• A DuPage County jury has sentenced Edward Tenney to death for a 1992 murder.
• Jury selection kicked off today in Calvin Boender's case.
• Authorities weren't too amused with a bus prank pulled by a pair of East Aurora High students.

• Police hope surveillance footage will give them leads in a shooting that happened yesterday in the Irving Park neighborhood.
• Attorney General Lisa Madigan today said that Gov. Quinn is clear to sell Thomson Correctional Center to the federal government for housing terrorism suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay.
• Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins, the owners of E2 who were recently sentenced to two years in jail, have asked a judge to allow them to remain free pending their appeal.

• The Tribune brings us the story of "April's Mom," a blogging hoax from the suburbs.
• Today a judge ordered psychological testing for the 14 year old boy who impersonated a cop and, a few months later, stole a car.
• The Sun-Times has the story of a nine-year old boy who was set on fire in what's been described by police as "a prank gone wrong."

In a story posted on the Sun-Times site today, “Blagojevich was quite the college prankster,” the S-T has identified a number of college behaviors and misidentified them as “pranks”: more ›

This Saturday marks New York City-based Improv Everywhere's 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride - part prank, part social experiment where participants gather to ride the subway, sans pants, with straight faces. People from around the globe have been encouraged to organize their own pants-free public transportation ride and lucky for us, it's on. The fun starts at the Granville CTA Red line station (1119 West Granville Avenue) this Saturday at High Noon. more ›

Oh, Drew Peterson, why can't people just leave you alone? Bolingbrook's Most Notorious Ex-Husband™ got an odd start to his Halloween on Friday thanks to a radio station's prank. It seems that some of the folks at B96 issued a challenge to its listeners: be the first trick-or-treaters at Peterson's house and win a shiny new cell phone. A pair of folks showed up on Peterson's doorstep on Friday morning, but hilarity did not ensue.

"The police heard about it," Peterson said, and the law showed up to intervene. more ›