Chicago Black Violence Flares Up With The Heat - Chicago Police call numerous "10-1's" (Officers Need Emergency Help) as at least a dozen people are shot just in the evening hours in Chicago

At least a dozen people were wounded this evening in separate shootings on the city's Far South, South and North sides as black violence continues in Chicago.

An 18-year-old man, a 22-year-old man and a 23-year-old man were shot on the 2000 block of East 71st Street at 7 p.m., according to Chicago Fire Department officials. The 23-year-old refused medical attention for a graze wound.

The victims were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Stroger Hospital.

Also this evening, three male victims, ages 16, 40 and 44, were shot on the 10800 block of South Princeton Avenue at 6:13 p.m., according to fire officials. They were taken to Stroger and Metro South Hospital, officials said. The condition of the 16-year-old had stabilized, and the men were listed in serious-to-critical condition.

On the North Side, in the city's Uptown neighborhood, a 22-year-old man was shot near Windsor Avenue and Sheridan Road at 5:16 p.m., said police. That man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his leg.

Another man, 30, was shot on the 5500 block of South Union Avenue and was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, according to fire officials.

A 16-year-old girl was shot on the 700 block of East Oakwood Drive at 7:21 p.m. She was taken to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center with a wound to her arm, officials said.

In the shooting on 71st Street, about 20 onlookers stood outside a Dominick's parking lot. They stared across a set of Metra railroad tracks at police activity that cordoned off the entire 7000 block of South Chappel Avenue.

Detectives scoured the block for clues. Beat cops and other officers stood guard outside the yellow tape along 71st that sealed off Chappel.

The tape also sealed off access to a second crime scene along 71st between Chappel and Jeffery Boulevard.

A heavy police presence swarmed Clyde Avenue, the next street over. Officers stopped a car trying to travel through the block. Cops in SWAT uniforms walked through there with assault rifles.

Passersby were talking amongst themselves about the shooting, one of them likening the neighborhood to "Beirut."

A police helicopter hovered overhead.

A woman, who asked not to be identified, said she was trying to leave the Dominick's lot when she saw 71st blocked off. She said police were attending to a shooting victim close to the train tracks near 71st and Jeffery when she heard six or seven more shots.

She then saw two young men lying on the ground near 71st and Chappel, behind the Shoe Time boot store and in front of a single-family home, she said.

"I really hate to see summer coming down in this neighborhood," she said while standing outside her car in the lot.

Two CTA buses were traveling through the parking lot after police rerouted them from 71st street.

Wildebeest Linda Lopez charged with arson after starting fire at a Riverside, IL apartment she used to do Heroin ALL THANKS TO FREE SECTION 8 SUBURBAN LIVING!

From Another Suburb Turning To Shit: A Chicago woman accused of setting fire to a Riverside apartment after an argument with her husband over marijuana has been charged with arson, police said.

Police responded Sunday to an apartment complex on the 2900 block of South Harlem Avenue in the west suburb for a call of an activated fire alarm, according to a news release from the Riverside Police Department.

A tenant, who alerted his neighbors, found a small fire in a planter inside the building. He led the police to the second floor where there was another fire smoldering inside an apartment, the release said. The fire department was called to put the fire out. 

An investigation revealed that the former tenant of the unit had moved out two weeks prior and a married couple had moved in because the rent was paid to the end of April. The couple had been using the apartment to party and use heroin, according to the release.

Police learned that the couple went to the North Riverside Mall on Sunday and had stolen liquor. They returned to the apartment where they drank all day and later drove to Chicago to buy crack. They then returned to the apartment where they continued to drink and smoke, the release said.

The woman, later identified as Linda Lopez, 33, of the 2800 block of South Drake Avenue, fell asleep and when she woke up, her marijuana was missing, the release said.

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I guess nobody told this idiot that smoking weed in Chicago is just a ticket now! Black man jumps 7 stories to his horrible death to avoid weed complaint!

