Extra Extra: Parents Left Kids In Car While They Did Heroin
By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jan 10, 2012 12:00AM
- A couple from the western Illinois town of Walnut were arrested after they left their 4- and 10-year-old children in a car in a gas station parking lot for about 15 minutes while they went in the station's bathroom to shoot up heroin. Oh, that doesn't sound so awful? Well, it was Christmas Eve. [TribLocal]
- Rahm Emanuel says he and Michelle Obama are totally BFF and that
burnbook that says they aren't friends is so totally wrong, and, like, whatever he doesn't read "those books," anyway. That's enough gossip for today, don't you think? [NBC] - A Lakeview couple was fleeing their burning apartment building, and when they couldn't find their pets, they propped the door open for them to escape. Unfortunately that open door helped the flames spread, which killed one of the building's residents. [Tribune]
- Snoop Dogg was arrested in Texas this weekend for marijuana possession. He has a prescription in California, but Texas doesn't recognize that. [LAist]
- A female Lake County prisoner died from malnutrition while on a hunger strike. [Tribune]