UPDATE: AMERICAN AIRLINES (AMR) STOCK jumps to $1.12 today... you would have made 4 times your money in a week thanks to DSLC!

12/07/2010 @2100 HRS: The AMR Stock closed at $1.12
tonight... I told everybody to buy at 26 cents last week. You would have quadrupled your money in a WEEK!

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12/05/2011 @ 1400 HRS :IT IS NOW AT 70 CENTS.... YOU WOULD HAVE ALMOST TRIPLED YOUR MONEY IF YOU BOUGHT WHEN I TOLD YOU AT 26 CENTS....




NEW UPDATE Dec 6th 2011: AMR stock is now at 42 cents. Had you bought it at 26 cents the other day when I told people to buy it and sold it today you would have made 60% on your money! In less than a week.

ONCE AGAIN THE GREAT DETECTIVE SHAVEDLONGCOCK WAS RIGHT...and I believe this stock is going to go even higher.......

UPDATE: Had you bought this yesterday at 26 cents when I posted this ... it is at 38 cents right now... you would have made 50% on your money in 24 hours

DSLC never lies! Thank you

****REGARDING COMMENTS IN THE COMMENT SECTION****

I am not telling people to buy this stock and hold on to it. Buy it and sell it at a profit during the time the bankruptcy is being handled. Had you bought this stock at 26 cents when I told you yesterday and sold it at today's high of 39 cents, you would have made 50% on your money in 24 hours.... WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT? And common stock is only worth nothing when you file a regular bankruptcy not under re-organization bankruptcy.

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American Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, is among the last of the major carriers to do so, raising predictable questions for customers about how the changes will affect them. Based on what can be gleaned from the bankruptcies of other airlines over the past few years, the general answer is that at least for the short term, the experience of flying with American will remain largely the same, though changes are likely down the road.

Here are answers to more specific questions about miles, future flights and services.

What Happens to My Frequent Flier Miles?

Airlines can revise the rules of their loyalty programs without notice, though American says it plans no changes. On Nov. 29 the company notified AAdvantage members in an e-mail that miles “you’ve earned are yours and will stay yours, subject to the usual policies, until you choose to redeem.” The message went on, “your elite qualifying miles and your elite status, including lifetime status granted under the Million Miler program, is secure and remains intact.” Travelers on American will also continue to earn miles through partnerships including Citi AAdvantage credit cards as before.

Still, all this could change. “If American’s problems prove insurmountable and it is forced into Chapter 7 liquidation, the AAdvantage program would almost certainly be sold to another major airline,” the frequent flier expert Tim Winship wrote in a blog post, “Where Do My Miles Go if American Goes Bankrupt?” on SmarterTravel.com in October. If that happened, he said, “members would find themselves and their miles transferred to another program.” When Eastern Air Lines liquidated in 1991, he pointed out, its miles were honored in Continental Airlines’ program. In that same year, he added, when Pan Am went under, WorldPass members and their miles were folded into Delta’s program.

Analysts say there is no indication at this point that American is headed in that direction.

What About Future Flights?

Customers considering purchasing a ticket on American for later this year or next shouldn’t worry that the airline won’t be there. AMR Corp., the parent company of American Airlines and American Eagle, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which allows companies to keep operating while they reorganize. American says it is honoring all tickets and reservations as usual and will make normal refunds and exchanges. “We will continue to operate our regular schedule of flights, and there are no immediate changes to our service or schedules as a result of the Chapter 11 filing,” the company stated in a list of answers on its Web site to frequently asked questions about flights and tickets. Go to aa.com/restructuring and click on the links under “information for customers” for more information.

Keep in mind that most major airlines have sought bankruptcy protection over the last few years and have remained in business. “Airlines do a better job at filing bankruptcy than delivering luggage,” said Henry H. Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst and co-founder of Atmosphere Research Group, based in San Francisco. “Continental has gone through it twice. Delta, Northwest, US Airways, America West. Except for Southwest, there isn’t a single airline that started before deregulation in 1978 that has not gone through bankruptcy.”

Will There Be Service Cuts?

Probably. In the past, airlines have used bankruptcy as a way to cut service to some cities — a move analysts say travelers should watch out for next year. “Airlines generally use bankruptcy as a way to exit unprofitable routes, unprofitable cities and terminal leases on unprofitable aircraft,” Mr. Harteveldt said. “So while it’s too soon to tell and speculation is useless, people who are traveling at least six months or more away from now will definitely want to check their reservations as time gets closer.”

The airline might also consider teaming up with other airlines through code-share agreements to take on certain routes they can’t provide on their own. “That may mean a change in seat assignments as airplanes would be different,” Mr. Harteveldt said. Upgrades for frequent fliers booked on such flights could also be affected. But any possible changes are still many months away, as the company navigates through bankruptcy.

Illinois Speaker of the House Michael J. Madigan Caught on Federal Wire Taps? Could this be what finally gets him indicted?

Pensions probe focuses on Chicago union officials - Subpoenas show feds investigating how 11 leaders qualified for inflated retirement payments

Federal authorities have begun a criminal investigation into how nearly a dozen union officials became eligible for inflated city pensions, according to subpoenas obtained by the Tribune and WGN-TV through an open-records request.

The Chicago municipal employees and laborers pension funds each received subpoenas from a federal grand jury in October seeking "records pursuant to an official criminal investigation." The request seeks documentation on 11 labor leaders who appeared in reports from a joint Tribune/WGN-TV investigation.

The reports focused on a 1991 law that allowed union leaders who once worked for the city to receive credit in public pension plans for their private union work. When they retire, the union officials' pensions aren't based on their old city paychecks but on their much higher union salaries.

That opened the door for them to land public pensions that far exceeded their pay as city employees — even as they continued to earn lucrative salaries from their unions.

At least eight union officials named in the subpoena who either receive city pensions or are eligible for them also earned credit in union pension funds for the same period of work, despite a state law that was supposed to prevent that. The joint investigation found that some of those labor leaders were participating in up to three pension funds at the same time, accruing retirement benefits that reached as high $500,000 a year.

Last month, the state Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Pat Quinn that would eliminate labor leaders' ability to base their city pensions on their union salaries. It also made it clear that union officials who receive city pensions cannot get union pension benefits.

Among those named in the subpoenas are some of Chicago's highest-ranking union leaders during the past decade. They include Dennis Gannon, the former president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, an umbrella organization that represents 320 unions and more than a half-million members.

Gannon became eligible for a $158,000 municipal employees pension after being rehired at the Department of Streets and Sanitation for one day in 1994. He was then granted an indefinite leave of absence to work for Operating Engineers Local 150.

Gannon retired from his city job in 2004 at the age of 50 and began collecting a public pension even as he continued at the helm of the CFL, which paid him about $260,000 a year.

Attempts by the Tribune and WGN-TV to reach Gannon and the others named in the subpoenas were unsuccessful.

Thomas Villanova, president of the Chicago and Cook County Building and Construction Trades Council, was also named in the subpoenas. The council represents 33 trade unions that have collective bargaining agreements with the city and the county.

Villanova began collecting $108,000 a year from the municipal employees pension after retiring at age 58 in 2008. He last worked for the city in 1989, making $40,000 a year as an electrical engineer for Streets and San. As part of his application for his city pension, Villanova signed documents certifying that he had waived his union pension and had two union officials write letters supporting his statement.

Yet records showed that Villanova continued to receive contributions toward a pension with his former union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 134.

It turned out that other Local 134 officials also signed documents stating they weren't getting credit toward union pensions. Tim Foley, then the business manager of Local 134, as well as business agents Michael Nugent and Michael Fedanzo, also collected city pensions while earning credit in the Local 134's pension fund. All three are named in the subpoenas.

In October, Foley resigned his leadership positions at Local 134, one of the largest locals in the state with more than 14,000 members.