A man jumped to his death after police responded to a complaint of a person smoking marijuana in his 7th floor Uptown apartment, authorities said. 

The man was dead on the scene this morning in the 4500 block of North Clarendon Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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John Hartley Robertson was a ghost of history, an American soldier who vanished in the Vietnam War

John Hartley Robertson was a ghost of history, an American soldier who vanished in a war that was not supposed to exist. And for 44 years, neither did he. Robertson was shot down over Laos on May 20, 1968, as part of a mission by a special forces unit waging a secret war beyond the borders of Vietnam. The U.S. military listed him as MIA, then in 1976, presumed dead. But a Canadian filmmaker and a Vietnam vet tracked down a man living in a remote Vietnamese village who claims to be Robertson, though he has virtually no memory of his former life, has lost his ability to speak English—and is now married to a Vietnamese woman who rescued him, gave him the identity of her husband, a slain South Vietnamese soldier, and bore him four children.

With Unclaimed, an astonishing documentary that premieres this week at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival, Emmy-winning Alberta director Michael Jorgensen follows a bizarre trail into a modern-day heart of darkness, guided by Michigan’s Tom Faunce, a traumatized Vietnam War vet obsessed with leaving no man behind, even decades after the war. It climaxes—spoiler alert—as the self-proclaimed MIA is flown to Edmonton for a rendezvous with the sole survivor of Robertson’s four siblings, Alabama’s Jean Robertson-Holley. (He was unable to enter the U.S.) She instantly confirms he’s her brother in a cathartic, tearful reunion.

“POSSIBLE COVER UP

 

The documentary raises as many questions as it answers: it suggests Robertson’s case is cloaked in an elaborate cover-up by the U.S. military. Jorgensen says the U.S. government first became aware of the man claiming to be Robertson as early as 1991, and tried to verify his identity in 2006. But Robertson’s siblings were not informed. Then last year, before the reunion, the filmmaker says he was summoned to a meeting with an official from the U.S. military’s Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), who told him Robertson’s sister and brother (then deceased) had offered up their DNA for testing. Jean, however, insists no one from the agency ever contacted the family.

And as the plot has thickened, this family of apolitical, devout Baptists have become unlikely whistleblowers. In a tragic twist, two weeks after embracing the man she has no doubt is “Johnny,” and proclaiming “a miracle,” Jean, along with her husband, was seriously injured in a car crash. Her daughter Gail Metcalf, who now represents the family, told Maclean’s they still haven’t heard from the government. “I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” said the retired kindergarten teacher and born-again Christian. “I love my government. I’m not trying to pick a fight. I’m not looking for money or attention. But I don’t like being lied about.”

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USDA to Mexico: Illegal immigrants can have food stamps

With food stamp spending in the United States skyrocketing since the beginning of the recession, the Department of Agriculture is paying to promote food stamp usage to illegal immigrants for the sake of their American children, according to documents obtained by a government watchdog.
“The promotion of the food stamp program, now known as “SNAP” (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their immigration status in order to receive financial assistance,” Judicial Watch announced today.  “Emphasized in bold and underlined, the statement reads, ‘ You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children .’” 

The USDA said the program is designed to help American children. “[The USDA Food and Nutrition Service] understands that mixed status households may be particularly vulnerable,” FNS’ Yibo Wood wrote to Mexican embassy officials in a January 2012 email.   “Many of these households contain a non-citizen parent and a citizen child.”

The food stamp program may be cut when Congress moves to pass a farm bill this year. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., introduced a bill last week to cut $30 billion from the $760 billion the program is expected to spend over the next ten years.

“Since President Obama came into office, SNAP participation has increased at 10 times the rate of job creation, the annual spending on SNAP has doubled, and one in seven Americans now participates in SNAP,” Thune said in a statement on the bill.  “This explosive growth in both the SNAP enrollment and federal cost of the program is alarming and requires lawmakers to take cost-effective legislative control measures.”

