20s in the South Side's Morgan Park neighborhood.
Chicago's most recent spasm of violence touched all corners of the city.
On Wednesday alone, eight people were shot to death in homicides. A ninth victim — an 11-year-old boy — died of an apparent accidental shooting.
That marked the most homicides in a single day in Chicago in more than a decade, according to a Tribune analysis of department data.
Kentucky clerks to issue marriage licenses as their boss is jailed
A defiant county clerk went to jail Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, but five of her deputies agreed to issue the licenses themselves, potentially ending the church-state standoff in Rowan County, Kentucky.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning said he had no choice but to jail Kim Davis for contempt after she insisted that her "conscience will not allow" her to follow federal court rulings on gay marriage.
"God's moral law conflicts with my job duties," Davis told the judge before she was taken away by a U.S. marshal.
Slain Fox Lake cop's funeral set for Monday in Antioch
As Lake County authorities waited for analysis of key evidence in the fatal shooting of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz — including a gun recovered from the crime scene and newly obtained surveillance video — officials announced the slain Fox Lake police veteran's funeral will be Monday in Antioch.
Public viewing will begin at 9 a.m. at Antioch High School, the Lake County sheriff's office announced Thursday afternoon. The funeral will be at 1 p.m.
At least 12 people shot dead, including 11-year-old boy, since late Tuesday in Chicago
At least 12 people have died and 13 others have been wounded in separate shootings in Chicago between late Tuesday and early Thursday, including the accidental shooting of an 11-year-old boy, police said.
In the latest fatal shooting, a 39-year-old man was killed and a 52-year-old man was wounded in a shooting around 5:10 a.m. Thursday in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side, said Officer Janel Sedevic, a Chicago Police Department spokeswoman.
The two were inside a building in the 4700 block of South King Drive when they were shot.
1 dead, 1 critically injured in Lake Shore Drive accident
A man was killed, and another was left in critical condition after a vehicle flipped over Thursday evening at Lake Shore Drive and Hollywood Avenue near Sheridan Road.
The accident, which involved one vehicle, happened shortly before 7:25 p.m. near Sheridan Road where Lake Shore Drive ends. A witnesses said the car flipped over unto the bike path.
One person is dead, and another person was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to Chicago Fire Department Chief Joe Roccosalva.
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