Five officials from unions affiliated with the Laborers' International Union of North America, or LIUNA, were also named in the subpoenas. Among them was Liberato "Al" Naimoli, president of Cement Workers Local 76. In 2010, Naimoli retired from a $15,000-a-year city job from which he took leave 25 years earlier and began collecting a $158,000 city laborers pension based on his nearly $300,000 union salary.

Although Naimoli certified that he was not receiving pension credits from his local, the Tribune and WGN-TV obtained information that showed the union official was eligible for a $60,000-a-year pension from the Laborers' District Council Pension Fund and that his union had been sending contributions to the fund since in 1977.

Four other LIUNA-affiliated labor leaders also were either collecting city laborers pensions or were eligible for them despite participating in the union pension fund. At least one of them was a trustee of the city laborers pension fund.

James Capasso, executive director of the city laborers pension fund and a former member of the LIUNA-affiliated Local 1001, said that those labor leaders didn't fall under the state law prohibiting them from receiving union pensions because the union pension plan was not physically located in Chicago. Capasso was kicked out of LIUNA in 2002 after attempting to improperly receive a union pension.

Among the LIUNA members named in the subpoena are Charles LoVerde III, the assistant business manager for the Laborers' District Council, which represents 20 local unions allied with LIUNA; and three others from Local 1001: Robert Chianelli, Nicholas Gironda and Local 1001's president, William Irving.

James McNally, vice president of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, is also named in the subpoenas. He's receiving a city laborers pension that pays about $115,000 a year.

Do you know this woman? Body of unidentified woman laid to rest in Wisconsin.

Photo: People pay their respects after burial services for an unidentified woman Wednesday at Cattaraugus Cemetery near Waupun. The woman's body was found in November 2008 by hunters in a secluded wooded area in rural Fond du Lac County.

Waupun - They buried "Jane Doe" in the brown Wisconsin dirt, amid the weathered tombstones of Cattaraugus Cemetery, hard by a highway, beneath gray skies on a cold Wednesday afternoon.

There was a minister to say prayers, his voice rising to be heard over the nearby traffic.

"This is our opportunity to say goodbye to a woman we never knew or never met," Pastor Don Deike said.

And witnesses were there, too, members of the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department, the media, a few people with roses and a Patriot Guard Rider, dressed in black leather, standing watch with a raised American flag.

No family was present. No family was known.

For this woman, her life and her death remain a mystery. And an investigation into her death remains open.

"It's not right," Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink said after the simple graveside ceremony. "But it's not over."

The woman's body was discovered Nov. 23, 2008, by three hunters who came upon her remains partially submerged in a creek in the Town of Ashford.

She wore blue jeans and a black top with pink trim, according to information posted online by the sheriff.

She stood between 5 feet 1 inch and 5 feet 3 inches tall, with an age range of 15 to 21, police said. Her weight was estimated at 110 to 135 pounds. Her hair was light brown or dark blond, around 12 to 14 inches long.

A forensic anthropologist suggested she may be Caucasian, but also might be of Hispanic, Asian or American Indian descent. An examination showed she might also have been knock-kneed or pigeon-toed.

Authorities say the case is a homicide, but they won't say how they believe the young woman was killed.

In the moments before the funeral began, people began to gather.

"She has a mom somewhere," said Mary Jo Kosterman, who attended the ceremony with her daughter Samantha. The mother held tightly to her daughter and a small bouquet of roses.

"Somebody has to be here for her," Samantha Kosterman said.

Dave Kukla, 50, of Portage, a Patriot Guard Rider, heard about "Jane Doe" and decided he had to attend the funeral. He had stood numerous times to watch military veterans receive one last honor in death, so he felt he was needed at this cemetery at this time, Pearl Harbor Day.

"She's still a human being," he said. "She still needs to be laid to rest with dignity and honor."

Her coffin - made of wood and covered in cloth - was carried by the sheriff's detectives who worked her case, as well as representatives of the county medical examiner's office. A wreath from Waupun High School students was placed on the coffin. Deike, the sheriff's office chief chaplain and an Assembly of God minister, made a simple declaration that resonated with attendees: "As of yet, she still remains Jane Doe."

A man turned his face into the wind and, trying to comprehend the death of someone he had never known, said to no one in particular, "Who could do such a thing like that?"

Fink, the sheriff, remains frustrated by the case.

"We feel a little like we failed," he said. "We went through everything we thought we could to get her identified."

Fink added, "We went through a lot of leads. But none of them turned out."

After the mourners left, the coffin was lowered into the ground, the dirt piled on top, "Jane Doe," at last, at rest.

Jury awards $3K to man shot at by Chicago cop... $3,000.00? LOL You got to be kidding????

A federal jury on Wednesday ruled that a Chicago police officer has to pay a 34-year-old man $3,000 after shooting at him during a 2007 confrontation outside a South Side Target store, according to the 34-year-old man’s lawyer.

The jury award comes four years after Officer Darin Macon, who was off-duty during the incident, shot his gun at Andrew Richardson, striking his car, shortly after learning his ex-girlfriend went on a date with Richardson, said Richardson's lawyer, Torri Hamilton.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in 2008, named Richardson as a plaintiff while Macon and other officers were named as defendants. Macon, a 23-year veteran of the department, was the only officer found liable in the jury’s decision, according to Richardson's lawyer.

Just after midnight on Aug. 25, 2007, Richardson was sitting in his parked car outside Macon’s ex-girlfriend's home near 88th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue after the two went out on a date, according to the suit. While they talked, Macon pulled up in his car, started swearing at the woman and threatened her, the suit alleged.

As she and Macon began arguing, Richardson interrupted and told Macon he had nothing to do with the quarrel and asked him to move his vehicle out of the way so he can leave, according to the suit. Macon responded with a threat and he and Richardson began arguing. Macon then threw a cup of soda at the woman before driving away, according to the suit.

Richardson then followed Macon into the parking lot of a nearby Target store to get his car’s license plate number. After jotting it down, Richardson turned around and tried to drive away, the suit stated. As Richardson was leaving, Macon got out of his car with his service weapon in his hand and announced he was a police officer and opened fire on Richardson, striking his car’s driver’s side door, the suit alleged.

Despite Richardson telling responding officers at the scene that Macon was armed, Richardson was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors: aggravated assault to a police officer and battery, according to the suit. Those charges were later dropped.

A Chicago police spokeswoman said Macon is currently on active duty in the department’s troubled buildings unit.

The Independent Police Review Authority—the city agency that handles allegations of police misconduct and investigations into police-involved shootings—said this case remains under review, and could not provide additional information.

Two Negro Murderers go free after Naperville police bungled the men's arrests.

ABOVE PHOTO: Courtney "Shineola" Mayes was convicted of murder in the shooting death of John D. Rosales in 2008. An appeals panel has found that he was unlawfully detained by Naperville police, and his conviction was reversed.

The murder convictions of two Aurora Negro men have been reversed by separate appeals court panels that found Naperville police bungled the men's arrests.

Courtney Mayes, 24, and his cousin, Cherrod Moore, 31, were unlawfully detained for more than 14 hours at the Naperville police station before they were officially arrested on April 1, 2008, the appeals judges found, ruling that police did not have probable cause to hold them.

Both panels found that because the arrests were unlawful, the statements both men later gave police confessing to their involvement in the murder of John Rosales, 23, should have been thrown out.

A spokesman for the Will County state's attorney said prosecutors were reviewing the rulings to decide whether they would attempt to appeal them to the state Supreme Court. They also could seek to retry to the cases.

A Naperville spokeswoman, notified of the rulings late Wednesday afternoon, said city officials were not immediately available to respond.

The two men are serving 20-year sentences for the murder of Rosales, who was shot in the neck at his Naperville condo during a botched robbery. Moore and Mayes were inside Rosales' home in the 2500 block of Sheehan Drive as he played a video game for money with Moore and smoked marijuana.