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The Great Welfare Obama Country - Boston Marathon Bombers - Tsarnaev family received $100G in free government benefits

The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned.

“The breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning,” said a person with knowledge of documents handed over to a legislative committee today.

The state has handed over more than 500 documents to the 11-member House Post Audit and Oversight Committee, which today met for the first time and plans to call in officials from the Department of Transitional Assistance to testify.

“I can assure members of the public that this committee will actively review every single piece of information we can find because clearly the public has a substantial right to know what benefits, if any, this family or individuals accused of some horrific crimes were receiving,” said state Rep. David Linsky (D-Natick), the committee’s chairman.

Linsky’s committee has requested documents from the DTA, the state’s Medicaid director and Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz. But so far the committee has not released the records publicly, citing a privilege the DTA is asserting under state law.

Transitional assistance officials also told the Herald tonight that the agency was conducting its own investigation into whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s family ever notified the DTA about his extended trip to Russia, and has since expanded its probe to include a full history of the benefits received by the entire Tsarnaev family.

Also today:

JUST IN: Tamerlan Tsarnaev given $5,566 in college aid

President Obama defends embattled FBI

Unabomber lawyer to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Expert: Bombing trauma 'terrifying' in so many ways

Bucky Beaver Modupe Adunni Martin Engaging In Public Oral Sex, Running In Heels Jailed For Workers’ Comp Fraud - She is also known as a BLACK & DECKER PECKER WRECKER

San Francisco, CA — A woman who was filmed running in high heels and engaging in oral sex in a public park while claiming to be too injured to work was sentenced Thursday to nine months in San Mateo County Jail for workers’ compensation fraud.

Modupe Adunni Martin, 29, of Hayward, was immediately handcuffed and taken into custody this morning after receiving her sentence in San Mateo County Superior Court.

Prosecutors allege that Martin, a former custodian for the Sequoia Union High School District, claimed she suffered an ankle injury while working in 2009, and subsequently told her employers that she was unable to walk.

After as many as 10 separate medical assessments over three months, doctors grew suspicious that Martin was exaggerating her injury, and she was placed under video surveillance.

Investigators filmed Martin using crutches to walk into her medical appointments, but walking without crutches shortly after.

According to prosecutors, Martin was also filmed running in high heels to meet her boyfriend in a park, where a short time later she could be seen kneeling in front of him engaged in a sex act.

Doctors viewed the video and concluded that Martin had misrepresented her injury, according to prosecutors.

She was arrested in August 2009 and charged with 10 counts of workers’ compensation fraud.

Martin pleaded no contest to one felony count of fraud in October.

Defense attorney Emily Andrews said Martin was “very remorseful” and recognized the gravity of her deception.

Superior Court Judge Craig Parsons called Martin’s false claims of a serious ankle injury “egregious,” and said she would be “punished for her activity.”

In addition to a nine-month jail sentence and three years of probation, Parsons ordered the defendant to repay more than $79,000 in defrauded funds.

Seattle taxpayers foot bill for black students’ pricey rides to school

SEATTLE — Every school day, while tens of thousands of Seattle Public Schools students wait at bus stops, KIRO 7 learned some 300 other black students are chauffeured to school.

 Private drivers pick them up from their front doors and drive them to school in taxi cabs and pricey Lincoln Town Cars.

And Seattle taxpayers are picking up the fares, which are estimated to be $1 million a year.

The Seattle School District, which has been criticized for the expense of cabs in audits for years, tells KIRO 7 the cab rides are necessary to comply with a little-known federal law.

If a student is forced to move to transitional housing because of economic hardship, The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act requires the school district to provide transportation to and from the student’s original school.

“The point of the law is to keep students in a consistent learning environment, to overcome the instability of being displaced from their homes,” said Dinah Ladd, the district’s McKinney-Vento homeless student liaison. “We don’t have enough shelters for all the students in transition,” Ladd said, admitting many of the students could live in private homes, far outside the district boundaries.

