Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor statement....Breaking News Video regarding the murder of four of their officers

UPDATE ON THE FOUR POLICE OFFICERS AMBUSHED AND MURDERED

The suspect is described as an African-American man, between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, wearing a black coat and blue jeans, with a "scruffy" appearance. (And May Det. SLC take a guess and add MUSLIM!)

Lakewood, Washington (CNN) -- Four Lakewood police officers were fatally shot Sunday in what police said was an ambush in a coffee shop.

The officers were sitting in the coffee shop before the start of their shifts, reading on their computers, when the shooting occurred, Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said. Authorities believe the officers were meeting and going over cases or doing paperwork, he said.

A gunman came inside and shot all four officers, Troyer said. Two coffee shop employees and other customers inside the shop were unharmed, said Troyer, who said the shooting "was a targeted, selected ambush."

"As you can imagine, they are traumatized," he said of those inside the coffee shop. "Some are in shock."

Families of the officers have been notified, Troyer said. All of the officers -- three males and a female -- were in uniform, wearing vests and had marked patrol cars parked outside, he said.

A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest, Troyer said.

Police are looking for one man in connection with the attack, which happened at about 8 a.m., Troyer said. The suspect is described as an African-American man, between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, wearing a black coat and blue jeans, with a "scruffy" appearance, he said. The man is believed to have fled the coffee shop on foot, he said.

Authorities are not ruling out the possibility that a second person was involved in the attack, Troyer said.

"We're doing everything we can," Troyer said. Authorities were conducting searches in numerous locations, he said, and dogs had been brought in to attempt to track the suspect.

A couple of blocks surrounding the coffee shop were cordoned off. Several other police agencies were on scene to assist.

There were no known threats against police before the incident, Troyer said.

Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, in a statement, said she was "shocked and horrified" at the shootings.

"I offer whatever support is needed to the Pierce County Sheriff in their search for the perpetrator," Gregoire said.

Lakewood is about 40 miles south of Seattle and 10 miles southwest of Tacoma.

See a map of where the shootings took place

Bystanders gathered outside the Forza Coffee Company, some of them in tears as they spoke to CNN affiliate KING.

The coffee shop is on the edge of McChord Air Force Base. Spokesman Bud McKay said the base was not shut down, but security was ramped up around the perimeter as a precaution.

The military has offered assistance to police, he said, but it has not been requested.

Multiple Police Officers Reportedly Shot Near Air Force Base in Washington

UPDATE: FOUR POLICE OFFICERS HAVE BEEN SHOT DEAD.

SEATTLE — Four police officers were shot dead in an ambush at a Washington state coffee house, a sheriff's official said Sunday.
The attack occurred near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Wash.
Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer tells KOMO-TV that the officers were hit near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m.
The officers were shot at Forza Coffee, the News Tribune of Tacoma reported.

PARKLAND, Wash. — Multiple police officers have reportedly been shot near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Wash.

Local television news reports did not release information on how many officers were shot or what their conditions are.

Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer tells KOMO-TV that the officers were hit near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m.

Giving J-Fed a black eye - Murders & Shootings are way up BUT not a word is being said about it by anybody

Every day there are multiple news stories of Chicagoans being murdered. And even more news stories about people being shot. Here is just one example from today's newspaper:

Southwest Side teen dies 3 days after getting shot
A teenager died Saturday afternoon after he was shot Wednesday in a Bronzeville apartment building.

Shannon Moore, 18, of the 7400 block of South Rockwell Street, was pronounced dead at 4:45 p.m. Saturday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.

ADD TO THE UPSURGE IN MURDERS AND SHOOTINGS... DEATHS AND CRITICAL INJURIES FROM MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS:

Eastern Illinois football assistant dies in car crash
EFFINGHAM, Ill. -- An offensive line coach for Eastern Illinois was killed Saturday following a car crash that happened as he returned home from the team's 48-7 playoff loss against Southern Illinois, a county coroner said.

Effingham County coroner Leigh Hammer confirmed early Sunday that Jeff Hoover, who was in his third season with Eastern Illinois, was killed. It was not immediately clear if anyone else was injured.

Athletics spokesman Rich Moser says Hoover, strength coach Eric Cash and five family members were returning from the game when their Chevrolet Suburban swerved to miss a deer and rolled over. Moser says two passengers have been released from an Effingham hospital, and the other four transferred to a hospital in Champaign.

2 hurt in car crash under Green Line on W. Side
Two people were reported in critical condition this morning after the car they rode in struck one of the support columns of the CTA Green Line's "L" tracks on the West Side.

Woman, 81, dies nine days after auto accident
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Kathleen Polcaster, 81, of 1727 Crystal Lane in Mt. Prospect, died Saturday night, nine days after being involved in an auto accident in that northwest suburban community.

Teen killed in rollover accident
An 19-year-old man died Saturday night after his vehicle crashed into a wall and rolled over on Interstate Highway 57 in Calumet Park.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

This time of the year the violence usually quells down to a minimum but not as of yet.

Usually the black reverends, the community groups or so other groups would be yelling & screaming about the murder rate by now. But suspiciously, nobody is saying a word.

I have a feeling someting is up, what it is I haven't exactly figured out yet.

The City of Chicago's New Voluteer Detective Division

Photo:Volunteer Keabonda Randall (right) talks to residents at 110th and Racine on Saturday afternoon as part of the Chain of Change effort seeking to help Chicago Police clear up unsolved murders.

Chain of Change urges tipsters to talk
Volunteers seek neighbors' help on unsolved murders

The murder of 14-year-old Gregory Robinson, a Simeon Career Academy student who died shielding two younger children from bullets last March, remains unsolved.

This saddens the Rev. Don Smith of Holy Jerusalem Church, who doesn't live far from where the murder took place, in the 1100 block of West 110th Place.

"I think some of these kids are so engrossed in video games, they don't know reality," Smith said. "They think shooting is like a video game -- [that] they shoot you, and three seconds later you get back up. It don't work that way."

The murder of the Chicago Public Schools student -- and many other homicides in the city that remain unsolved -- was the reason Smith and a cadre of ministers and community groups hit the streets Saturday morning, ringing doorbells and passing out pamphlets asking for neighbors' help in solving them.

Chicago Police spokesman Roderick Drew on Saturday could not immediately provide the number of unsolved murders in the city.

While they worked Morgan Park, other cadres of volunteers similarly fanned out in other neighborhoods across the city where unsolved murders were committed, part of an effort dubbed Chain of Change that involves about 100 community groups, working in tandem with the Chicago Police Department.

"We need to address the lack of information," said the Rev. Derrell Gray of Anointed Whole Gospel Ministries, one of the organizers. "I think somewhere along the line, we have lost our ability to communicate with each other."

The volunteers urged community residents to call police anonymously with any information regarding unsolved homicides, asking them to think of the families of the victims.

"It's an awesome, awesome thing you're doing for that family because it helps them have closure for the injustice they have suffered," Gray said.

Tina M. Skahill, chief of the Police Department's Community Alternative Policing Project, said it is "very frustrating" for the police when witnesses to crimes refuse to provide any information, even in cases where the witnesses also were injured by the perpetrators.

However, after 27 years on the force, Skahill said she is finding citizens are coming to the realization that the "code of silence" is something that "can't be tolerated."

Watching the volunteers praying in a circle, Demetrius Carter, 32, who grew up in the Morgan Park neighborhood where Gregory Robinson was killed and was visiting his family for Thanks- giving, said he hoped the action would do some good.

While tossing a football around outside with his 8-year-old son earlier in the week, gunshots rang out, and he had to grab his son and get inside, said Carter, who moved to Minnesota 11 years ago.

"My son had never heard [a] gunshot," he said. "It isn't even safe to play out here anymore. There's a lot of knuckleheads around here, a lot of young kids trying to make a name for themselves."

As for Gregory's family, they had moved away, a scrawled "Rest in Peace, Gregory" left behind on the boarded-up home.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

And you thought Cmdr. Burge had some tough interviewing techniques... Wait till you see what these guys do when a young thug tells them "fuck off".