Mayes allegedly acted as a setup man, receiving several phone calls on his cellphone before two masked gunmen — Tyrell Jackson, now 24, and Reginald Chandler-Martin, now 25 — burst in. Jackson, who shot Rosales, is serving a 70-year murder sentence and Chandler-Martin a 39-year sentence.

A fifth man who supplied one of the guns, Justin Harper, 24, is serving a five-year sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery.

Moore and Mayes, who called 911 after the shooting, were waiting outside in the driveway when police arrived. They were handcuffed and taken in separate squad cars to the police station, where they were asked to turn over their clothes, car keys and cellphones and given jail scrubs to wear, according to the appeals rulings.

The two told police they were innocent bystanders and were interviewed several times but were eventually set to be released around 4 p.m. the next day.

At that point, an anonymous tip led police to officially arrest the men. But the appeals courts ruled police had actually made an "unlawful arrest" of both men hours earlier.

"We conclude a reasonably innocent person ordered to the ground at gunpoint, searched and then placed alone in a marked squad car while handcuffed … would not feel that he would be free to leave," the panel hearing Moore's case ruled.

"Rather than investigate further, the police arrested Mayes," the court panel hearing his case found. "They lacked probable cause. Accordingly, we hold that his arrest must be quashed."

Cosmo Tedone and Joel Murphy, who represented the two men, said they were pleased by the rulings.

"We believed all along that the manner in which police arrested and questioned our clients violated their constitutional rights," Murphy said.

Chicago police warn delivery drivers in the 8th & 9th Police Districts that black males are sticking up numerous delivery persons.

Chicago police detectives are warning businesses in the Chicago Lawn and Deering Police Districts about robberies of food delivery drivers following two such robberies in recent weeks.

In alert issued today, Wentworth Area detectives warned that businesses in those district that robbers have placed bogus orders via a cell phone for food, then robbed drivers when they arrive.

Businesses were warned that the cell phone 773-412-7771 has been used to place orders.

Police report databases show that the robberies include one, a carjacking, on Nov. 15 at 7:50 p.m. in the 6900 block of South Talman Avenue, and an armed robbery on Oct. 30 about 9 p.m. in the 6800 block of South Campbell Avenue, just a few blocks away.

Detectives cautioned businesses to tell delivery drivers to stay in their cars until a customer is in sight, and have customers leave porch or vestibule lights on for drivers.

Detectives also warned that callers asking for change for large bills should raise suspicion, and drivers should leave immediately if a property they are supposed to deliver to appears abandoned or vacant.

Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to call detectives at (312) 747-8382. Any business owner or driver suspicious of a delivery order should 911.

A Chicago Holiday Story: Illegal Alien Chank robbed by 2 Welfare Negroes of $10,000.00 he won at casino

Kenny Chan, 62, did not have much time to figure out what he would do with the 10 grand he won early Wednesday while playing baccarat.

Chan was on his way to his Chinatown apartment from a Hammond, Ind., casino about 2:15 a.m. Wednesday when two black men — one with a gun — robbed him of more than $10,000 in cash and casino chips, according to police and his son.

“He was thinking about getting a used car, some Christmas gifts and paying off some bills,” William Chan said of his father, who speaks little English. “He could have used it for something good.”

As he walked to the front door of his apartment building in the 2200 block of South Princeton Avenue, a man came up to him and attempted to put him in a headlock while rifling through his pockets.

Chan began to struggle with the man, but seconds later a second thief ran up to him with a gun and demanded that he stop resisting, his son said. The men fled south on Princeton with Chan’s winnings along with a 2nd man from the Horseshoe Casino, police said.

During the robbery, the gunman struck Chan on the head with his weapon, leaving a small laceration, police and Chan said. Paramedics treated the cut on his head at the scene. Chan was afraid to report the robbery to police due to being an illegal alien.

Security cameras at the front of the apartment building were not working, William Chan said he was told.

“If (they had) cameras up and running we would have caught the people by now,” said Chan. “To me, I’m surprised. I’m quite outraged.”

Chan speculated his father was either followed on his drive home from the casino or was the victim of a random robbery.

“At 2 o’clock in the morning this is a ghost town,” said Chan. “I can’t be confident that people would be willing to stick … their heads out the window (and intervene).”

Chan said Chinese immigrants who visit area casinos have long been targets of thieves who prey on them upon their return.

In July 2010, a 50-year-old Chinatown man was attacked when two men tried to rob him and another victim in the 200 block of West 23rd Street about 1:45 a.m., after the victims got off a bus returning from a casino, police said.

The sting of the Wednesday robbery was still fresh, but Chan said his father had no plans to leave the neighborhood where he has resided for more than 30 years.

“To be on that lucky streak and to have $10,000 in your pocket, and the next thing, it’s gone,” Chan said. “Yeah, you feel pretty sick to your stomach.”

Police: Abandoned cars left on passenger train tracks could be related

YOU WOULD THINK THIS WOULD BE A BIGGER NEWS STORY... STOLEN CARS BEING PURPOSELY LEFT ON THE TRAIN TRACKS OF PASSENGER TRAINS... AND THE CARS BEING HIT BY THE TRAINS??? THIS HAS TO BE MORE THAN JUST KIDS PULLING A BAD PRANK....


Des Plaines police say it appears two unoccupied cars left on train tracks that later collided with Metra trains are related.

Within the last week, two stolen cars were abandoned on crossings near Seegers and Rand roads. Both unoccupied vehicles were struck by Metra trains on the North Central Service Line around 6 a.m., causing delays, but no injuries.

The incidents “appear” to be related, said Deputy Police Chief Mike Kozak, who declined to comment further. He said in both cases, the cars, a Nissan and a Honda, were stolen from Morton Grove and Elgin.

The car owners “didn’t know their cars were stolen until we contacted them,” Kozak said.

Several tips and leads have flowed into the department, but Kozak declined to comment on why the cars might have been left on tracks, or if the car owners were Metra riders. He also declined to say if police are changing the way they monitor the area.

The crashes remain under investigation.

Bail denied for crazed Negro accused of stabbing his crackhead wildebeest roommate to death over TV

A man who told police he stabbed his female roommate to death over a 32-inch television set was denied bail today, officials said.

Larry Smith, 57, was ordered held in connection with the death of Rasheda Tucker, 34, who was found stabbed multiple times in his Far North Side apartment, officials said.

About 6 p.m. Monday, police were called to an apartment in a building located on the 7700 block of North Sheridan Road to conduct a well-being check, according to court documents.

When they arrived, Smith opened the door and police saw a woman, later identified as Tucker, lying in a pool of blood, prosecutors said.

Police said Smith admitted killing Tucker.

"She stole my 32-inch TV a few weeks ago and tonight I found her trying to take my radioand she gave me itchy leaky dick," Smith told them, according to police. He then told officers he made a police report about the previous incident.

Smith also told police and a witness that he stabbed Tucker during an argument, prosecutors said. Tucker was taken to Saint Mary's Hospital where she was pronounced dead, officials said.

Smith has a long criminal background that includes a 2003 second-degree murder conviction where he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. His record dates back to 1974 when he was convicted of an armed-robbery, records show.

Judge gives Blagojevich 14 years: 'When governor goes bad, fabric of Illinois is torn'

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Sgt. Joe Friday's partner... Officer Bill Gannon passes away.... actor Harry Morgan dies at 98

Harry Morgan, the actor best known for his role as the well-respected, sometimes irascible Colonel Sherman T. Potter in the long-running series "M*A*S*H", died Wednesday morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 96.