“We don’t ask about the cost,” said Ladd, noting that the district was working to keep up with the growing amount of students listed as homeless.

KIRO 7 investigators followed one taxi carrying two students from Seattle’s Beacon Hill to Bothell, where they are cared for by their grandmother. The trip is more than 60 miles round trip, and costs taxpayers more than $100 every day.

“I’m not that gung-ho on cabs,” said their grandmother, Yolanda. “It is a premium service. I didn’t expect for it to be as expensive as it is, but I’m like, whatever way you can drive them to be cost effective, I would gladly support that,” she said.” “I was wondering how long it would last.”

KIRO 7 investigators found other big districts, like Tacoma, use no cabs at all to comply with the law. They use their own buses to transport students as far away as Yelm, at a great savings, compared to cabs. SPS Transportation supervisor Brandon Holst admits the program using cans and Town Cars is expensive and may be unsustainable.

 “We are looking at a variety of programs to contain the cost, with the idea that any savings can be reinvested into our classrooms,” Holst said.

But Holst also told KIRO 7 the district didn’t have a complete tally of the total cost to taxpayers.

 “We have a request my leader made recently to break out those costs so we could really figure out how to be more efficient,” Holst said.

KIRO 7 investigators asked Holst if there were any studies showing the cost-effectiveness of door-to-door cab service.

“I don’t know of any,” he said.

When asked why Town Cars were being used in some cases, Holst didn’t have an answer. He also could not tell KIRO 7 if Town Cars were pricier than cabs.

KIRO 7 talked to cab drivers who compete for the right to drive one student to school for an entire year.

“It’s good money,” said Hassan Almi, a driver who enters a company lottery to “win” a student.

“It could be more than $200 a day.  Some trips are longer,” he said.

 Another cab driver, who did not want to be identified, told KIRO 7 he saw waste in the program.

“To be honest, they could buy their own fleet of cars, and hire driver full-time to do this,” he said. “They could put the savings into the classrooms. Hire more teachers,” he said.

Developers meet in Atlanta to discuss the EB-5 Program

The 2013 National EB-5 Finance Seminar Tour with Greenberg Traurig was a great success in Atlanta, Georgia today. Top securities and immigration attorneys Mr. Steve Anapoell, Ms. Jennifer Hermansky and Ms. Kate Kalmykov discussed the latest developments in EB-5 industry. Mr. Tyler McKay of Artisan Business Group updated audiences about the current Chinese investors market and market entry strategies for new EB-5 regional centers. The one day informative session attracted regional center executives, attorneys and project developers from across the nation including Georgia, California, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, New York and Illinois. For more information about EB-5 program, contact us at info@ArtisanBusinessGroup.com or call Tyler McKay at 217-899-6661.

Steve Anapoell speaking in Atlanta 

Man fatally shot inside Hyde Park apartment - others shot & wounded in Chicago

A 39-year-old man was killed and at least four people were hurt by gunfire across the city Monday night and early Tuesday, according to authorities.

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California woman guilty of cutting of husband's penis faced life in prison

CALIFORNIA: A Garden Grove woman who was found guilty Monday of drugging her estranged husband, cutting off his penis and throwing it into a garbage disposal faces the possibility of life in prison.

Orange County prosecutors said in a statement that Catherine Kieu, 50, a maximum possible sentence of life. She is scheduled for sentencing June 28.

Catherine Kieu, 50, was convicted of torture and aggravated mayhem as well as a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife, the Orange County district attorney's office said.

Kieu's public defender argued that her husband verbally and sexually abused her and demanded sex in ways that pained her. The lawyer also said Kieu had mental health issues stemming from being molested as a child in Vietnam.

Kieu was arrested on the night of July 11, 2011, after she and her 60-year-old husband -- whose name has not been released -- apparently argued about the possibility of a friend staying at their home, prosecutors said. Kieu prepared an Ambien-laced dinner, causing her husband to become drowsy and go to bed.