Florida Man Accused of Shooting Roommate After Fight About Last Coca-Cola Soda

Florida Man Accused of Shooting Roommate After Fight About Last Coca-Cola Soda
DOVER, Fla. — A 55-year-old Hillsborough County man has been jailed following a shooting that authorities think happened after a squabble over soda.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office believes Larry Eugene Tullis shot his roommate in the chest with a handgun Friday after an argument over a can of Coca-Cola.
According to Hillsborough County online jail records, Tullis has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
A jail employee said bond hadn't been set yet and Tullis was scheduled to appear in court on Sunday morning. It is not clear if he already has an attorney.
The Tampa Tribune reports on its Web site that shooting victim was in stable condition Friday.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I've handled numerous incidents of people shot over "Coke the drug" but I have never handled a shooting over "Coke the soda pop". Now shootings over the last pork chop, turkey leg or the last swing of alcohol is commonplace also, looks like we may have to add Coca-Cola to that list also.

UNREAL - Rash of multiple murders and suicides hits the country this weekend - Here are just SOME of them....

Two Dead After New Jersey Dad Shoots Family
PATERSON, N.J. — A man chased down and shot his wife and their two young sons in northern New Jersey on Saturday — killing one boy — before he was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer, police said.

It was not immediately clear what sparked the gunfire, which occurred around 9 a.m. Paterson Police Lt. Ronald Humphrey declined to comment on a possible motive.

Seven-year-old Adrian Gonzales was pronounced dead at the scene, while his 11-year-old brother, Edryn Gonzales, and their mother, Johanna, 31, were both hospitalized in critical condition. Humphrey would not disclose further details on their injuries.

The gunman, Edelmiro Gonzales, 54, was also taken to the hospital, where he died a short time later.

Shortly after the shooting, police cordoned off two blocks in the area and recovered some shell casings, but it was not immediately known what type of weapon was used.

Humphrey would not release any additional information, including the identity and work status of the officer who shot Gonzales, saying the investigation was ongoing.

Will Hayes, a city resident who witnessed the shooting, told The Record of Bergen County that the gunman ran after the three victims and fired "multiple shots." He said the off-duty officer — who was in a car at a nearby fast food restaurant — saw what was happening and confronted the man, telling him to stop and drop his weapon.

When the gunman refused the order, the officer shot him, Hayes said.

"One kid was trying to get up," Hayes said. "They were young. I started crying."



Above Photo: The suspected murderer.Above Photo: One of the victims.

National Manhunt for Suspect in Thanksgiving Killings - Shot & killed 4 family members.
JUPITER, Fla. — Investigators in Florida alerted Michigan authorities to be on the lookout Saturday for a man accused of shooting four relatives to death after a Thanksgiving dinner in South Florida.

The suspect, Paul Michael Merhige, 35, sought a physician in the Detroit area in the past year, Jupiter Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella said, but he was unsure why he needed the doctor.

Merhige is believed to be driving a royal blue 2007 Toyota Camry with a rear spoiler and Florida license plate. He is accused of killing his pregnant sister and her twin sister, as well as his 6-year-old cousin and 79-year-old aunt.

There had been "ongoing resentment" in the family, but investigators weren't sure what specifically prompted Thursday's shooting.

Police said Merhige left briefly before returning to the home where 17 relatives had gathered in Jupiter, a small beach town about 90 miles north of Miami. The town is known as a home to celebrities including Michael Jordan and Burt Reynolds.

Newlyweds' deaths called murder-suicide
Man with criminal past kills self; wife found dead in home
Antwone and Claudette Coleman spent their first Thanksgiving as a married couple shuttling between family get-togethers, where his relatives said they saw no signs of tension between the two.

Despite Antwone's criminal record of violence, abuse and drugs, Claudette wed him last month, telling a neighbor that he was "the one."

"They were just the happiest couple," said Antwone's sister, Dominique Coleman, 24. "Nothing seemed wrong. They were smooching and doing everything a couple is supposed to do."

At some point Thursday night, those displays of affection ended. Neighbors heard the couple's quarrels echoing from their Garfield Park apartment -- and then a popping sound, said Renee Hilliard, who lives on the same floor as the couple.

Police found Antwone Coleman's body first, on the street in the 3300 block of West Monroe Street, blocks from the couple's home in the 3400 block of West Madison Street. The 28-year-old had an apparent self-inflicted bullet wound in his head, authorities said.

Several hours later, police found his wife's body early Friday in the third-floor apartment that they shared with her 10-year-old daughter. Claudette Coleman, 30, died of multiple gunshot wounds, and the Cook County medical examiner's office ruled her death a homicide.

Police are investigating the shootings as a murder-suicide, authorities said.

The daughter was staying with her great-grandmother when the shooting occurred, family said.

"They were so good together," said Hilliard, who was in shock Friday. "I really don't know what happened. It all happened so fast."

The couple recently found out that Claudette Coleman was pregnant, friends and family said. At least part of Thanksgiving was spent at his grandmother's house in southwest suburban Lockport, where they played cards, ate a holiday meal and looked at newspaper ads in preparation for Black Friday.

It was a "beautiful day, beautiful day," said his grandmother, Beatrice Harden.

The couple then headed back to their Garfield Park apartment complex to continue their holiday celebration at Claudette Coleman's grandmother's home, which is across the courtyard. The two had been fighting on and off, Hilliard said the family told her Friday.

Court records show that Antwone Coleman had a lengthy criminal record, including convictions for drugs, domestic battery and aggravated battery to a police officer. He also was a registered sex offender after a 1998 conviction for molesting a young relative, court records show.

Claudette's brother, Artis Wilson, said that the family had not been aware of that criminal record. They knew of no violence between the two, he said.

"If anyone would have seen that, it would have been squashed," he said angrily Friday morning. "She's my baby sister."

Antwone Coleman also had been in a legal battle with the mother of his baby, with records indicating an order of protection and conflict over visitation rights.

But neighbors said that talk in the apartment complex of Antwone Coleman's violent past did not bother Claudette, who had known him for years. To the surprise of both families, the couple married on Oct. 10 in City Hall. He wore a tuxedo; she donned a black and gray dress.

"She was real happy," Hilliard said. "I asked her, 'Are you sure you're ready for this?' She said, 'He's the one.' "

Several neighbors remembered Claudette as an attentive mother who kept a chart on the refrigerator that outlined mother-daughter days, family days and other scheduled outings. Hilliard shared a back porch with Claudette and said that they liked to barbecue together and sit outside and talk.

She said that Claudette's daughter seemed to like Antwone, whom everyone called "Twenty" for his penchant as a youngster to beg for quarters.

"She was happy with him," she said. "I never heard him fuss at her or whup her or nothing."

Photo: Alonzo Little Jr. 17 (right) and one of his relatives at the shooting scene outside his house in Sauk Village this morning. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune)

That's the oldest looking 17 year old I ever saw!

Cops: Man shot himself after killing ex-wife's friend, shooting her
Alonzo Little Jr. gazed at the puddle of blood in his driveway and streaks of blood on the side of his Sauk Village house Saturday morning, reliving the events that left his mother hospitalized and her friend and his former stepfather dead.

The 17-year-old high school senior was getting out of the shower just after 9 p.m. Friday when he heard shots in the family home in the 22400 block of Jeffrey Avenue in the south suburb.

After checking on his 5-year-old half- brother, Kavon, Little ran to the basement, where he said he found "blood all over the place," but nobody around.

Little left the house and ran into police, who filled him in. His mother, Rhonda Mabry, had sought refuge at in a neighbor's home. Her friend, Robert Allen, had staggered out of Mabry's house and collapsed on a neighbor's driveway, where police found him.

Allen was pronounced dead at 10:45 p.m. Friday at St. Margaret Mercy Hospital in Dyer, Ind., according to the Lake County, Ind., coroner's office.