He was born Harry Bratsberg on April 10, 1915 in Detroit, Michigan, to Henry and Anna Bratsberg, where his father worked for war hero and car designer Eddie Rickenbacker. The family soon moved to Muskegon, Michigan, where Harry, hoping to be a lawyer, became heavily involved debate and speech classes; his junior year in high school he won a debate championship at the University of Michigan. He attended the University of Chicago for a few years, before leaving school and finding employment with an office equipment maker who eventually sent him to Washington D.C. It was during his time in Washington D.C. that Harry got his start on the stage, joining the Civic Theater in Ben Hecht’s "Front Page". Eventually, he moved on to a Mt. Kisco summer stock theater company, where he met and acted regularly with actress Frances Farmer. Ms. Farmer had quite an impact of his life; she promoted his career by involving him to acting classes with Elia Kazan, and also introduced him to her University of Washington classmate Eileen Detchon. He married Detchon in 1940 and they would have four children, sons Christopher, Charles, Paul and Daniel. Harry's stage career continued to grow, as he joined New York's Group Theater, whose members included Kazan, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb. When Hollywood agent Charlie Feldman saw him perform on Broadway, he signed the young actor and had him quickly under studio contract with Twentieth Century Fox, where he changed his name to Henry Morgan.

Harry and Eileen made the move to Hollywood in the early 1942 and his first billed appearance (as Henry Morgan) came that year in To the Shores of Tripoli. To avoid confusion with a popular comedian of the time, another name change soon followed, and he became Harry Morgan. Morgan’s film career prospered, and in the next 5 decades he appeared in many now-legendary dramatic films, including The Ox-Bow Incident, All My Sons, Madame Bovary, High Noon, The Glenn Miller Story, Inherit the Wind, Cimarron, How the West Was Won, Frankie and Johnny, The Apple Dumpling Gang and The Shootist.

While building this impressive film resume, Morgan was simultaneously working regularly in radio and television, with brief roles in "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Cavalcade of America" and "The Twentieth Century Fox Hour" before landing the role of comedic neighbor Pete Porter in "December Bride", which eventually lead to the spin-off series "Pete and Gladys". In 1963, his TV career took a turn toward more serious projects, as part of the ensemble in "The Richard Boone Show" and an iconic role as Officer Bill Gannon in 1967’s "Dragnet". The series, and his performance in it, was not only a precursor to modern police and detective series, but would also inform the 1987 film Dragnet, a comedic reimagination of the show starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks; Morgan appeared in this film as Captain Bill Gannon.

Despite decades spent working in film and TV, it would be his work in the TV series "M*A*S*H" that made him instantly recognizable around the world. After a memorable, Emmy-nominated guest turn as loony Major General Steele at the beginning of the third season in 1974, Morgan was invited back to join the cast a year later as Colonel Sherman T. Potter, the late-career Army man sent to run the eccentric medical unit after the loss of their previous commanding officer. Morgan's nuanced performance as dedicated leader and surgeon with an unwavering sense of right and wrong combined with a father-like protectiveness of his staff, allowed Potter to grow organically through the long run of the series. The small touches he brought to the role – Potter's paintings were done by Morgan himself, and the picture of Mildred Potter on Potter’s desk was actually Morgan's wife Eileen – only added to the authentic humanity of his portrayal, and in 1980 Morgan won an Emmy for his performance. After the series came to an end in 1983, Morgan continued the role in the short-lived spin-off "AfterMASH".

After the death of his wife Eileen in 1985, he kept himself busy making guest appearances in series such as "The Love Boat" and took a regular role in the single season run of "Blacke's Magic". In December of 1986, he married Barbara Bushman, the granddaughter of silent film star Francis X. Bushman. His work as a TV guest star continued through the late 1990s in "The Simpsons," "3rd Rock from the Sun," "Grace Under Fire", and his final movie work included Family Plan and the short film Crosswalk.

He is survived by Barbara, his sons Christopher, Charles and Paul, and grandchildren Spencer, Rosemary and Jeremy.

He was preceded in death by his first wife Eileen in 1985 and his son Daniel in 1989.

Remembering Pearl Harbor, 70 years later - Dec 7th 1941

BUT AMERICA GETS THEIR PAYBACK IN....

Still Our Top Posting: 2 Negroes break into a Catholic Church and Beat the Elderly WHITE Priest to a pulp and rob him of $600.00 Bucks

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is running from TV camera to TV camera telling the world how Rev. Daniel Mallette is his best friend ever! How Tommy was this first person called to run to the priest's hospital bedside after he was brutally beaten by two black savages...

But Toupee Tommy knows his votes are way more important than to comment on how two piece of shit Negroes beat an elderly white priest to a pulp! Fruitcake Tommy doesn't want to lose any black votes...oh no! But he will use an elderly priest being beaten to fulfill his TV needs. This is the most disgusting thing I have seen this asshole do... Too much of a pussy to tell what happened to this priest but is running to every TV camera turned on and doing radio shows inbetween the TV news interviews.

YOU ARE A PICE OF SHIT TOM DART TO USE REV. MALLETTE FOR HYOUR OWN PERSONAL GAIN AND THEN BE TOO AFRAID TO TELL THE WORLD WHO BEAT THE HELL OUT OF THIS PRIEST!


An 80-year-old South Side priest known for battling violence and poverty for decades was attacked and robbed in his church rectory early Tuesday by two men, authorities said.

Police said the men, wearing masks, broke into St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church's rectory around 12:30 a.m. and repeatedly beat the Rev. Daniel Mallette.

Mallette, pastor emeritus at the church, was awoken and dragged from his bed before the two men repeatedly struck him in the face with a blunt object, demanding to know "where the money was," according to a police report.

The attack prompted outrage from parishioners, including Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who has attended Mass at the church, in the 9800 block of South Throop Street, for 30 years.

"It was a very vicious attack," said Dart, who was present at Mallette's surprise 80th birthday party Saturday and went to the emergency room at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn when he heard about the attack. "It just reinforces to you that we have evil in our society."

At first Mallette told the robbers the church didn't have any money. But after he fell to the floor and his attackers kicked him in the ribs, he told the men he would surrender church collection money, according to police and friends. Mallette prayed while the men beat him, fearful for his life, said Patrick Catania, 62, chairman of the parish council.

"He kept saying the Act of Contrition (a prayer expressing sorrow for sins), and they kept smacking him, telling him to shut up," Catania said. "He told them he was saying it because he wanted to go to heaven."

Mallette initially led his attackers to a basement safe, police say. But he had difficulty opening it and instead took the two men to a combination safe in his bedroom closet. The two stole $600, according to police.

One of the robbers told Mallette, "This might sound ridiculous, but could you pray for me?" according to Catania.

"It's just not right," Catania said Tuesday, choking up. "They could have come in and asked him for what they stole and he probably would have given it to them."

Chicago police are following leads, and Dart said he feels "quite confident" the investigation will lead to an arrest. Mallette was recovering from broken ribs and a swollen face at home Tuesday. He could be seen talking on the phone and chatting with parishioners inside the church rectory, though he declined an interview.

Parishioners said the fact that Mallette has been such a positive force in the community makes the attack all the more galling.

"If anyone in the family got sick," Mallette would be there, said Michael Slater, 45. "When my mom got sick with diabetes, he would always come and see us. And that goes for everybody."

Mallette, who boxed as a young man, has been at the parish since 1977, ministering to a diverse congregation and providing outreach to the poorer pockets of his community. Over the years, his church has been the scene of several shootings, including in 1998 when four men were shot inside the church during a fundraiser hosted by an outside group. Mallette has reported being robbed at the church before, a police source said.

Mallette has pushed for inclusion at his church, citing racial injustice as his motivation. "From grammar school on, I got a sense from my folks how screwed up the world was on racial injustice and hatred," he told the Catholic New World newspaper two years ago.