As he slept, Kieu tied his legs and arms to the corners of the bed with rope, prosecutors said. When he awoke, prosecutors said, she pulled down his pants, grabbed his penis and cut it with a knife.

She then went to the kitchen, threw it in the garbage disposal and turned the disposal on, prosecutors said, "mutilating the organ."

Kieu called 911 and said her husband was bleeding, prosecutors said. The man then spoke to the dispatcher and said his wife had cut off his penis.

Garden Grove police arrived, and the man was rushed to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. The Times previously reported that emergency surgery to reattach the severed organ was unsuccessful.

The husband testified that his mental state had improved since the attack, the Associated Pressreported, but said it "may never be what it was before."

"She murdered me that night," he said.

Prosecutors said Kieu -- who they said was angry because her husband was dating an ex-girlfriend -- screamed "You deserve it!" before the attack, the Associated Press reported. Police told The Times after the arrest that Kieu had told officers her husband “deserved it.”

Armed offender Chris G. Nowicki, 46, fatally wounded by Milwaukee Police Officers

Milwaukee police on Monday identified the man who was shot to death by officers Saturday as Chris G. Nowicki, 46.

Physical and video evidence corroborates the officers' statements that Nowicki was coming at them while holding two butcher knives about 10:30 p.m. Saturday and refused orders to drop the knives, said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer, police spokesman.

The shooting occurred outside a residence in the 2600 block of S. 71st St. The officer who fired the shot is 47 and has nearly 21 years with the Milwaukee Police Department. He is assigned to District 6.

The Police Department and the Milwaukee County district attorney's office continue to investigate the shooting, and the officers involved in the incident remain on administrative duty pending the completion of the investigation.

It was the second deadly officer-involved shooting in Milwaukee within a week.

Police killed a 45-year-old man Wednesday in the 7200 block of W. Mill Road who was threatening to commit suicide and refused to drop his weapon.

Andre Velazquez becomes the latest illegal Mexican murdered in Rahm Emanuel's Sanctuary City of Chicago

Authorities have released the identity of a 34-year-old mankilled Sunday morning in the West Side's Humboldt Park neighborhood.

Andre Velazquez, of the 2100 block of North Lawndale Avenue, was shot early Sunday in the 2500 block of West Division Street, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Velazquez was pronounced dead at 6:35 a.m. Sunday at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the medical examiner's office.

Officials had waited until early this morning to publicly identify Velasquez until authorities notified family in Mexico.

President Obama calls NBA player Jason Collins after admitting he is a black faggot

Jason Collins was a journeyman NBA center, all but unknown to anyone but the sport's most dedicated followers.

That was before Collins revealed he is gay in a first-person account for Sports Illustrated posted to the magazine's website Monday. In doing so, Collins instantly entered himself into the world's consciousness as the first active player in one of America's four major sports leagues to make such a statement.

Collins began his nearly 3,000-word story, "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay."

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Police: 3 Illegal Breeders living free via Section 8 in Palatine, IL - Vanessa Mejia, Sendi Ocampo & an unidentified female juvenile - charged in robbery, ketchup bottle assault

Photo: Vanessa "Rotten Krotch" Mejia (left), Sendi "Super Musky" Ocampo

Palatine police said they have charged three teenagers—and are seeking a fourth—in connection with the assault of a 12-year-old boy with a glass ketchup bottle during a home invasion and robbery.

Palatine residents Vanessa Mejia, 17, of the 1500 block of Silver Lane, and Sendi Ocampo, 18, of the 1200 block of Long Valley Lane are charged with home invasion and armed robbery, police said.

A 16-year-old girl accused of cutting the boy with the bottle is being charged as a juvenile, according to police.

The incident began around 9 p.m. on April 24, when the boy was watching television at home in the 400 block of East Osage Lane, police said.

