Extra Extra: 2014 First Quarter Murder Rate Drops
By Chuck Sudo in News on Apr 3, 2014 11:00PM
- The Chicago Police Department said the murder rate for the first three months of 2014 is at its lowest rate since 1958 and a 55 percent drop compared to 2012. What they aren't saying is there were only six fewer murders compared to the same time frame last year. [ABC 7]
- An appeals court was unimpressed with a motion by former Cook County Commissioner William Beavers' attorneys to have his tax evasion conviction tossed. Beavers is nearing the end of a six-month prison sentence. [Sun-Times]
- A fire caused $32,000 in damage to a building at Six Flags Great America.[NBC Chicago]
- A woman was shot while driving in Uptown. [Fox News Chicago]
- Want to see raw footage of a protester interrupting a report by CBS 2 correspondent Jay Levine? Of course you do. [CBS 2]
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