A short time later, Mabry's ex-husband, Paul Gunn, was identified as the shooter and Sauk Village police put out an alert with a description of his vehicle over the Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network, police said. He was pulled over by police a few miles away in Markham, near 162nd Street and Dixie Highway.

Gunn then fatally shot himself, Sauk Village police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said. He was declared dead at 10:44 p.m. at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, according to the medical examiner's office.

It was the third murder-suicide in the Chicago area in as many days. On Wednesday, an Addison man killed his wife, two children and himself. On Thursday, an East Garfield Park man killed his new wife and himself. The three cases are unrelated.

Allen, 43, was up visiting Mabry from Carthage, Miss. Little said his former stepfather likely misjudged the relationship and lost his temper.

"He [(Gunn)] had jealousy issues. It's just stupid. He was taking it for something it wasn't," said Little, who attends Bloom Trail High School in Chicago Heights. "They [(Mabry and Allen)] were just friends."

Little said he never got along with Gunn.

"I never liked him. They [Gunn and Mabry] used to argue a lot."

Mabry underwent surgery Saturday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, family said.

Gunn had a lengthy criminal history dating back to at least 1993, including charges of domestic battery, assault and phone harassment, court records show. Gunn and Mabry, who, family said, were married less than three years, divorced in 2006. Mabry filed for an order of protection, records show.

Little said Gunn disappeared for about a year and a half after the divorce, but then started coming around again to spend time with Kavon.

According to Gunn's cousin, Alexis Cobbins, Gunn lived with his mother in a frame one-story house on a narrow frontage road along 159th Street just east of Interstate Highway in Markham. "We're all shocked. This isn't him at all," said Cobbins, who lives next door to Gunn's house and said she has known him since they were both children.

Mabry's family members, meanwhile, spent Saturday at the hospital, relieved that she survived the shooting.

"I'm just thankful she's going to pull through," Little said of his mother.

Experts basically call Mayor Daley a LIAR about T.I.F. tax fund

Experts have beef with Mayor Daley on TIF
Mayor misstated several program facts in recent radio interview, critics say
Mayor Daley is going on the offense in arguing for his beloved Tax Increment Financing program — but experts say he is being less than truthful about what critics dub a “shadow budget.”

Daley has held news conferences and conducted radio interviews about “TIF”s in recent weeks. But in just 2 1/2 minutes during one radio interview, experts say Mayor Daley told a number of falsehoods about the controversial economic development tool.

According to the city's own figures, nearly $500 million a year is diverted from the regular pool of property tax money heading toward Chicago schools, libraries parks, police, etc., into the obscure TIF funds, which are designed to promote development in “blighted” areas.

Daley’s TIF program is controversial because in addition to “blighted” areas on the West Side and other economically challenged areas, the mayor has used a novel definition of “blighted” to include parts of booming downtown. Downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) is fighting an effort to start a TIF around Grant Park which would claim the AON Center and other thriving high-rises are “blighted.”

Here is what Daley told interviewer Alison Cuddy on WBEZ:

1. “Most TIF Funds don't generate any money,” Daley said.

Wrong. Figures from the Cook County Clerk’s office show the funds brought in $495 million in 2008, the last latest year for which figures are available. “They generate a lot of property tax revenue — a substantial number of dollars in total,” said Woods Bowman, professor of public service management at DePaul University.

2. “Most TIF funds are used for schools, parks, libraries, ex-offender programs, job training, economic development to keep jobs here,” Daley said.

Wrong on everything but economic development.

In recent years, Daley’s administration has started using parts of the burgeoning TIF funds to fund improvements in some schools and parks, but those remain the exceptions to the rule as the lion’s share of TIF money goes — as intended — toward economic development. TIFs were not designed to capture money that would otherwise have gone to school and park districts only to return smaller portions of it to them. They were designed for providing funding for sewers, curbs, lighting and other improvements to spur redevelopment in blighted areas

“This is not operating cash — these are capital funds that are pledged generally for infrastructure improvement,” said Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation. The biggest TIF payouts go not to schools or parks but businesses such as $15 million to the Board of Trade; $10 million to Republic Windows, and multi-million-dollar packages to lure Boeing, United and Willis to Chicago.

3. Daley disagreed when the radio interviewer said the city generates “about half a billion dollars per year in TIF funds.” Daley responded, “No, I don’t think so. I don't think it's that high.”

Daley is technically right for last year, when the figure was $495 million (only 99 percent of half a billion). Wrong for the previous year, when it was $555 million.

4. Daley repeatedly interrupted the interviewer when she suggested that TIFS divert money from parks and schools by freezing property taxes in the TIF districts for a number of years and then putting the increases into development funds.

“No. No. No. No, it doesn’t,” the mayor said.

Actually, yes yes yes. “That's true. They used to deny that, but [Daley] needs to get a better briefing from his financial people. He’s wrong,” Bowman said.

TIFs by their very definition divert money from other taxing districts into TIF funds used to improve the TIF area. In a truly blighted area, school and park districts suffer no loss because any additional tax revenues being raised in the 20-plus-year lifetime of the TIF might not have happened but for the improvements there.

But in booming areas such as downtown where development likely would have happened anyway, that means hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes is off-limits to school and park districts which instead must reach deeper into the pockets of homeowners and and businesses in areas without TIFs.

Msall, says it might be more accurate to say that TIFs divert “equalized assessed value” from school and park districts to development. The schools and parks still collect just as much money, just from different pockets.

5. “They don’t really create a lot of money in TIFs,” Daley said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Isn't it funny that when "Joe Citizen" or "Joe Cop" says something FALSE it is called a LIE. When a big fat greedy elected official tells a complete falsehood (Lie) it is called a "Mis-statement".

Your Reading It Here First - Tiger Woods was not injured in a car wreck - He sustained his injuries from being hit with a golf club by his wife

The reason why Tiger Woods was speeding out of his driveway at 230 in the morning was that he was smacked in the face with a golf club, bleeding profusely and rushing to a hospital.

While trying to wipe the blood from his face and eyes, Woods smacked his Cadillac S.U.V. into a fire hydrant and a tree.

The injuries were from domestic violence. Tiger and his wife refuse to talk with police today.

Once again... Det. Shavedlongcock tells you first.

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I have met Dr. Dennis at Stroger Hospital - He has handled more than a few of my GSW victims. Dr. Dennis is a great guy!

Trauma surgeon moonlights as EMT
Andrew Dennis figures he's lived out just about all of his boyhood dreams -- he's been a firefighter, a paramedic and an EMT.
Dr. Andrew Dennis, left, a trauma surgeon and member of the Cook County Hostage Barricaded Terrorist Team, and Daniel Cammack, a medic, stand a suspected drug house in Harvey. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)Dennis Andrews, trauma and burn surgeon at John H. Stroger Hospital, displays the x-ray of a shooting victim.

Andrew Dennis figures he's lived out just about all of his boyhood dreams -- he's been a firefighter, a paramedic and an EMT.

Right now, he's living two dreams at once -- the Cook County Trauma Unit surgeon is also a sworn police officer, serving on two area SWAT teams.

With two pagers on his hip, Dennis could be called into surgery to save a gunshot victim or out to a small house in a suburb where the Cook County hostage barricade team is about to serve a warrant.

Dennis is part of a national movement to embed medical professionals into SWAT teams so that help is at the ready should something go wrong.

His team was already dressing for battle, and Andrew Dennis was trying to catch up.

With the trunk of his car open, he secured his rifle. Helmet. Headset. Pistol. Taser. He was then quickly briefed about the night's target: a small home on a dark Harvey street with someone inside rumored to carry a gun on his hip.

Cook County sheriff's police believed there also were drugs inside, and the hostage barricade and terrorist team was going in to find them.

About 30 minutes earlier, Dennis had raced out of Stroger Hospital from his other job, where he treated one last patient who came in from a car crash on State Street.

The emergency was left in the care of a co-worker. Now, Dennis would help provide cover to a fellow team member who would toss the flash-bangs that sound exactly like their name. If things went wrong and someone got hurt, a message on the headset would signal Dennis and other medics to come inside.