One of the four teens approached the apartment’s front door alone and claimed to be a friend of the boy’s sister. He told her she wasn’t home and the person left, according to a police release.

That person returned to the house about 10 minutes later with the three other females and asked to use the bathroom, police said. The boy let them in and after he turned his back, the teen girl hit him in the back with the empty glass ketchup bottle that she brought with her, according to police.

“It was a pretty big cut,” said Palatine Police Sgt. Dave Weeks.

The victim was taken to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights with multiple, non-life-threatening cuts, police said.

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Two fine upstanding Illegal Mexicans Jovanny Martinez and Erick Ortiz guilty in slaying of teen who refused to flash gang sign in the wonderful Sanctuary City of Chicago

Two Chicago teenagers were found guilty Monday in the slaying of a 15-year-old boy who refused to flash a gang sign when a group of gang members confronted him and his girlfriend in 2009, prosecutors said.

Alex Arellano who was burned, beaten and shot, was discovered in the backyard of a vacant home in the 3000 block of West 54th Place a day after he was killed May 1, 2009. On Monday, Jovanny Martinez and Erick Ortiz, both 19, were convicted of first-degree murder in Alex's slaying by Cook County Circuit Judge Maura Slattery Boyle, said state's attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.

Alisa Campos, 25, and Edgar Silva, 22, are both already in prison after pleading guilty in connection with Alex’s slaying, according to court and Illinois Department of Corrections records.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel basically says the CHICAGO PARKING METER DEAL was the largest rip off in Chicago's history... Thanks to Mayor Richie Daley - who now is being paid a 6 figure yearly salary by the law firm who handled this criminal deal

 Rahm Emanuel walked out of the news conference refusing to answer any questions regarding this deal

Drivers to pay longer under parking meter settlement - Rahm's new deal is even WORSE

Drivers will need to pay for parking longer at the majority of Chicago meters every day but Sunday under a settlement deal Mayor Rahm Emanuel cut to reduce the amount the city owes the private operator for lost parking revenue.

Emanuel announced the changes today at a City Hall news conference, describing the plan as making "a little lemonade out of a big lemon"—a reference to the widely criticized 75-year lease former Mayor Richard Daley made.

Emanuel said the plan would save taxpayers money over the life of the lease, but he did not take questions from reporters looking for specifics.

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Bumped up: Not a bad weapon for a $5.00 raffle - AMERICAN KNIGHTS M/C Gun Raffle

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(Winners receive a gift certificate for the weapon.  A valid FOID card is required to pick it up.)

Atwood-Hammond Little League AR-15 raffle already up to $29,000

ATWOOD — The Atwood-Hammond Little League will be reaping the benefits of its gun raffle sooner than expected.

League Commissioner Steve McClain said the fundraiser for the AR-15 rifle has brought in nearly $29,000, with more than two months left before the drawing takes place.

McClain said the original plan was to wait until after the Little League season ends in late June before spending any of the money raised.

But he now said that that process will begin before the games get underway.

"So many people are asking, 'Hey, what are you doing, when are you going to do stuff?' They know the money is there already, so people are wanting to see things," he said. "We're going to be putting in a new T-ball diamond. We've got four teams right now that play on one diamond. A lot of times the kids are out playing in the grass, so we're really wanting to get that extra diamond put in here in the next month or so, before games actually start."

New equipment for the players and teams will also be bought, as well as upgrades to concession-stand equipment.

McClain said the Atwood Village Board is expected to give final approval to building a new field next Monday, after the project got approval from the park board this Monday.

He said people are also offering to volunteer to help build the new field.

The drawing for the AR-15 will take place on June 29.

Four times a year, the Atwood Armory, a gun shop in rural Douglas County, raffles off an AR-15 to benefit a local charity. The business is selling $20 raffle tickets for its April-June fundraiser for youth baseball in Atwood and Hammond.

The prize being raffled includes the firearm and ammunition and is valued at more than $2,000, said Charidy Butcher, who owns the business in rural Atwood with her husband, Bryan.