Catania said the attack was "sickening" because Mallette was a man who would — quite literally — give a stranger the shirt off his back. Catania recalled an instance when a young man showed up outside the church "obviously not dressed for the weather," and "without a second thought" Mallette gave the man the Chicago Bears sweatshirt he was wearing.

"He doesn't just talk the talk, but he walks the walk," Catania said.


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Shavedlongcock Breaking News - 18th Street & South Morgan by UIC Campus - Chicago Police Swat Activity

The Chicago Police Department’s SWAT team has been sent to a possible barricade
situation near the University of Illinois at Chicago, a police source said.
Police were sent to the area near West 18th and South Morgan streets around
8:35 p.m. No details about the situation have been released. A perimeter has
been set up around the area, and a media staging area was set up near Roosevelt
Road and Morgan.
The situation is not on UIC property, a spokesman for the university said.

2 Negroes charged in connection with North Side armed robbery spree of white folks

Marcus Parker is living in a fine Section 8 Free Government House on the 9800 Block of South Maplewood! Fine criminal living being forced into what was once white working class neighborhoods!

Photo: Marcus "Food Stamps" Parker and Joel "Harry Ass" Shavers (No relation to Shavedlongcock)

Two men have been charged in connection with a series of armed robberies on the North Side, police said.

Marcus Parker, 23, of the 9800 block of South Maplewood Avenue in Evergreen Park, was charged with two felony counts armed robbery with a firearm, two counts of aggravated robbery and one misdemeanor count each unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a firearm without a FOID card and possession of ammunition without a valid FOID card.

Joel Shavers, 22, of the 10400 block of South Peoria Avenue in Chicago, is charged with three felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm.

“Basically they were robbing people for smartphones, wallets, credits cards that sort of thing. From December 1 until yesterday – when they were caught," said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Belmont District officers were patrolling the area and were aware of this recent pattern of armed robberies, when they heard a call about a similar robbery on Sunday, said Mirabelli.

The officers heard the call over the radio about a 22-year-old man being robbed in the 2900 block of North Mildred Avenue being robbed at 7:40 p.m., police said.

The message that came over radio gave a detailed description of the suspects and noted that they ran toward Fullerton Avenue. Police went to the Diversey Brown Line station, where they saw a stopped CTA train and asked the conductor to keep the train standing still.

As they scanned each car, they saw the suspects in the first train car – both “strikingly similar’ to the description that was provided by the victim, said Mirabelli.

Police found Parker carrying a fully loaded handgun. The victim identified both men as the offenders who robbed him and they were arrested and later charged, police said.

'Drop a bomb and wipe them Niggas out': NYPD cops brand West Indian Day parade goers 'savages' and 'animals' in 'racist' Facebook rants

The headline says what the cops are saying... this is what the colored wildebeests are saying....
"We's all be on welfare and gets everything for free... But we can afford fancy costumes and make up thanks to the white folks working! We bleed them whities dry!"

Above Photo: What's the difference between a 747 Jet and these 4 wildebeests? Not everybody has been in a 747 Jet!
Above Photo: Squat and leak a STD discharge dance

Several New York police officers have been accused of making derogatory and racially-charged comments about the city's West African Day parade on a public Facebook group.
The officers, who posted using their real names, made comments such as 'drop a bomb and wipe them all out.' Others called parade goers 'savages,' 'animals' and 'filth.'
The remarks were made on a Facebook group called 'No More West Indian Day Detail,' which was created for 'N.Y.P.D. officers who are threatened by superiors and forced to be victims themselves by the violence of the West Indian Day massacre.'

The Facebook group was discovered by two Brooklyn, New York, defense lawyers and presented as evidence for a man charged with weapons possession at the annual parade.

The New York Times reported that the numerous remarks cover 70 typed pages of comments and most of the posters appear to be New York police officers.

New York Police Department officials were not previously aware of the group, but have since opened an internal affairs investigation.
Department policy bars officers from making 'discourteous or disrespectful remarks' about race or ethnicity.
The annual carnival, which celebrates the large Caribbean populations in New York, been the scene of violence, including

'I say have the parade one more year, and when they all gather drop a bomb and wipe them all out,' Officer Dan Rodney's Facebook account posted.
When the Times contacted Officer Rodney, he claimed someone else posted the comment under his name.
'Why is everyone calling this a parade? It’s a scheduled riot,' one comment read.

'They can keep the forced overtime,' said one officer wrote, adding that the safety of New York's finest should come 'before the animals.'
'Filth.' wrote another poster.

'Welcome to the Liberal NYC Gale, where if the cops sneeze too loud they get investigated for excessive force but the "civilians

'It's not racist if it's true,' another said.

The Facebook group had more than 1,800 members when defense lawyer Benjamin Moore discovered it in September. He saw the group, which was open for anyone to see and read on Facebook, while browsing the Facebook page of his client's arresting officer.

'I found it astounding,' he told the Times. So he made a copy.

Two days later, the Facebook group disappeared.

Paralyzed Chicago Police Officer Densey Cole loses his wife. Mary Cole suddenly passes away yesterday....

From Face Book
If his life couldn't get any more difficult...I was reading through the CPD Message Center. I had to read it twice, but Densey Cole's wife, Mary, passed away yesterday... For those of you who don't know, Densey Cole was severly injured on duty, when the Tahoe he was driving was struck & flipped over. And then, while he was pinned in the car, some POS robbed him of his weapon, making his injuries even worse, paralyzing him from the neck down. They weren't married then but Mary married him afterwards. Please pray for him...


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Please save a prayer for Densey Cole.

Garry McCarthy has verbal shootout with FOP head Mike Shields over police manpower

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and the head of the police union got into a verbal shootout Monday over whether there’s a shortage of officers.

McCarthy spoke to the City Club of Chicago before taking questions from the audience — and got a tough one from Michael Shields, president of the Fraternal Order of Police.

Shields asked how McCarthy could expect to fight crime proactively when there is a shortage of 2,300 officers. Then he asked: “Can you admit the Chicago Police Department has a manpower problem?”

“The answer is no, I can’t do that because I don’t believe it,” McCarthy responded. “Sorry, Mike. I didn’t want to have these conversations in public.”

Shields’ figure was based on the department’s past budgeted strength of 13,500 officers.

But McCarthy questioned why the city thought it needed 13,500 officers in the first place.

“What was the analysis that was done? Was it based on geography, was it based on crime?” he said. “The answer I keep getting is ‘no, it’s based on the budget.’ ”

McCarthy told the audience he’s been moving hundreds of officers into patrol jobs since he took office in May. He said he shifted about 600 from desk jobs and about 400 from citywide units. Meanwhile, crime has fallen for 17 straight weeks compared to the same period of 2010, McCarthy said.

McCarthy acknowledged every city wants more officers. But Chicago and other cities don’t have the ability to pay for them in the current economic doldrums, he said. Chicago currently has 12,370 sworn officers and supervisors, according to figures released Monday by the city. The 2011 budget eliminated more than 1,200 vacant positions.

Chicago ranks third in the nation in the number of cops per 1,000 people, according to a comparison of 34 cities with populations over 500,000. Washington, D.C., ranked first, New York fifth and Los Angeles 13th. The comparison was based on a 2010 Department of Justice report.

McCarthy said he is not looking to expand the department’s payroll any time soon.

“Quite frankly, I don’t think it’s a fair thing to do to the taxpayers at this point,” he said to rousing applause. Then he fired a shot at Shields, the FOP president: “Mike, why aren’t you clapping?”

Female Chicago attorney accused of sexually inappropriate behavior in workplace faces state sanctions

A Chicago attorney and former chief of staff at a state health care agency, who allegedly exposed her breasts to co-workers, came to work drunk and kept nude photos of herself on state computers, is facing sanctions from Illinois' attorney disciplinary body.