Standing at the back of his car, Dennis quickly took in the information from a colleague and nodded. He was ready -- he'd switched from scrubs to fatigues, and had a new purpose.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Dr. Dennis is funny to listen to. Watching a guy dressed in surgical scrubs talk about police work is just a bit unusual for me but also very entertaining.

Dr. Dennis loves the 1st responders, police - firefighters -paramedics. And is the type of guy you would have a beer with.

God bless Dr. Andrew Dennis for his police work and his surgical skills that saves lives everyday he works...

And Thanks Dr. Dennis for making that hand & arm cast when I needed it. It was a great help!

A Det. Shavedlongcock "Follow Up".... Information about where donations can be sent for this fallen hero

Photo: Jason McLeod, a Crystal Lake soldier who was killed in Afghanistan, with his daughter Jocelyn Elizabeth and his wife Aimee (from left) on the day he was deployed to Afghanistan. (Family photo)

Spc. Jason A. McLeod, 22, of Crystal Lake, was three weeks from leave to see his wife and infant daughter when he was killed in a mortar attack in Afghanistan, a relative said Tuesday.

On his second tour of duty, the 2006 graduate of Crystal Lake Central High School had earlier been deployed to Iraq. He worked as a mechanic on Humvees in the Army's 112th Infantry, according to his mother-in-law, Julie Ghannam, of Cary.

"He joined the army as a stepping stone to what he wanted to do," Ghannam said. "He was trying to make himself a life. He was a great person, he grew up young. He was very caring. He loved his daughter. He loved my daughter."

Ghannam said McLeod and her daughter, the former Aimee Rambo, have a 15-month-old daughter, Jocelyn Elizabeth.

The couple first met at a day camp when they were about 9 and growing up in McHenry County, Ghannam said. They reconnected three years ago, the mother-in-law said.

Since her dad's deployment to Afghanistan, little Jocelyn has been able to see him on webcam, the mother-in-law said.

Aimee McLeod, who is living with her parents in Cary, last spoke to her husband on Sunday night, and was expecting a phone call from him Monday that never came, her mother said.

Ghannam was uncertain Tuesday about when he died, or of the circumstances.

Military officials appeared at Ghannam's Cary home Monday evening, and the mother-in-law sent them to the home of the soldier's mother, Barbara McLeod, in Crystal Lake, where Aimee and Jocelyn were visiting.

In the call Sunday evening, McLeod told his wife he was "exhausted" from the work, Ghannam said.

On Tuesday Aimee and Jason's mom, Barbara McLeod, were traveling to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to recover his body, Ghannam and a friend of the family said. Memorial plans are not yet known.

McLeod, the middle child of three siblings, told family members that he enjoyed working as a mechanic. His first tour in Iraq lasted less than 12 months, in 2007.

He left for Afghanistan in May, and would have ended his duty next summer, according to Ghannam.

Robin Rogers, of Crystal Lake, is the mother of Brandon Rogers, McLeod's best friend since the first grade.

Rogers said McLeod was like a member of the family, who joined her family on many vacations. McLeod and her son loved to skateboard, play video games, go camping and fishing together.

Rogers said McLeod often called their house from overseas, and visited when he was on leave.

"We accepted him. He was part of our family," Rogers said. "They were always close friends all the way up until now. He was just a part of our family and now I feel like it is broken. All of our hearts are broken right now. This is just devastating."

Rogers described McLeod as, "a good kid, even tempered," who couldn't wait to come back home and start his future with his wife and baby.

He looked forward to going to school and providing for his young family, Rogers said.

"He loved his wife and his daughter," she said. "They were counting down the days (until he was home.)"


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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Godspeed Spc. Jason A. McLeod. And my deepest condolences for his family and friends... I will pray for his wife and child.

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1st Responders take a beating last night... It's the start of the Ghetto Holiday Season.

Woman held for punching paramedic, spitting at nurse
A Southeast Side woman who sought medical attention after ingesting illegal drugs was arrested Friday after she punched a paramedic who tried to help her and spat on a nurse at the hospital where she was taken, Chicago police said this morning.

Chicago cop hurt while responding to disturbance on NW Side
A Chicago police officer hurt his shoulder this morning while responding to a domestic-related disturbance in the Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Get the full story: Cop hurt while responding to disturbance on NW Side.

Cops: Man shoots himself after killing 1 in Sauk Village during a traffic stop
A 37-year-old Markham man shot and killed himself when police pulled him over Friday night after he had shot his ex-wife and her male friend earlier in Sauk Village, killing her friend, authorities said. (THIS ONE COULD HAVE TURNED UGLY. THANK GOD HE ONLY SHOT HIMSELF DURING THE TRAFFIC STOP.)

Cop thwarts armed robber by using his squad car
The Kankakee Daily Journal reports: An off-duty Kankakee police officer dealt with an armed robber Friday by hitting the man with his squad car after the alleged robber pointed a gun at him.

Officer hit by squad car while chasing theft suspect
A Chicago police officer chasing a shoplifting suspect on foot was injured by a police vehicle responding to the scene on the North Side Friday night.

Cop returns from service in Iraq; shot on first night of patrol

MCCORMICK, S.C. --- The streets inside the Little River community in McCormick are quiet and empty. But early Sunday morning, it was a crime scene after investigators say 51-year old Joe Worley shot a deputy while responding to a call for shots fired at this home on Presidents Drive.

"He hollered gun and grabbed his weapon. He identified himself as a sheriff's department. He told me he called that out several times, sheriff's department, put the weapon down," Chief C.E. Gable, Jr. of the McCormick County Sheriff's Office.

But investigators say Worley didn't put the gun down and shot Deputy Robert "Bobby" Rushton in the hand using a high powered rifle.

"We live in a dangerous world and some of us take it for granted that nothing can happen. When you hear something like this, you're surprised and you have to realize you have to keep your guard up and be aware," said Lynn McMahon who lives in the neighborhood. He says his quiet neighborhood is home to only about four people outside of the summer months. "I was surprised and sorry to hear about the deputy who was injured. He's recovering so that's good news, our prayers certainly go out to him," said McMahon.

Deputy Robert Rushton has been with McCormick law enforcement since 1998. He was with the sheriff's office until 2005. Rushton spent the past four years in Iraq training police officers. He returned to duty back home and was injured on his first night back.

"Deputy Rushton's a good officer. Saturday night actually was his first night back on the road and this happened," said Chief Gable.

And now as a veteran of both the military and law enforcement tries to recover, those he serves are still trying to come to terms with it all.

"It was quite a shock to me."

"He could've very well lost his life the other night, he's very lucky."

Worley is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, two counts of assault with intent to kill and three counts of use of a firearm during a crime. Two other deputies were on the scene and were able to help Dep. Rushton. That's where the additional assault and gun charges come in.

This is all still under investigation.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Prayers and wishes from Chicago that the officer makes a speedy and full recovery.

Did Chicago Police "blow off" arresting an offender who then killed the victim's boyfriend?

Photo: Murder victim Gregory Hampton

Could police have prevented killing?
Woman's alleged attacker shot her boyfriend, she says

A West Side woman says the father of her three children would still be alive if police had arrested a man she identified as the person who beat her up minutes earlier.

Jeanace Evans, 27, said Terrell Cobbs recently burglarized her apartment and had heard her talking to a neighbor about it.

On Tuesday, Cobbs, who lived in the same building in the 3400 block of West Douglas, chased her up the stairwell and punched and kicked her in the face, she said.

Evans said police showed her photos of Cobbs and that she identified him as her attacker. Then Cobbs, 24, walked past them on the sidewalk and implied he was going to get a gun, Evans said. But the officers didn't arrest Cobbs. Instead, she said, they told her to go to her apartment, and the officers left.

Minutes later, Evans' boyfriend, Gregory Hampton, 31, arrived. Cobbs allegedly shot him on the stairwell.

"All of this could have been avoided if they took him to jail," said Evans, whose face remains swollen.