"We donate a portion of it. What we do is offer it to them at our cost, and then we kick in $500 and some other stuff that goes with it, so they end up paying a small portion for it," Butcher said.

Interest in the raffle spread even before the tickets became available. McClain said earlier that he'd heard from Alaska and Florida.

"You name a state, and we've probably gotten interest from there," he said in March.

"Whoever wins, everything will be done legally. They'll have to go through the background check," Butcher said in March, "just as if they were walking in off the street and purchasing it."

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants time to consider concealed weapons appeal - Basically delay any start to concealed/carry

SPRINGFIELD—Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked for more time to decide whether to appeal the federal court ruling that would require Illinois to put in place a law that allows for concealed weapons. 

Madigan’s move would give the General Assembly time to pass legislation that would lift the ban on carrying concealed weapons by the current early June deadline. If Illinois approves a new law, an appeal would be a moot point, Madigan has said. 

“No final decision has been made on whether to request an appeal,” said Madigan spokeswoman Natalie Bauer. “But this allows us more time to prepare a petition and, to the extent that the legislature takes action, it allows us to take that into consideration as well.”

The legislature currently is scrambling to come up with a concealed weapons proposal that can win support from both gun control and gun rights lawmakers. 

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Illegal alien charged with child rape in Massachusetts

Last week, Lynn police arrested Kelvin Morales (aka Lucas Mauricio), 33, after a woman reported that she had been sexually assaulted by Morales for a period of roughly six years.

The victim, who is now 18-years-old, told investigators that the abuse occurred between the ages of 5 to 11 years of age.

Morales lived with one of the girl's relatives during this period.

Assistant District Attorney Annaliese Wolf told the court:

She was unable to say how many times he did it because she lost count. He would tell her to "shush" and cover her mouth with his hand if she made noise ... and even told her "snitches get stitches."

The Daily Item reported:

Wolf said the alleged victim told police the relative would go out frequently, during which time Morales would invite her to "play a game" that he said would"make her feel good."

The alleged victim told police Morales would then molest her; often kissing and touching her breasts and buttocks, and laying on top of her, Wolf reported. Wolf told the court the victim would say "oww" when he touched her "down there" but he would reply that "he’s only rubbing it."

Morales has been charged with rape of a child with force; and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. He is currently being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility on an immigration detainer.

Though Morales has admitted he became acquainted with the victim when she was a child, the Guatemalan national pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Neighborhood Scout allows you to see what neighborhoods are like - The Racial Demographics of NeighborhoodScout’s Top 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America

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Rapper Ray J's new song is about tapping Nasty Mudshark Kim Kardashian first - “I Hit It First”

In what may be coined one of the most-scandalous songs of 2013, singer and reality star Ray J‘s newest song, “I Hit It First,”and music video is sure to make him enemy No. 1 with baby daddy and rap star Kanye West. Why? Because the song reminds past love interest Kim Kardashian and the public that no matter where she goes or whom she moves on to, Ray J “hit it first.”

SEE ALSO: Katherine Jackson Civil Suit To Focus On M.J.’s Health, Finances

Clearly looking to stir up controversy, Ray J opens his new song with the following hook:

She might move on to rappers and ball players

But we all know I hit it first

I hop in the club and bop and show love

And I don’t even put in work

I hit, I hit, I hit

Off-duty cop wounds suspect after witnessing shootout

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and wounded a gunman after witnessing a shootout that left a bystander injured, authorities said.

The officer saw the exchange of gunfire near the intersection of West Jackson Boulevard and South Leavitt Street around 10:15 p.m., according to Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police. Investigators would later learn one of the bullets struck a man who happened to be nearby.

Four of the people involved in the shootout then jumped into a vehicle, and the off-duty officer began to follow it south on Leavitt, Camden said. Three blocks later, the suspects' vehicle became stopped in traffic at the intersection of South Oakley Street and West Van Buren Boulevard, where an Illinois State Police trooper was conducting a traffic stop, Camden said.

