• Developer Calvin Boender was found guilty on all five charges of bribery and obstruction of justice in connection with bribing former alderman Isaac "Ike" Carothers.
• NIU released a 300-page report detailing the 2008 shootings that claimed the lives of six students, including the gunman, Steve Kazmierczak. Read the report here.
• As expected, David Headley entered guilty pleas to charges of plotting terrorist attacks in Denmark and helping plan the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, India.

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More disturbing details are emerging today about Steve Kazmierczak: Police are saying that he tried to cover his tracks before the shooting spree. He removed the hard drive from his computer and took the SIM card out of his phone. And apparently the account his girlfriend gave CNN yesterday doesn't match with what she told the police. more ›