Less than an hour later, officers arrested Cobbs in a nearby home. Police said he gave them a fake name, Ernie Banks, the name of the Cubs' Hall of Famer. Cobbs is charged with murder.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

No matter if these police officers had a valid reason not to arrest this subsequent murderer, watch for the CPD and J-Fed to probably throw these officers under the bus. Anytime anything makes the news the bosses start to throw cops under buses just to make it appear as things are being taken care of.

Weis is fired, gone...... Well the Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis.... But is Jody Weis Next?

A first glance at Weis' last day at Notre Dame
NOTRE DAME | This likely is it for Weis as Irish coach, and here are reasons why
Charlie Weis trudged slowly up the ramp to the locker room as late-afternoon shadows crept across the field after a stunning 33-3 loss to Georgia Tech in the 2007 season opener that likely will prove to be the beginning of the end of his Notre Dame coaching career.

Weis’ tenure in South Bend is easily divided into two parts. First, there is the largely successful Brady Quinn years. Confidence in Weis was so high that he was given a lucrative extension after his first season. Expectations soared. The former New England Patriots offensive coordinator appeared to all the world to be the man who could lead the Irish back to national prominence.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

One Weis gone and one to go. Maybe they are going in alphabetical order? Charlie Weis then Jody Weis.

From Western Ave to the State Street. Police on hunt for 2 black males in garage-door-ramming burglaries

Earlier this year, thieves used stolen garage door openers to break into garages and rip off things inside.

A pair of South Side thieves aren’t quite as savvy: They’re just ramming open garage doors with an SUV or pickup.

Chicago Police issued a community alert Friday to put people on the lookout for the thieves, who began their tricks earlier this month.

Beginning Nov. 6, the thieves used a red GM SUV or pickup to ram open doors in the Chatham and Avalon Park neighborhoods. The boundaries of the thefts have been 75th Street on the north, 86th Street on the south, LaSalle on the west and Seeley on the east.

The thieves, described as two black men between 20 and 25 years old, have swiped tools, radios and yard equipment. Their garage-ramming has also damaged several cars parked inside the garages.

Anyone with information is asked to call Area 2 detectives at (312) 747-8273.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Had you needed to smash a garage door down to save somebody, these two shitheads would even give you a hand. But to smash a door down and steal whatever they can... Well they would be there in a "New York Crack Head Minute".

White House: Couple who attended dinner without an invitation met Obama in receiving line

White House officials now say the two party crashers met with President Obama & V.P. Joe Biden, were shown all the secret entrances/exits to the White House, allowed to shoot shotguns at clay pigeons in the Rose Garden, stayed over night in the executive bedroom and were found in the White House kitchen in the morning having breakfast... BUT AT NO TIME WAS THE PRESIDENT IN ANY DANGER!
WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House official says the Virginia couple who attended a state dinner without an invitation met President Barack Obama in the receiving line.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi were admitted into Tuesday's dinner for India's visiting prime minister although they were not on the official guest list of more than 300 people. It had been unclear how close they may have gotten to Obama.

A White House official said Friday that the couple met Obama in the receiving line.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of an ongoing Secret Service investigation into how the couple slipped through its usually tight security.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

This is truly a representation of this administration and its ability to secure anything. If you can't secure the WHITE HOUSE, might as well forget about this country.

World War II fighter plane headed back to dry land

Photo: A F6F-3 Hellcat in flight.

A World War II fighter plane that crashed into an icy Lake Michigan during a training flight almost 65 years ago will be hauled back up to the surface early next week, a salvage expert who found the wreckage said today.

The F6F-3 Hellcat sank on Jan. 5, 1945, nearly taking pilot Lt. (j.g.) Walter B. Elcock with it.

The pilot, now 89, managed to snag a wire on the carrier with the plane's tailhook and, joking about the next few seconds, felt as though he "hung there about 10 or 15 minutes," Elcock said from his home in Georgia. Then the wire broke.

"I went straight underwater," he Elcock recalled. He unbuckled and kicked for the surface, maybe 10 feet away, thinking that he wouldn't be able to stay afloat wearing all of his heavy flight gear.

But almost immediately, a Coast Guard ship pulled him out.

"Relief, I guess, is the best word," he said. Elcock hadn't thought about it much since.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Several cool points to this news story. One is that the fighter plane is going to be salvage and brought to land. Another thing that is really amazing is that the pilot is still alive at age 89. Not sure what the odds on that is but it is truly amazing to me. And the pilot's name being "ElCock" is a nice touch also! And God bless him for his service to this country.

Chicago: Police car injures officer chasing theft suspect on foot

Police car injures officer chasing theft suspect on foot
A Chicago police officer chasing a shoplifting suspect on foot was injured by a police vehicle responding to the scene on the Northwest Side tonight.

The officer was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries and the suspect was being questioned after being captured by other officers tonight, police said.

Officers were flagged down by someone who told them a shoplifting suspect was nearby after having stolen something from a store in the 6100 block of North Lincoln Avenue about 7:30 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Antoinette Ursitti.

One officer who began pursuing the shoplifting suspect on foot was struck by a police vehicle that responded to the scene, Ursitti said. The suspect was arrested, and the officer was being treated at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, she said.

Information about the officer's unit and the details of the shoplifting incident were not immediately available, Ursitti said. The officer's age, sex, and length of service were also not immediately available.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Nothing like being hit by one of your own squad cars as your in a foot pursuit. The only thing worse than this is when we use to be able to carry Kale flashlights and some copper would accidentally whack you with the flashlight as the officer was trying to hit the bad guy. Boy that did hurt.

Tiger Woods Seriously Injured in Car Crash in Florida

DID ALCOHOL PLAY A ROLE IN Tiger Woods' ACCIDENT THAT HAPPENED AT 2:30AM AND NOT REPORTED FOR 12 HOURS?


Golf great Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident in Florida early Friday morning, according to MyFoxOrlando.com.

Woods, 33, is in the hospital in very serious condition after a single-car crash at 2:25 a.m. in which he hit a fire hydrant and then a tree, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The crash is under investigation and charges are pending.

Woods pulled out of his driveway in the Isleworth community when he struck the hydrant, the Orlando Sentinel reported, citing the FHP.

He then plowed into the tree on his neighbor's property. He was taken to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla.

Woods was apparently traveling under 33 mph because the Cadillac Escalade's airbags didn't inflate, the FHP told the Sentinel.

Car crash or something else? No famous golfer is exiting his driveway at 230am for no reason at all. I think his wife and him were domesticating....

Walmart evacuates store & throws rowdy customers out in

PEOPLE ARE ASSHOLES.... PLAIN AND SIMPLE!
AND THE STORES ARE BIGGER ASSHOLES FOR ADVERTISING ITEMS SUPER CHEAP AND ONLY HAVING 3 OR 4 OF THEM AVAILABLE IN THE STORE!



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UPLAND, Calif. (KABC) -- Black Friday crowds got too rowdy at a Walmart in Upland, forcing the store to kick everyone out and shut the doors. According to police, unruly shoppers were not following directions of store management.

The incident began at about 3 a.m. when workers began bringing out some of the big-ticket items, like $200 laptops. People started grabbing the merchandise, trying to take off before the store management was ready.

"All I know is, people, they were going crazy, and they kicked everyone out," said shopper LaShauna Wade.

All shoppers were evacuated from the building for nearly two hours. Workers began letting shoppers back into the store at about 5:30 a.m.

Customers were frustrated to have to wait outside in the cold parking lot because of a few customers.

Happy Holidays News - Police: Dad locked kids in trunk while shopping

Photo: Asshole Dad of the Holiday Season, Michael Monahan

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A local father is accused of locking his children, ages 3 and 6, in the trunk of his car.

According to court documents, Michael Monahan stopped by a sail shop in Fall River Tuesday and while he ran an errand, he allegedly left his sons in the trunk.

Police said Monahan claimed the kids liked to play there, but officers arrested him and he is now being charged with two counts reckless endangerment and two counts assault.

In court, Monahan's lawyer argued his client cares for his sons.

