Midday News Links

By Staff in News on May 12, 2011 5:40PM

• NBC 5 sports anchor Daryl Hawks, who was in Atlanta for Game 6 of the Bulls-Hawks series, was found dead in his hotel room this morning. [NBC Chicago]


• An early morning car crash tied up traffic on southbound Lake Shore Drive. [CBS Chicago]


• A one-year-old survived a fall from a second story window in suburban Cary. [Sun-Times]


• Will County authorities are baffled by armadillo roadkill discovered in Homer Township. [Chicago Breaking News]


• Rock throwers damaged 15 vehicles along I-80 in Northwest Indiana. [Chicago Breaking News]


• Son of Ditka challenged his DUI charge that he said only came about because he was Son of Ditka. [NBC Chicago]


• An Indiana woman was arrested yesterday for allegedly trashing her hotel room while high on bath salts. Bath salts? Really? [Sun-Times]


• The man killed in an attempted robbery of a Bridgeport convenience store has been identified. [CBS Chicago]


• A Bob Seger bootleg shows the man made his best music before he broke big. [Reader]