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Judge Jeanine Pirro Slams Jihad Mom - The mother of the two Boston Marathon Bombers

Walter Payton College Preparatory High School Vs. BLACK Crime Riddled Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy - Baseball forfeiture not race-related, principal says - It is actually BLACK CRIME RELATED - No parent wants to send their child to KILLER TOWN of Roseland

Quit the lying and the stop the politically correct bullshit... 

Roseland is one of Chicago's MURDER CAPITAL COMMUNITIES

No GOOD PARENT in their right mind would send them to that SHITHOLE.

Walter Payton College Preparatory High School's baseball coach told several media outlets that some parents didn't want to travel to Roseland due to safety concerns. 

THIS IS THESE PARENTS' RIGHTS!

If they fear for their children's safety. GOD BLESS THEM!

A North Side high school principal says internal leadership problems, not "racist tendencies," led to his baseball team forfeiting a game Saturday on the Far South Side's Roseland neighborhood. Principals for both schools issued a joint statement agreeing to move past the incident.

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Authorities: Wildebeest Mom joins adult son, teen daughter in beating of man

Do you remember when the lilly white suburbs were quiet & nice? Bails set for 4 accused of Richton Park beating

From left, Keetha "Krusty Thong" Moore-Bankhead, 48, family friend Luis "Big Forest" Pacheco, 18, and daughter Maria "Ten Dollars" Moore, 17. Moore-Bankhead's son, Ozzie Moore, was also charged and is hospitalized with chest pains, police said. 

A mom, her two children and another man have been charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery in connection to the group beating of a man Thursday night in south suburban Richton Park.

Keetha Moore-Bankhead, 48, her son, Ozzie Moore, 25, and his friend, Luis Pacheco, 18, were all ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bond Sunday at during a hearing in Cook County criminal court.

Moore-Bankhead’s daughter, Maria Moore, 17, of Park Forest, was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bond.

Ozzie Moore is hospitalized with chest pains, according to Chicago police.

Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil set the bails for the group, who allegedly swarmed a 30-year-old Richton Park man Thursday night whom Ozzie Moore claimed jumped him a few weeks ago, according to court documents.

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Chicago Police Detectives release photos of large nose smelly Islamic suspects in cabbie's beating

Detectives today released surveillance photographs of one of two men who beat and seriously injured a cabbie on the Near West Side early this year after he had driven them about a mile from where he picked them up.

The driver, age 26, suffered head injuries, two broken teeth and a swollen eye after he was beaten by two men in the 200 block of North Des Plaines Street about 3:30 a.m. Jan. 20, police said.

Area Central detectives are asking for the public's help in finding the two attackers and today released the two photos from inside the cab in hopes of finding someone who knows them, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

The cab driver picked up five people, three women and two men, near Kinzie and Dearborn streets, and drove them to near Lake and Des Plaines streets, where he dropped off the three women, police said. The two men stayed in the cab, and when the driver asked them where they would like to be taken, they said nothing but instead began attacking him and broke a piece of equipment in the cab.

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Inner City Black Love Triangle: Alexius Keys runs over her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend over who gets the LINK CARD

A Matteson woman is being held on bail after she allegedly ran over her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend Thursday in Park Forest, prosecutors said.

Alexius Keys, 20, was ordered held in lieu of $750,000 bail on an attempted murder charge in a Cook County Bond Court hearing Sunday.

Police were called to the 400 block of Rutledge Street in Park Forest about 6 p.m. Thursday after Keys saw her former boyfriend driving with his new girlfriend, according to court documents.

After seeing the couple, Keys rear-ended their vehicle, causing them to stop and get out, Assistant State's Attorney Anthony Gattuso said.

At that point, Keys drove in reverse across a lawn and struck the woman, Gattuso said in court.

She ran the woman over and dragged her several feet under the vehicle, Gattuso said.

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