"He's extremely distraught about this your honor. He loves his children," said Monahan's attorney.

The children were left inside the trunk for several minutes before an eyewitness called police.

People near the sail shop where it happened are in shock.

"I think he should be put away. He needs some kind of help from what I heard. Locking your kids in a trunk, that's not right," said Mike Sardinha, a Fall River resident.

Monahan was released on bail, and ordered to have no contact with his children.

The children are now with their mother. Monahan is expected back in Fall River District Court on Jan. 19.

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Detective Shvedlongcock:

Really, what was this father smoking or drinking or popping? Leave your kids in a trunk while you go shopping at a sailing store and then do errands... UN-FUCKING-Believable!

Friday 27 NOV 2009 - City of Chicago is closed

City has 'reduced-service' day on Friday
Friday is scheduled to be a "reduced-service" day in Chicago, where as a money-saving move the city will shut down most city services, leaving only a skeleton crew to handle emergencies and conduct necessary business such as collecting revenue.
About 11,000 workers are expected to stay home the day after Thanksgiving and again on Christmas Eve. The first of the three reduced services days in 2009 was Aug. 17.
City workers also have been taking furlough days throughout the year to help reduce payroll costs.
The three reduced services days hope to save an estimated $8.3 million in the 2009 budget.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:

The Mayor's personal friend and the person he selected to be the President of the Chicago Board of Education - the dead by suicide Michael Scott - charged over $3,000.00 to his Chicago Board of Education issued credit card for a trip for him and his wife to Copenhagen... Just one tiny example of the BILLIONS OF DOLLARS that either the Mayor wasted, stole, gave away or pocketed.... And the working man has to take a day off without pay...

But the shit hole of Cook County, Robbins, Illinois, is OPEN TODAY.... Amazing!

And is city going to deduct the money that Micheal Scott ILLEGAL charged to his CPS issued credit card from the benefits that his wife is going to get now???

2 Teens fleeing a minor traffic accident were killed when they crashed a second time.

Two teens killed after fleeing Oswego crash
Two teens were killed after the driver fled a minor accident in Oswego, then crashed into a second car Tuesday evening.

Oswego police said Jessica Nichols, 18, of the 0-99 block of Spring Garden Drive, Montgomery, and her passenger, Nicholas Miller, 18, of the 900 block of Mason Avenue, Aurora, died from injuries they sustained in the second crash.

Nichols was involved in a what police called a "very minor" accident on Route 34, near Ogden Falls Boulevard, shortly before 6:32 p.m. Tuesday. The 2000 Infiniti that Nichols was driving hit a 2001 GMC Sierra driven by a 35-year-old Aurora man, police said. Neither the Aurora man nor the 4- and 5-year-old passengers in the car were injured, police said.

Nichols fled that accident, driving west and crashed again near Goodwin and Route 30, about half a mile from the first accident, police said. Police said Nichols hit a 2003 Expedition driven by Terry Clark, 57, of the 22000 block of Pilcher Road, Plainfield.

Miller was killed in the second crash, police said. Clark and Nichols were taken to Rush-Copley Medical Center.

Early Wednesday morning, police were notified that Nichols died.

Clark's condition was not available.

According to police, there was no indication alcohol was involved in the crash. Police said it was not yet clear why Nichols might have fled the scene.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

What makes people do such stupid things probably will never be answered. But to go from a minor traffic accident to two young guys dead is unreal. All you can pray is that your child is never in a car with a driver who makes such a poor decision.

Fire breaks out at Chicago area crematorium. Isn't there suppose to be a fire at a crematorium?

Batavia police block off Route 25 as Batavia firefighters work to contain a fire about noon Thursday at a crematorium/storage facility at River Hills Memorial Park, 1650 S River St. (Route 25), in unincorporated Batavia.

A fire broke out at a Batavia-area cemetery's crematorium and adjacent storage building about noon Thursday apparently while a body was being cremated, authorities said.

Batavia firefighters battled the Thanksgiving Day blaze at a crematorium/storage facility at River Hills Memorial Park, 1650 S. River St. (Route 25) in unincorporated Batavia.

Batavia Fire Chief Randy Deicke said the 50-by-50-foot metal frame building was fully engulfed in flames when the call came in at 11:59 a.m. No one was hurt.

Deicke said the building housed both the cemetery's crematorium and maintenance equipment for the cemetery grounds.

"We think one body was being cremated at the time," he said.

Deicke said the building, a total loss, was far from other buildings but that firefighters quickly had a tractor and truck moved to prevent the fire from spreading.

The fire department estimated that the structure was worth $550,000, its destroyed contents were worth $300,000, and about $50,000 in damage was estimated for a vehicle, according to a fire department press release.

The fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes, but firefighters stayed on scene until 2:18 p.m., authorities said. About 40 firefighters from St. Charles, Geneva, North Aurora and Fermilab assisted in putting out the blaze.

The fire did not appear to be suspicious, but it remains under investigation, fire officials said.

"We have no idea what happened -- it's a total loss," cemetery manager Chuck Lentz said. "We were running at the time," he said of the cremation services.

Route 25 was closed from Bond Street to Banbury Road for about two hours. Burlington Railroad operations were shut down during the incident as well.

"It was a defensive fire, so we didn't actually go inside the building," Deicke said. "It was so involved with fire that part of the roof had collapsed. It wasn't structurally sound to go inside to fight it."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

The only thing missing from this headline - Fire breaks out at Chicago area crematorium. - was the next statement: Over 20 dead bodies were turned into ashes!

Navy SEALs May Go to Prison for Giving a Fat Lip to Islamic Terrorist

A Most-Wanted Terrorist who was responsible for the murder of four American contractors, these 4 contractors were murdered, mutilated, burned and hung from a bridge - received a fat lip when he was arrested by Navy SEALs and physically fought the SEALs. Now President Obama ordered the Navy SEALs arrested and charged!

Photo: The bodies of four murdered American civilian contractors hang from a bridge after being mutilated and burned.

On March 31, 2004, a small convoy guarded by four American civilian contractors was ambushed at Fallujah, Iraq, and the guards were killed. The bodies of the four Blackwater security guards were burnt, hacked, and two of the mutilated bodies were hung for display on a bridge over the Euphrates river.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that in ” a macabre and murderous town fete, locals cheered as one corpse was attached to a car tow rope and pulled triumphantly up and down the main road….”

The article noted that “In terms of its sheer bestial violence, the attack on the Blackwater operatives was unprecedented….”

The ambush, and desecration of the bodies were all videotaped by Islamic extremists, and subsequently disseminated world-wide as anti-American propaganda.

This incident, believed to have been planned by Ahmed Hashim Abed, is widely held to have led directly to the first Battle of Fallujuh, that began four days after the guards were murdered.

All four of the American guards worked for Blackwater, out of Moyock, N.C. Blackwater (now called Xe—pronounced “zi”) was founded in 1997 by former Navy SEALs, Eric Prince, and Al Clark, (Clark later left to start Special Tactical Services).

One of the murdered guards, Scott Helvenston, was also a former SEAL.

In 2007, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, headed by Henry Waxman (D-CA), laid all of the blame for the slaughter at Blackwater’s doorstep. Their report does not mention Islam, terrorists, Muslim extremists, war, radicals, insurgents, or atrocity.

Reading the House report, one could be excused for thinking that the Blackwater operatives ambushed themselves.

This past September, the purported leader of the Fallujah ambush—“one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq”— was captured by Navy SEALs.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, code named “Objective Amber,” was briefly held at Camp Baharia (Dreamland), a Marine base adjacent to the main compound of Camp Fallujah, located about 2 miles southwest of the city. (Source)

Ahmed Abed alleges that while under the watch of Navy SEALs, he was punched, and suffered a bloody lip. Three SEALs are now facing court-martial charges.

A court-martial is defined as “a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial (military) law.”

The three SEALs have turned down the opportunity for a captain’s mast (also known as an admiral’s mast, or flag mast), which is not a trial, but a non-judicial discipline hearing.