But an attorney for Tamara Tanzillo, 52, says the complaint from the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission is in retaliation for Tanzillo's refusal to fall in line with improper orders during the Rod Blagojevich administration.

"She's feeling the penalty imposed for refusing to do political work while employed by the state," said Stephen Komie, who last month filed a 32-page whistle-blower lawsuit on Tanzillo's behalf.

Komie said he vigorously will defend his client against the allegations in the complaint.

Tanzillo, who formerly used the last name Hoffman, was fired from her $118,000-a-year job with the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services in November 2009 after an inspector general report found she had gone shopping while on the clock and engaged in "arguably decadent personal behavior."

The IARDC complaint, which was just made public, alleges that Tanzillo engaged in conduct that brought "the legal profession into disrepute" while working for the state.

In July 2007 she allegedly arrived to work smelling of alcohol, informing a guard that the "Boss Lady" had arrived before dancing the hula inside an elevator, according to the complaint.

Tanzillo allegedly twice exposed her chest to female co-workers, asking what they thought of her breast implants. She also allegedly exposed her breasts to two state officials at a Springfield tavern in 2008, according to the complaint.

In January 2009, Tanzillo allegedly came to the Springfield office around 1:30 a.m. while barefoot, wearing "sleepwear" and accompanied by an unidentified man, according to the complaint. She requested a key for the executive offices.

A guard allegedly saw the two "hugging and kissing" as they stepped into an elevator. The two left the building five hours later, according to the complaint.

The IARDC complaint alleges that Tanzillo engaged in criminal conduct, referring to a 2009 telephone harassment charge filed against her by Champaign County prosecutors.

Tanzillo allegedly threatened a woman who was dating the same person she was, according to the complaint. The charge was dismissed after Tanzillo completed a deferral program, the complaint says. Komie said the charge was simply dropped.

She is also accused of breach of fiduciary duty and conduct involving fraud for allegedly inflating her timecards and shopping while she said she was at work, according to the complaint.

Tanzillo also allegedly used her computer to show "sexually explicit material and nude photos of herself and others" even after she had been warned not to, the complaint said.

Tanzillo referred questions to her attorney.

UPDATE: Chanel Brown, 14, 5'4" and over 200 pounds is missing! Please check all the ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT Restaurants in the area!

UPDATE: Chicago police say that Chanel Brown, a 14-year-old girl who had been missing since last Friday, has been located in a local motel. She was covered with fast food wrappers, grape pop bottles and oozing heavily from her cootchie & bootie.

Police are trying to find a missing 14-year-old sow who did not return home from school Friday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

Chanel Brown, 14, was last seen at school in the 6200 block of South Stewart Avenue, but she did not return home after classes Friday, according to a Community Alert from Calumet Area detectives. Police were able to follow a trail of fast food wrappers for a short distance from the school but the trail ended without any sight of the missing wildebeest.

Brown, of 93rd Street and Princeton Avenue, is described as being black, 5-foot-4, with a medium complexion and brown eyes and black hair. She weighs about 200+ pounds and was last seen wearing a blue jean jacket, a maroon shirt, brown pants, skid marked discolored pink thong and size 14 Nike Jordon gym shoes according to the alert.

Anyone with information should contact police, (312) 747-8274 or the Richard Simons Fat Farm at 1-800-EAT-MORE.

UPDATE: FUNERAL INFORMATION - Former ADS Charlie Roberts of the Chicago Police Department Passes Away - A truly great boss and guy!

ADS Charlie Roberts passed away early this afternoon - he had surgery on Thurs to put in 2 stents, and never came out of the anesthesia / recovery

Detective SLC offers his deepest condolences to the family and friends of this long time police department member... He came from a police family and was a police man's police man.

Godspeed Charlie!

UPDATE: FUNERAL INFORMATION

Charles Roberts - 12/03/2011

Visitation - Wednesday 12/07/11 from 4:00 until 9:00 p.m. and Thursday 12/08/11 3:00 until 9:00 p.m. at Cumberland Chapels, 8300 W. Lawrence Ave., Norridge, IL 708-456-8300

Funeral - Friday 12/09/11 8:45 a.m. from the funeral home for final viewing and prayers

Mass - 10:00 a.m. at Queen of All Saints Basilica, 6280 North Sauganash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois (773) 736-6060

Interment - Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago, IL
Donations To - Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, 1407 W. Washington, Chicago, IL 60607

FUNERAL INFORMATION WIL BE POSTED WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE

Chicago Police Sergeant arrives on murder scene — and finds his stepson dead

'I was shocked. I couldn't believe it. I had to look at him again.'
Photo: Chicago police Sgt. Darwin Butler gazes at a photo of his stepson, Darius Parish, 20. Butler was a supervising sergeant at the scene where Parish was found shot to death.

Working the midnight shift, Chicago police Sgt. Darwin Butler, crime-scene tape in his hands, approached a white Chevrolet where a gunshot victim still sat.

A supervising sergeant, he shined his flashlight on the young man and without a close look realized that another life had been lost.

He turned abruptly as a young woman nearby became hysterical, screaming, "That's my sister's boyfriend, Darius!"

A thought flashed through Butler's mind: "Oh, that's my stepson's name."

He looked again. The white Monte Carlo was just like the one his stepson owned. He went to the car again, and the realization crashed down on him — the victim was the kid he had raised since he was 8 years old.

On Monday, Darius Parish, 20, a graduate of Whitney Young Magnet High School who studied at St. Xavier University to be a pharmacist was buried as his mother and stepfather looked on.

At the funeral, the violent death of a promising young man prompted mourners to call for another re-examination of a badly torn society. And the unlikely collision of the stepfather's job as a cop and the crime scene itself put a dramatic point on it.

"I was shocked. I couldn't believe it. I had to look at him again," Butler, his eyes watering during an interview at his Southwest Side home, said of that instant he realized that violence had struck so close to home.

Fourteen years ago, Butler himself was shot in the chest while on duty in West Englewood.

Parish was on Thanksgiving break from college when he was shot in the left shoulder Nov. 27 as he drove his car. A friend was also shot in the arm, but three others in the car, including a 10-month-old baby, were uninjured.

No arrests have been made, and the circumstances surrounding his death weren't known.

Parish's girlfriend, Janell Jones, said she and Parish were watching TV at his house earlier that night but were on their way to go bowling when the shooting occurred about 1 a.m. Jones, 18, said she feels guilty because it was her idea to go bowling.

"We should have just stayed," said Jones, sitting in her South Side home and blankly staring downward at her kitchen table "This is going to haunt me for the rest of my life."

At the First Baptist Congregational Church on the Near West Side on Monday, several wreaths with blue and white carnations stood beside Parish's casket as about 200 relatives and friends slowly walked one-by-one to pay their final respects. Among them was a man who patted Parish's sport-coat sleeve before collapsing to the floor. He needed to be escorted away from the casket by Butler and other mourners.

Later, about 30 police officers formed two separate lines in the church to greet Butler with hugs and handshakes. A choir of some two dozen parishioners sang gospel music in between speakers who eulogized the loss.

The church's pastor, the Rev. George Daniels, called for the mourners to stand up against the violence that took the life of Parish, who, two days before his slaying, had interviewed with several ministers for a financial scholarship awarded by the church.

"We as a people of faith have not stood up," Daniels shouted into a microphone. "We have to stand as a church. Mothers have to stand."

The night of the shooting was a typical midnight shift for Butler, who is assigned to the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods, the most crime-ridden in the city. He had just wrapped up at a crime scene at 71st Street and Wolcott Avenue, where a "shots fired" call led to the recovery of guns by his officers.

Then a call came over the police radio of more gunfire about a mile away near 62nd Street and Damen Avenue. Only this time a person was actually shot.

Butler raced toward the area in his squad car, its blue lights flashing and siren blaring. He arrived there within two minutes to see a little more than a dozen onlookers being ushered away by officers from the damaged Monte Carlo.

