Extra, Extra

By Rachelle Bowden in News on Jan 20, 2006 1:31AM

• The Trib had a big story today about "Rats in the City" (we wish that was the headline RedEye used, instead they went with "Dirty Hairy"). There are about a million rats in Chicago and these are the neighborhoods most infested: Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, Bucktown. Disgusting.
• A kid in a McHenry high school got expelled for drawing a gang symbol in his notebook. The symbol included the initials DLK which the school says stands for the Disciples Latin Kings. The boy and his mother point out that his initials are DLK, as in Derek Leon Kelly.
• Remember that guy who tried to blackmail Gary Sheffield and his wife by saying he had a sex video of her and R. Kelly bumping and grinding? He was sentenced to 27 months in the slammer.

Photo of flamingos freezing their asses off @ LPZoo via Million Dolla Bill.