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Highland Park shooting suspect’s father asks to dismiss charges for ‘innocent conduct’

A father will ask a judge Monday to dismiss his case in which authorities say he helped his son obtain a gun license three years before the younger man fatally shot seven people at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago

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When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal. The shooter intended to start a race war and had posed with Confederate imagery in photos posted online.

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Record Numbers of Travelers Try to Fly With Loaded Guns: Kiplinger Economic Forecasts

Even more travelers could try to board planes with loaded firearms this year, after last year's historic high.

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Gilgo Beach murders victim Karen Vergata’s final phone call revealed

A petition filed in court in 2017 reveals the 34-year-old woman called her father Dominic Vergata on his birthday on 14 February 1996

The Independent UK

Megan Thee Stallion shares message as Tory Lanez awaits sentencing: ‘Mercy is for people who show remorse’

Rapper said that her physical absence from court ‘should be seen as her preserving her mental well-being’

The Independent UK

Megan Thee Stallion says ‘mercy is for people who show remorse’ as Tory Lanez’s sentencing looms

Megan Thee Stallion said that her physical absence from court ‘should be seen as her preserving her mental well-being’

The Independent UK

Chicago girl, 8, shot dead while riding scooter by man complaining about children making noise, police say

Sarabi Medina killed by Michael Goodman as she rode her scooter home after getting ice cream, police say

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Neighbor charged with first-degree murder in shooting of 9-year-old girl in Portage Park

Michael Goodman, 43, had confronted 9-year-old Serabi Medina’s father before walking up and shooting her in her head Saturday night, neighbors said. Goodman was wounded in a struggle with the father.

Chicago Sun-Times

Husband of missing Georgia mother-of-four arrested after her body is found

Imani Roberson’s husband Donell Anderson, 22, was arrested and charged with her murder, Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levett announced on Saturday

The Independent UK

88% Rise In Gun Permits Issued To Israeli Women

The number of Israeli women with permits to carry a firearm has jumped 88% over the last seven months.

Zenger

San Diego teens charged in killing of unhoused woman known as ‘Granny Annie’

Annette Pershal, 68, who was shot multiple times with a pellet gun, was ‘full of love’, said daughter Brandy Nazworth

The Guardian - US

Two Israelis Held In Death Of Palestinian Teen Following Arab Attack

Two Jewish suspects were detained in connection with the shooting murder of a Palestinian by the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court.

Zenger

Father of missing girl Harmony Montgomery insists he didn't kill his daughter

A New Hampshire father charged in the murder of his missing 5-year-old daughter Harmony Montgomery used a court hearing on an unrelated gun charges to proclaim his innocence

The Independent UK

Iggy Azalea reportedly wrote Tory Lanez letter of support ahead of sentencing for Megan Thee Stallion shooting

Judge Herriford told court that Azalea’s letter asked him to impose a sentence ‘that is transformational, not life-destroying’

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Ex-student accused in California stabbing deaths is mentally unfit for trial

The criminal case against a former Northern California university student accused of several stabbings is on hold

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Palestinian teenager dies after he was shot by Israeli troops in the West Bank last week

The Palestinian Health Ministry says a teenager who was shot by Israeli troops last week after throwing a firebomb in the occupied West Bank has died

The Independent UK

Gilgo Beach murders victim Karen Vergata’s final phone call revealed

A petition filed in court in 2017 reveals the 34-year-old woman called her father Dominic Vergata on his birthday on 14 February 1996

Evening Standard

Two people shot dead amid violent protests in Cape Town

One person was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting near the Cape Town International Airport

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At least 6 killed, 23 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago

An 8-year-old girl was shot to death Saturday night in Portage Park, and the man who killed her also was shot in a struggle over the weapon.

The Independent UK

2 people are fatally shot on a fifth day of protests in the South African city of Cape Town

Two people have been fatally shot on a fifth day of violent protests in the South African city of Cape Town sparked by a dispute last week between minibus taxi drivers and authorities

Evening Standard

Flower man of Islington ‘murdered in family feud with partner’s grieving son’

Tony Eastlake, 55, was allegedly knifed in the back by 23-year-old James Peppiatt after the two men became embroiled in a fight

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois to ban advertising guns to kids and militants

Gun-rights advocates say it violates not only the constitutionally protected right to own firearms but free speech.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dad of suspect in Highland Park parade shooting seeks dismissal of charges he recklessly helped his son get gun

Lake County judge will rule Aug. 28 on motion to dismiss reckless conduct charges against Robert Crimo Jr.

Reason

Risk of Physical Harm to Woman Involved in Ghislaine Maxwell Litigation May Justify Sealing Her Identity,

holds the Second Circuit, though it leaves it to the trial court to consider the facts further.

The Conversation

Contacting your legislator? Cite your sources – if you want them to listen to you

Suppose you have an issue you are really passionate about – taxes, gun control or some other important policy. You want to do more than vent on social media, so you decide to write an email, place a phone call or even draft a letter to your state legislator expressing…

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