Extra Extra: Prosecutors Won't Press Charges Against Boy Who Allegedly Threw A Snowball At A Cop
By Lisa White in News on Mar 28, 2014 10:45PM
- Remember the young 13-old-boy who was arrested last month for supposedly throwing a snowball at a Chicago police officer? Prosecutors are not going to press charges against him. [Tribune]
- The CPS launched a website today to collect ideas and feedback from the public on what to do with the empty buildings that remain shuttered after last year's massive school closing. [Sun-Times]
- Ground control to Major Sue! Sue the T. Rex, the Field Museum's popular dinosaur skeleton, is heading to space. Or at least her microbes are as part of a scientific effort known as Project Merccuri. [Tribune]
- A Norwood Park teen is in some serious trouble after giving a fellow student a pot brownie. Because that student then passed out and had to be rushed to the hospital. Some advice from your elders, don't give people drugs without telling or asking them first. It's a shitty move and makes you a bad person. [DNAinfo Chicago]
- Need to work on building out your home bar before the summer outdoor drinking season arrives? RedEye has some basic suggestions and cool hacks for setting up your beginner home bar. [RedEye Chicago]
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