Butler approached the crime scene no differently than scores of others throughout his 17 years on the force. He parked his squad car down the block, brought along some red and yellow crime tape and walked calmly toward the front of the car, which had struck a tree.

With the crime scene already partially taped up, Butler stepped to the car's front passenger's side door to check for any signs of life from the victim. He shined his flashlight briefly on the victim's face — a young African-American man with a bullet wound in his shoulder — but found he was unresponsive.

"I never looked at the person to be anyone that I knew because I see (gunshot victims) so often working the streets like that," Butler said seated in his kitchen, his hands clasped together and resting on a table. "And my first thought was, 'Wow. Another person potentially lost their life.'"

Once he realized the victim was his stepson, Butler told another sergeant, and he was driven from the scene immediately.

"I was done at that point. … Had there not been another supervisor at the scene, I'm sure I could've held it together until another supervisor was summoned. (But) at that point, I was done," Butler said.

Parish had been sitting next to Jones, his girlfriend. Her twin sister, Shanell, their family friend and the friend's 10-month-old daughter were all in the back seat.

Parish and his girlfriend met last summer while doing landscape work for the Chicago Park District. They had been dating for almost the last three months. Other than "his smile and his voice," Janell Jones said, she will most miss Parish's generosity to others.

"The things he'd do for people. He was always … there for everybody," Jones said. "If they needed a ride home, if they needed to borrow some money, anything, Darius would always give it to them."

Butler had married Parish's mother, Tanya, when his stepson was 8. In addition to his own three children from a prior relationship, Butler said he helped raise young Darius, watching him become a man. The two lived together for more than 10 years, sharing the home with his wife and their biological daughter, Joclyn.

Parish was good at math and science and had an analytical mind, Butler said.

"He was a really smart kid," he said.

The sergeant has taken time off work since the fatal shooting. But the prospect of eventually having to drive by the site of Parish's death during patrol runs, he said, will make him strive only harder.

"I'm going to keep fighting. I'm going to keep trying to make a difference," he said. "I mean, yeah, you've just got to keep going. There's a lot of concerned people out here who live in Englewood and other communities who are at a disadvantage that don't want the violence."

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Detective SLC:

My deepest condolences to Sergeant Darwin Butler on the loss of his step-son. The hardest thing to do in this world is bury your child. My prayers are with you and your family.

Supt. Garry McCarthy defends moving more cops to patrol duties - "The Chicago Police Department has NO manpower shortage!"

Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Monday said moving officers from specialized police units and desk jobs to patrol duties was part of a strategy to shift from a top-down structure in the department.

"We are running police departments more like a business. ... With that comes organizational change," McCarthy, who took over as superintendent in May after the election of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said in a speech to the City Club of Chicago.

But Michael Shields, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, challenged McCarthy in a question-and-answer session to acknowledge that the Police Department has a "manpower problem" if it wants to fulfill its goals.

"No, I can't admit it. No, I won't admit it," McCarthy said.

The superintendent argued that it would be "unconscionable" for the department to ask for more resources before it had time to fully evaluate the efficiency of the change.

"The answer is no. I can't admit it because I don't believe it," McCarthy said. "More would be easier … but if it was easy, everyone could do it, and quite frankly ... I don't want to do that to Chicago taxpayers."

The speech came three weeks after Shields, whose union represents rank-and-file officers, addressed the same club and compared the city's handling of police manpower to "Enron accounting."

In his remarks, McCarthy said he plans to examine a wide range of issues in the department, from career development to officers' day-to-day interactions with residents.

"We are going to take on a couple of issues that people don't like to talk about," he said.

McCarthy said he hopes a greater police presence in neighborhoods will enable the department to more successfully tackle longtime crime issues in the city. Beat cops, for instance, could work with community organizations to eliminate regional drug markets instead of focusing on just arresting individual dealers, he said.

When asked how he expects to be involved personally with the policing of the G-8 summit in Chicago next year, McCarthy said he would be on the front lines.

"There is a G-8 summit?" he joked. "Expect to see me out there with the cops to get the job done."

Charlene M. Troop identified as the Blonde Sexy Cubs Fan Bank Bandit - Suspected in several more bank robberies

A Berwyn woman was charged with robbing a Berwyn Chase bank and is suspected of robbing two other banks after a Chase bank was robbed Friday on Ogden Avenue in the west suburb.

Charlene M. Troop, 23, of the 1400 block of South Kenilworth Avenue, was charged after she allegedly walked into the bank about 3:45 p.m. on Friday, used a note to imply she had a weapon, and left the bank on foot, according to a release from the Berwyn Police Department.

Police arrested Troop after they pulled over the green minivan she was driving, police said.

Someone told police they saw an object tossed from a green minivan in the 3600 block of Home Avenue, about a block away from the bank, and police stopped the van near Windsor and Home Avenue.

Police said they recovered the item thrown from the car, a bank bag with an exploded dye pack containing an unknown amount of money taken from the bank.

Berwyn police notified the FBI of her arrest and are "reviewing information, surveillance videos, and the method of operation" to see if the woman in custody is "responsible for other local bank robberies in Berwyn and Lyons," according to the release.

Troop's also considered a suspect in the Nov. 10 robbery of Metropolitan Bank, in the 8700 block of Ogden Ave in Lyons, and the Nov. 18 robbery of Citizens Community Bank in the 7000 block of Roosevelt Avenue in Berwyn, according to the FBI's Bandit Tracker website.

She didn't display a weapon in any of the three robberies, according to the FBI site.

The word "captured" is stamped over her photo on the FBI website.

Yes, sometimes a photo is worth a thousand or more words....

Robber tussles with Chicago martial-arts expert, gets beaten and shot

MUGSHOT of Anthony "Bitch Boy" Miranda

A man who tried to rob a mixed martial-arts expert at gunpoint found himself no match for his intended victim this weekend, police said.

Anthony Miranda, 24, faces a charge of discharging a weapon during a robbery in the Southwest Side attack, which left him wounded in the ankle and badly bruised from his confrontation with the 33-year-old man he robbed, police said.

The victim was sitting in his car near Kenneth Avenue and 55th Street about 11:30 p.m. Friday when a man came up to the car and asked him for a light, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

The man in the car replied that he didn't have a light, and the other man pulled out a handgun and demanded the driver's valuables, Mirabelli said. The driver handed over his cash, wallet and valuables, and the gunman then ordered him out of the car.

At some point, the older man was able to grab hold of the handgun, and during a struggle, the robber discharged a round, striking himself in the ankle, Mirabelli said.

The victim was able to hold the robber until police arrived. When he turned the robber over to police, the victim told them that he participates in Ultimate Fighting Championships, a mixed-martial arts competition, Mirabelli said.

After being treated at Holy Cross Hospital, Miranda appeared in Cook County Bond Court Sunday and was ordered held in lieu of $350,000 bail.

Miranda, of the 8900 block of Bronx Avenue in Skokie, is on parole in several 2007 residential burglary cases for which he was sentenced to six years in prison. He was released from prison in March 2010.

He previously served time for convictions in two 2005 burglary cases.

CTA shuts parts of Red, Purple lines because of Uptown barricade situation - Chicago Police SWAT deployed

UPDATE: 3 surrender after nearly six-hour Uptown standoff shuts part of Red Line

Three people surrendered this evening after a nearly six-hour standoff that began with the arrest of one man in a firearms investigation and shut down part of the CTA Red Line, a law-enforcement spokesman said.

The three apparently barricaded themselves in a building in the 4600 block of North Broadway about 4:15 p.m. after police and federal agents tried to question them in a firearms investigation. The standoff began after Town Hall District officers and Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents working in a task force found out about "wanted individuals" being in the area, Police News Affairs said in a statement this evening.