Perhaps they are curious about the Pentagon’s pusillanimous pandering to political correctness. Or perhaps they would like to see real proof of their CIC’s citizenship.

Whatever their reasons, I salute their bravery, and service to our country—as I’m sure all patriotic Americans do as well.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Three true American heroes... Capture a most wanted terrorist. A terrorist jagoff who took the lives of three American contractors. Not only did this asswipe KILL 4 Americans, the 4 victims were mutilated, completely burned and then hung from a bridge as trophy pieces. AND THIS ASSHOLE GOT A FAT LIP FROM FIGHTING NAVY SEALs! And now US President Obama ordered these three heroes to be charged and arrested!

THIS IS AN OUTRAGED! Arresting three US Navy SEALs for this BULLSHIT! UNREAL!

Police: Alabama National Guardsman Killed for $120

SARALAND, Ala. — Police in Saraland say an Alabama National Guardsman was beaten and stabbed to death in a robbery that netted about $120 in cash.

Anthony Embley Sr.'s son-in-law and daughter, John Lamar Pope and Lacy Elizabeth Pope, are charged with murder. Embley's body was found in the hallway of his home last month.

Saraland Police Chief Kevin Anderson says John Pope was arrested in Baldwin County earlier this month after he failed a drug test, which was required as a condition of his parole on a previous conviction.

The Mobile Press-Register reports that John and Lacy Pope were arrested in 2005 in connection with a string of commercial burglaries.

Embley worked as a Black Hawk helicopter mechanic in Hope Hull, just south of Montgomery, and at Brookley Industrial Complex.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

He is the 2nd US serviceman killed during a robbery in the last week. What makes this one exceptionally bad... the two offenders include his own daughter and her husband.

Police Arrest South Dakota Boy for Shooting Mom With Arrow

Police Arrest South Dakota Boy for Shooting Mom With Arrow
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Police in Sioux Falls, South Dakota say a 17-year-old boy has been arrested after he shot his mother in the back with a homemade arrow fired from a makeshift bow.
Police spokesman Sam Clemens say the two got into an argument Tuesday evening.
Clemens says the boy used a fishing pole and a shoelace to make a rudimentary bow, then fashioned an arrow out of a sharpened plastic rod.
He says the mother ended up with a small cut on her back.
Police took the boy to a juvenile detention center.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

So the boy takes his time to make a homemade bow and arrow and still was made enough to shoot his mother with the arrow after he was done? This boy needs some anger management classes.... What could possibly get your son pissed off enough to shoot you with an arrow???


UPDATE: Another Son/Mother crime story:
Teen accused of poisoning mom
An 18-year-old Lindenhurst man has been charged with trying to poison his mother by pouring antifreeze into a coffee maker.
Michael J. Tangney Jr. is charged with heinous battery, a Class X felony.
Police said his mother was being treated at a hospital and was expected to survive.

On Tuesday, a man called police and said his 40-year-old wife was being treated for what doctors suspected was poisoning Lindenhurst police said they investigated, along with the Lake County Mayor Crimes Task Force.
The complaint against Tangney states that he "caused severe and great bodily harm to (his mother) in that he poured antifreeze into a coffee maker knowing that she would ingest the coffee."
Tangney was being held at Lake County Jail in Waukegan.

You be the judge.... Read this news story and let us know what you think... Leave your thoughts in the comment section

Suit claims Will County sheriff's deputy harassed neighbors
A lawsuit filed by Braidwood couple against a Will County sheriff's deputy asks that a video camera on his house aimed at their house be removed because it's frightening them and affecting their health.

The lawsuit, filed by Sherry Boyer, 60, and her husband, Mark Boyer, 49, also accuses Michael Nalley of pursuing a sexual relationship with Sherry Boyer beginning in July 2008 and making lewd comments to her from his patrol car as she walked her dog.

The Boyers say they were once good friends with Michael Nalley and his wife, Sara, their neighbors across Main Street, barbecuing and eating out together in Braidwood, southwest of Joliet.

But something changed, leading the Boyers in October 2008 to file a complaint with the sheriff's internal affairs office.

They detailed the alleged lewd remarks as well as what they said were items received from Nalley that he said he'd confiscated from people during his police job. The items included two switchblades and two beer kegs taken from underage drinking parties, they said.

In January, the Nalleys received a letter saying their complaint was "sustained" and that Nalley had been disciplined. A sheriff's spokesman said he could not comment on the case except to say that the discipline was "substantial." It is unclear whether discipline was handed down for any of the allegations made in the Boyers' complaint.

Last month, the Boyers filed the lawsuit , seeking removal of the camera as well as damages of more than $150,000.

Sherry Boyer said she has a terminal illness and is no longer comfortable sitting on her front porch alone and, even if she's with someone, keeps a video camera and tape recorder at her side. She and her husband have installed heavy black blinds over their bedroom and living room windows.

"He's got me so paranoid I don't even turn a (bedroom) light on," she said.

Parties on both sides have been cited by Braidwood police -- Michael Nalley and Sherry Boyer for disorderly conduct, and Sara Nalley for "obscene language," according to court records. Sherry Boyer said she was ticketed for pointing a laser light at her neighbor's exterior-mounted video camera.

Braidwood's interim police chief did not return messages seeking comment.

No matter how the court case goes, both sides may get some relief -- the Nalleys have placed their home up for sale.

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2 Female Chicago Police Officers Injured While Attacked On Duty

A 16-year-old boy is in custody after he allegedly attacked two officers attempting to assist a female with a badly cut hand Wednesday night in the North Side’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

Police responded at 11:57 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a domestic disturbance on the street in the 2500 block of West Estes Street and found a female with a badly cut hand and an unidentified 16-year-old boy standing nearby, police said.Officers attempted to question the female, who was “clearly afraid,” and asked the boy, who was allegedly intoxicated, to step away. The teen allegedly attempted to elbow a female officer in the face, then grabbed her by the vest and tried to throw her down. She and another officer eventually controlled the teen and took him into custody, police said.The female, whose age was unknown, was taken to an unidentified hospital, police said. The relationship between the female and the teen was not immediately known.

Both officers are complained about pain in their arms, and the female officer said she had a sore thumb, but declined medical treatment, police said.The teen remained in custody early Thursday, police said. Further details about him were not immediately available because he is a juvenile.

Belmont Area detectives are investigating.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Det. SLC wishes and prayers for a speedy and full recovery to the 2 female officers....

BLACK FRIDAY EARLY SHOPPERS - We's got no job and we's got our LINK card and we's be 1st in line to shop!

They don't call it "Black Friday" for no reason at all!
Photo:
Cousins Karen Wilson (left) and Vernita Calbert are ready to camp out for bargains tonight. They bring chairs, a cooler of Shiltz Malt Liquor, sandwiches, blunts, blankets, condoms and newspaper ads.

Early black shoppers brace for rush of Black Friday deals
Cousins Karen Wilson and Vernita Calbert have proudly sat in the No. 1 or No. 2 lawn chairs outside the 5 a.m. Black Friday opening of Toys R Us or Target for seven years. They head out at midnight with necessities in tow: sales coupons, a store map, lawn chairs, picnic basket and a plan to quickly grab the best door-buster deals.

Photo: Amazing that the newspaper couldn't find one white shopper, yet the black unemployment rate is over 20%.. Those free welfare checks come in handy!

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

If I had no job and got free government checks... I would have time to camp out to shop also.

CTA anti-harassment campaign in full swing

It's great to see the CTA ad campaign (below) against female harassment. I have long railed against jerks who harass or rudely touch women on trains and buses. And both my wife and college student daughter have been victims. In fact, most woman I know say they have been victimized.Kudos to the young women who kept the issue at the forefront and testified before a CTA board meeting about it. And to the CTA for acting on it.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

If she is showing that much bootie on the train... maybe she wants it touched, grabbed or man-handled!

