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29+ min ago (127+ words) December 15, 2025 / 6:47 AM CST / CBS Chicago Crash-and-grab burglars hit a shoe store in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood early Monday morning. At 2:56 a.m., police were called for a burglary at a shoe store in the 3400 block of West Diversey Avenue, at the six-way intersection of Milwaukee, Kimball, and Diversey avenues. Police found the burglars crashed through the front door of the shoe store with a white sport-utility vehicle. They believe multiple burglars took miscellaneous merchandise, the exact nature of which was not specified, and fled the scene in two separate vehicles. Officers searched the shoe store and found no burglars there. No one was in custody Monday morning in the burglary. Grand Central Area detectives are investigating....

40+ min ago (816+ words) The process for meting out discipline in the most serious cases of misconduct by Chicago police officers has been largely at a standstill for more than two years. During that stretch, a backlog of unresolved cases has grown as a legal fight between the city and the largest CPD officers" union has worked its way to the Illinois Supreme Court. In 2025, cases in that category swelled to near 500. As of mid-December, police Superintendent Larry Snelling still must decide whether or not to bring administrative charges in 490 cases in which the Civilian Office of Police Accountability sustained allegations of misconduct, city records show. Read the full story from the Tribune"s Sam Charles. A father and son are suspected by officials to have'killed 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where gun violence is rare. The government today, a…...

46+ min ago (226+ words) December 15, 2025 / 6:29 AM CST / CBS Chicago Chicago police on Monday asked for help from the public to help them gather information in a crash that left a woman dead in the Avondale neighborhood last week. At 1:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 8, two women were headed west in a car in the 3800 block of West Diversey Avenue, when the 31-year-old woman driving the car lost control and hit an unoccupied parked car, police said. The car with the two women then veered off the road and struck a semi-trailer truck that was headed west on Diversey Avenue, police said. The woman in the passenger seat, also 31 years old, was ejected and died at the scene. The woman who was driving was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and was in good condition at the time. The car was described as a black four-door 2015 Buick…...

57+ min ago (30+ words) De'Jon Darrell Fox Jr., 18, was killed, and another student was critically wounded in the shooting. Balloon release held in Indianapolis for man killed in Kentucky State University shooting...

59+ min ago (41+ words) The Chicago Bears rolled over the Cleveland Browns 31-3 at frigid Soldier Field, dominating from the start so they can quickly turn their attention back to the Green Bay Packers and a looming NFC North showdown. More in Chicago Bears...

1+ hour ago (26+ words) Sources say the suspect worked as part of a local security force. Shooter who killed U.S. soldiers in Syria is believed to be ISIS infiltrator...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago (675+ words) SYDNEY " A father and son are suspected by officials to have killed 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where gun violence is rare. The government on Monday, a day after the shootings, proposed tougher new gun laws amid criticism that officials didn't take seriously enough a string of antisemitic attacks. Here's a look at what to know from the attack at Bondi Beach: Little is known about the suspects in the attack on Sydney's famous Bondi Beach, but there was widespread shock when officials said that the two men pictured firing weapons in social media videos were related. The 50-year-old father, who was killed, arrived in Australia in 1998 on a student visa, authorities said, and was an Australian resident when he died. Officials wouldn't confirm what country he had migrated from. His 24-year-old Australian-born son, who was…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago (60+ words) Sometimes you get stuck hunched over your desk or your phone for who knows how long, and it doesn't feel good. How do you move through that tension? Erica Hornthal, a therapist and author of "Body Aware," joins Marie Saavedra with some advice in this week's Mental Health Minute. Moving through tension with awareness Moving through tension with awareness...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago (669+ words) Connor Seitzinger of Sycamore, along with his wife Nicole and daughter Layla, who is almost 2 years old, knew frigid weather was coming so they decided to enjoy the Holiday Express fest at Blackberry Farm in Aurora on Friday night before the chilling blast hit town on Saturday. "We came to this last year when (Layla) was just a little lump then," Connor Seitzinger said. "We want to make this special for her and make this a family tradition where she can just look back throughout the years and hopefully, she'll continue it." The Seitzinger family were among hundreds who jumped at the opportunity to visit the Fox Valley Park District's Blackberry Farm and ride the popular Holiday Express train at the fest on Friday night in light of the dangerously cold weather that was approaching that forced district officials to…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago (465+ words) LOS ANGELES " Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were the two people found dead Sunday at a Los Angeles home owned by Reiner, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. Rob Reiner, son of a comedy giant who became one in turn, dies at 78 Investigators believe they suffered stab wounds and a family member is being questioned by investigators, the official said. The Los Angeles Fire Department said it responded to a medical aid request shortly after 3:30 p.m. and found a 78-year-old man and 68-year-old woman dead inside. Reiner turned 78 in March. Detectives with the Robbery Homicide Division were investigating an "apparent homicide" at Reiner's home, said Capt. Mike Bland with the Los Angeles Police Department. Los Angeles authorities have not confirmed the identities of the people found dead at the residence in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood…...