Three people surrendering peacefully just before 10 p.m., said bureau spokesman Thomas Ahern. The surrender appeared to end the standoff, and a spokeswoman said CTA trains were about to return to normal a little before 10:45 p.m., but the building where the three had been holed up was being searched as a precaution, police said.

The first arrest took place nearly six hours earlier, when officers and agents found a vehicle in belonging to one person wanted for questiong, parked in the 4600 block of North Broadway, police said. No warrants were being served at the time the agents and officers approached the man, Ahern said.

Members of the task force, also including Illinois State Police, had been "trying to talk to a couple of individuals, just for questioning," in the firearms-related investigation, and when they approached one of the men, he tried to run away and was apprehended, Ahern said. Police said the man was arrested after officers and agents saw him go up to the vehicle.

Since the initial arrest, police and ATF agents had been "attempting to negotiate the safe" surrender of others involved, police said in their statement.

Police asked the CTA to alter its service, because of work they were doing in the area, said CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski.

The Red Line was not operating between Addison and Berwyn avenues, and the Purple Line Express was not operating, according to the CTA's website. Shuttle buses were running between Belmont and Berwyn, and Red Line trains were running between 95th and Belmont and Howard and Berwyn.

Earlier this evening, about 50 people stood behind a line of TV news cameras on the southwest corner of Wilson Avenue and Broadway, watching for any signs of action just up the block and trading rumors about why police may have been trying to arrest the man.

A few police officers stood on the other side of the street, making sure no one walked under police tape strung across the sidewalk. CTA buses -- many packed with riders forced to get off "L" trains --drove slowly through the intersection.

Several unmarked police cars were parked with their emergency lights flashing near the building where the suspect is barricaded, almost under the shadow of the "L" structure.

Jasmine Cook, who lives a few blocks from the scene, said she had been watching from the corner since about 5 p.m. She said she's concerned about violence in the neighborhood and wanted to see the situation unfold for herself.

Cook, wearing a hooded parka and checking her smartphone for updates, said she wasn't sure how long she would stay outside.

"I want to say until he comes out, but that might be tomorrow," she said.

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Parts of the Red and Purple line were not functioning as police dealt with a barricade situation near the "L" in Uptown.

Police were in the area of Broadway and Leland Avenue about 5:20 p.m., with a suspect barricaded in a building in the 4600 block of North Broadway, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien. It was not immediately known why police were trying to arrest the person.

Police asked the CTA to alter its service, because of work they were doing in the area, said CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski.

The Red Line was not operating between Addison and Berwyn avenues, and the Purple Line Express was not operating, according to the CTA's website. Shuttle buses were running between Addison and Berwyn, and Red Line trains were running between 95th and Addison and Howard and Berwyn.

Riders on the "L" this evening were told via announcements that there was police activity at the Wilson Red Line stop, but Hosinski said the police activity did not involve an incident on CTA property.

Video: Zach McHugh - American soldier comes back to Chicago and his home in Mt Greenwood - Great turn out

Welcome Home Zach McHugh

Come out and welcome home Zach McHugh, son of Bill McHugh, Lieutenant of E-129. He is returning from Afghanistan. We would like to welcome him home by lining up the streets along 106th & Lawndale on Monday, December 5th around 2:20 pm. We will be picking Zach up at O'Hare and the Illinois Patriot Guards and the Warriors Watch Riders will be intercepting us at the Hinsdale Oasis and escorting him home (unbeknownst to him). We will have flags to hand out to anyone/everyone who wants to come out and participate.

Hope to see you out on Lawndale, and THANKS for all of your support!

The McHugh Family

Chicago Cubs Ron Santo has been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame

Cubs icon Santo elected to Hall of Fame

Ron Santo has been voted into baseball's Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee, just a little more than a year after his death. White Sox fan favorite Minnie Minoso was bypassed.

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Charges filed following Chicago police shooting

An Englewood village idiot who allegedly pointed a gun at police, prompting an officer to shoot at him over the weekend on the South Side, has been charged, police said.

Xavier Tucker, 23, of the 6000 block of South Carpenter Street, was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated assault to police, according to police.

Another man who was being questioned has been released without being charged.

About 3:20 p.m., police were called about shots being fired by individuals in a blue Pontiac Grand Prix in the Washington Park neighborhood around 61st Street, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Robert Perez.

When police arrived at the scene, they saw a vehicle matching that description and stopped it in the 5900 block of South Calumet Avenue, police said. Once the car stopped, its front seat passenger and its rear seat passenger both ran from the vehicle while the driver stayed, Perez said.

Before being apprehended, one of the two passengers pointed a gun at police, and one officer, "in fear for his life" Perez said, fired his gun.

No one was injured, but police took the man into custody, Perez said. The other passenger got away.

The driver was also taken into custody after police saw him put something under the vehicle's front seat. That later proved to be a handgun, Perez said.

Records show that Tucker has a criminal history, including weapons and drug charges.

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Chicago Breaking News: 4 Shot In Englewood home while putting up Kwanzaa tree

Four hard working welfare recipients and career criminals were found shot inside a Section 8 government paid for home in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

Police were notified of the shooting involving the four males victims of unknown age in the 5700 block of South Seeley Avenue at about 10:22 p.m., said Officer Ron Gaines, a police spokesman. A Chicago Fire Department official said all four victims were men, but didn't know their exact ages.

One victim was shot in the chest, one was wounded in the arms, another in the legs and the fourth victim was wounded in the abdomen, Gaines said, citing preliminary reports.

Three victims were listed in serious-to-critical condition as they left the scene, while a fourth victim was considered serious-to-fair, according to fire department Chief Joseph Roccosalva.

Two victims were taken to Stroger Hospital, one was taken to Mount Sinai and the least injured of the four was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, he said.

Police didn't immediately know how and why the shooting occurred.

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Illinois only ranks 49th out of 50th.... That's is what the highest taxes and the biggest liberal government gets ya!

48. Michigan
> State debt per capita: $2,963 (21st lowest)
> Pct. without health insurance: 12.4% (18th lowest)
> Pct. below poverty line: 15.7% (15th highest)
> Unemployment: 11.1% (3rd highest)

Michigan has arguably suffered more than any state in post-industrial America. The state is one of just four with a credit rating of AA-, although its debt per capita is actually below average. The state ranks among the worst in the country for violent crime, unemployment, foreclosures and home price decline.
Source: (September, 2011): From the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2010, the percentage of residents 25 or older with a high school diploma


49. Illinois
> State debt per capita: $4,424 (13th highest)
> Pct. without health insurance: 13.8% (23rd lowest)
> Pct. below poverty line: 13.1% (25th lowest)
> Unemployment: 10% (10th highest)

Illinois has fallen from 43rd last year to the overall second-worst run state in the country. The state performs poorly in most categories, but is worst when it comes to its credit rating. Illinois has a credit rating of A+, the second worst given to any state, behind only California. The state has been on credit watch since 2008 because of budget shortfalls and legal challenges against then-governor Rod Blagojevich.


50. California
> State debt per capita: $3,660 (21st highest)
> Pct. without health insurance: 18.5% (8th highest)
> Pct. below poverty line: 14.5% (tied for 21st highest)
> Unemployment: 11.9% (2nd highest)

California has moved down one slot on from last year to earn the title of the worst-run state in the country. In the fiscal year 2009, the state spent $430 billion, roughly 14% of all the money spent by states in that year. Compared to its revenue, the state spent too much — California had the 10th lowest revenue per person, and spent the 15th most per person. California is the only state in the country to be rated A-, the lowest rating ever given to a state by S&P. Despite the huge amount the state spends each year, conditions remain poor. California has the second-lowest percentage of adults with a high school diploma in the country, the second-highest foreclosure rate and is tied for the second highest unemployment rate in the U.S.

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