’EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES’ | Lawyer says she’s paying money back 
As the award-winning “superstar” principal of Chicago’s Nobel Elementary, Mirna Diaz doubled school test scores as she fought the crack houses, gangs and poverty outside her schoolhouse door. Tuesday, she walked into court and fought a 42-count indictment, charging her with embezzling about $35,000 from the West [...]

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Drew Peterson must have the biggest balls in America. Why did he go on Matt Lauer? Is he fishing for wife #5? He was all GQ with not a worry in the world. The Illinois police officer who resigned after being named a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife said Wednesday [...]

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Drew Peterson must not be sleeping to well these days. His dead and almost forgotten 3rd wife’s body has been exhumed and with it the realization that this scum bag Chicago Cop might be a serial killer. After two divorces Drew must have thought he couldn’t  afford another one and since all went so [...]

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Stacey Peterson would be alive with her children today if the coroner and officials in Chicago would have done the job they claim they are qualified to do.  Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil, who reviewed Savio’s autopsy, said Wednesday that there were aspects of her death that concerned him.
The autopsy report found that Savio had [...]

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CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago’s Police Department is investigating an officer’s use of a Taser last month on an 82-year-old woman who was swinging a hammer when police arrived. Officials with the city’s Department on Aging went to Lillian Fletcher’s home Oct. 29 to make a welfare check, and called police when they saw Fletcher in [...]

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Do we really know how many Stacy Petersons are out there? We know Drews third wife was “an accident” right?  “It’s just not that uncommon,” according to Bill Mason, the elected prosecutor in Cleveland, where, he says, three seemingly law-abiding men have ended their marriages by murdering their wives in the last five years. It’s [...]

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Yeah he’s smiling now
The Chicago Police Department has agreed to pay $4 million to a 23-year-old man who says police shoved a screwdriver into his behind. The announcement came moments after a jury of nine women and men ruled that they believed Coprez Coffie over the two police officers who testified they had no [...]

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CHICAGO —  The family of a missing Chicago woman said a body found early Thursday is that of their loved one.
Nailah Franklin, 28, a pharmaceutical sales representative for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, was last heard from a week ago.
Jon Merrill, Franklin’s uncle, told FOX WFLD that authorities confirmed it was his niece’s body. Chicago police would not [...]

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