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A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the computers of Stratfor. Judge Loretta Preska told Hammond in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he could …

By Associated Press 11:20 a.m. CST, November 20, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. government has filed a civil lawsuit that accuses a Houston-based global construction company and its Kuwaiti subcontractor of allegedly submitting inflated claims to install trailers for Iraq War troops. The complaint filed this week says KBR …

By Craig Bannister Andrea Hernandez won’t have to leave her high school for refusing to wear a badge designed to track her every move there – yet – her attorneys announced today. A district court judge for Bexar County, Texas, has granted a temporary restraining order to prevent Northside Independent …

By Richard Wronski Tribune reporter 12:16 p.m. CST, November 16, 2012 The Metra board voted overwhelmingly today to raise the price of the popular 10-ride tickets by about 11 percent. The 8-2 vote comes just one year after Metra riders were hit with the biggest fare hike in the commuter …

November 16, 2012|By John P. Huston, Chicago Tribune reporter One day three years ago Meghan Murrin was a New Trier High School senior. And she had just died for a few minutes. Her increasing experimentation with illegal drugs had led her to heroin, and on Oct. 3, 2009, an overdose …

November 15, 2012 at 10:00 am By Sara Graper During the Nov. 6 Flagstaff City Council meeting, two residents were escorted out by police after the council denied putting their petition against reclaimed water usage on a future agenda. After more than two hours of grant considerations, the council came …

What’s really saved by privatizing a couple dozen positions at the water department? The time has come to consider the curious contradictions in Mayor Emanuel’s views of how government can help save or create jobs. When the state of Illinois announced it was giving a multimillion-dollar tax break to the …

4th Amendment of the US Constitution Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause

BY FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com November 13, 2012 12:54AM More than three months into a $1 million contract with the city, the anti-violence group CeaseFire has “no significant success stories,” a ranking police source said. It’s hard to evaluate CeaseFire’s mediation of gang conflicts without getting timelier reporting from the …

BY CAROL MARIN cmarin@suntimes.com November 13, 2012 7:40PM Emanuel downplays eavesdrop act Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at a Monday news conference, didn’t like questions about whether his press office had recorded reporters’ conversations without first seeking their consent. That’s a big no-no under the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, one of the toughest …

Published: Nov. 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM CHICAGO, Nov. 12 (UPI) — Chicago officials said they mistakenly recorded two phone conversations with reporters without their knowledge, adding that it is not a widespread practice. Recording a conversation without the consent of all parties is a felony in Illinois, the Chicago …

There are a couple of common reasons as to why a home owner would call a local locksmith company for their services. Most commonly, a home owner or resident of the home accidentally locks his or her keys inside the house and has no way of getting in. In this …

Posted by Anne Sorock, Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 2:12pm Black Chicagoans from the south and west sides took their message to what they say is the source of the problem when they converged outside of a fundraiser held by Mayor Emanuel for Barack Obama and then marched to the …

TAMPA, November 2, 2012 – It wasn’t so long ago that the following statement could only appear in a dystopian novel or movie script: The U.S. President has killed an American citizen without due process, without even charging him with a crime. His decision to do this has been challenged …

BY KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter kjanssen@suntimes.com October 30, 2012 2:28PM Updated: October 31, 2012 8:59AM She’s one of Chicago’s top cops — so highly rated that she was one of three finalists to replace former Supt. Jody Weis. But Debra Kirby’s account of her actions in the aftermath of …