2 Different "Tamara Hoffman"(s) both in trouble for love gone bad... What's the odds on this one?

Tamara Hoffman Teacher Sex Scandal
Tamara Hoffman, a 48-year-old math teacher was involved in a sex scandal with a student, Samuel Valdiva. He was tragically stabbed to death by Tamara's 20-year-old boyfriend Sixto Balbuena, when Balbuena caught the student, Valdiva and Hoffman having sex in her bedroom.


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The Next Tamara Hoffman News Story

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Cops: Illinois State official harassed woman in love triangle
The chief of staff for a state social service agency has left her job after allegedly using her state-issued telephone to harass another woman because the two had a relationship with the same man.

Tamara T. Hoffman boasted of her position in state government in the threats to the Rantoul woman, verbally abused and threatened a police officer when he contacted her and posted photos of herself and the man holding guns on a social networking Web site belonging to the alleged victim's daughte, according to Champaign County authorities.
Hoffman, 50, of Chicago, was arrested last weekend in McLean County and posted $2,500 bond, Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz said.

She left her $119,400 job as chief of staff to Department of Healthcare and Family Services director Barry Maram on Friday. Agency officials would not comment further. Hoffman did not respond to a message left at her home.

Rietz said Hoffman began repeatedly calling the Rantoul woman about Aug. 14. One threat, according to Rietz, began with an expletive and continued, "If you see him again, something bad is going to happen to you. I work for the state of Illinois and you don't know who you're messing with."

On Aug. 22, the woman, who does not have a listed phone number and could not be reached by The Associated Press, received 18 text messages from a number that investigators determined matched Hoffman's state cell phone.

"The 18th came in while the victim was giving information to the Rantoul police officer," Rietz said.

When the officer called Hoffman, Rietz said Hoffman was verbally abusive and threatened him with unspecified retaliation from "investigators in the Illinois State Police."

Authorities initially chose not to press the matter, hoping the threats would end, Rietz said.

But the victim contacted police again after photos were sent to the victim's daughter's Facebook page showing Hoffman holding a handgun and the man in the relationship holding some type of assault rifle, Rietz said. Another photo featured Hoffman and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

A Rantoul police spokesman did not return a call seeking comment.

Hoffman, who started her career in state government in 1999, made news last December during a House impeachment investigation of Blagojevich. One charge against the Democrat was that he pushed forward with a health care program that legislators had repeatedly nixed.

Hoffman was combative during the hearing and continually said she could not recall who in the governor's office told agency officials to continue with the program over lawmakers' objections.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

First we have a teacher who ends up getting one of her students killed because her other young lover caught them in bed together.... Now That's A Teacher!

Now we have an Illinois official making over a HUNDRED GRAND A YEAR and she uses her state issued cell phone to call her lover's other girlfriend....Smart baby... real smart....

AND BOTH HAVE THE SAME NAME... Tamara Hoffman

Remind me to break up with the woman I am dating now... her name is also Tamara Hoffman!!!

Man shot at White Castle Restaurant while having his ghetto Thanksgiving dinner.....

Man shot after struggling with gunman at White Castle
A man was shot and seriously wounded at a White Castle on the South Side this morning after he struggled with a gunman who had followed him into the restroom, police say.
The man was shot in the lower abdomen and was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, officials said.
He and his girlfriend had gone to the restaurant in the 1400 block of West 79th Street about 2 a.m., police said. The man went into the restroom and the gunman followed, kicked in a stall door and demanded his money, police said.
The two struggled and the man was shot, police said. The gunmen then robbed the man's girlfriend and three other patrons before fleeing. He was still at large late this morning.
The gunman was described as African-American, 35 to 40, 5-foot, 9-inches tall, 160 pounds, with black graying hair, wearing a blue coat and blue jeans.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Let me save a certain somebody from having to write the following:

If your having White Castle for Thanksgiving, YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA!

May your Thanksgiving Day be blessed with love, health, joy and happiness.

From the Detective Shavedlongcock Broadcasting Company
© 2009

Special clothing to prevent DNA transfer, tents and more... You have to love that the suburbs have more equipment than the Chicago Police Dept.

Investigators work at the scene where four people, including two boys, were found dead in an Addison home. (Tribune / Terrence Antonio James)
Couple, 2 boys found shot to death in suburban home


Thomas Mangiantini coached one of his two sons in youth baseball for years. A few days ago, his wife, Elizabeth, placed modest decorations of a Santa Claus and Merry Christmas ribbon on the stoop of the family's beige home on South Wisconsin Avenue in Addison.

Two nights before Thanksgiving, a friend bumped into Elizabeth at the local grocery store shopping for the holiday meal.

It all looked quintessentially suburban. But at about 6:30 the morning after that friendly encounter at the food store, a woman believed to be Elizabeth Mangiantini was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher notifying police that someone was shooting inside the house. Gunfire could be heard in the background, a source close to the investigation said.

When police arrived minutes later Wednesday, they had to force open locked doors.

Inside, they found four bodies. The bodies have not officially been identified, but according to sources, police believe that three bodies found upstairs were those of Thomas Mangiantini, 48, and sons Angelo, 11, and Tommy Jr., 7. A fourth body was found on the ground floor, and police believe it was that of Elizabeth Mangiantini, 46, the sources said.

Authorities recovered a handgun at the scene.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Had this been Chicago.... Every beat cop, tact cop and boss would be walking through the crime scene to "see it".

Black Wednesday turned to Red Bloody Wednesday - AT LEAST 5 SHOT IN ARMED ROBBERY

At least 5 shot at SE Side restaurant
A shooting during an apparent armed robbery at a Southeast Side restaurant left at least 5 people injured early today, authorities said.

Multiple shooting victims were taken from the scene at 79th Street and Marquette Avenue after the shooting at about 12:30 p.m., said Cmdr. Will Knight of the Chicago Fire Department.

Two people were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and two were taken to Stroger Hospital, all in serious-to-critical condition, he said. One additional person was taken in fair-to-serious condition to South Shore Hospital.

Additional information about the victims was not available, but Knight said the shooting happened at a restaurant at that location.

Police responded to a report of an armed robbery and found the victims at 2705 E. 79th St., said Officer Amina Greer of Police News Affairs, citing early reports. She said one person might be in custody, but again cautioned that information was preliminary.

She could not immediately provide information about ages or genders of the victims, but confirmed there were multiple shooting victims.

An Emergency Medical Services Plan 1 had been called for the shooting, Knight said.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Yes Mayor Daley, Paying gang bangers to stop the violence is really working. Time to pull back all these millions of dollars given to these bullshit "stop the violence" organizations.... and HIRE MORE COPS!

Couple slips though security to crash President Obama's state dinner

In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 photo, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, arrive at a State Dinner


This Couple Did Not Make It In:Photo: This couple was unable to crash the Official State Dinner. Shay-Nay-Nay Jackson and Cleothus Washington were stopped at the door and asked to leave.

WASHINGTON – Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.

The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said.

President Barack Obama was never in any danger because the party crashers went through the same security screening for weapons as the 300-plus people actually invited to the dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Donovan said.

Donovan confirmed the identities of the couple. The Washington Post, which first reported on their evening out, said the Salahis were well-known in the Virginia horse-country set.

The Secret Service learned about the security breach Wednesday after a media inquiry prompted by the Salahis' online boasts about having attended the private event, Donovan said.

One of the many photos from the dinner posted on Michaele Salahi's Facebook page shows the couple with a smiling Vice President Joe Biden. In other photos, they appear alone or together with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, CBS News anchor Katie Couric, Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., and three Marines in their dress blues.

Donovan would not comment on whether the couple had been contacted by the Secret Service, how long they were on the White House grounds or other details of the investigation.

The Post said uninvited guests who got in could face a potential trespassing charge unless someone from inside the White House staff slipped them in.

Donovan would not comment on possible legal violations.

The agency's Office of Professional Responsibility was reviewing what occurred. An initial finding indicated that a checkpoint did not follow proper procedures to ensure the two were on the guest list, Donovan said.

"It's important to note that they went through all the security screenings — the magnetometer screening — just like all the other guests did," Donovan said. And, he added, Obama and others under Secret Service protection had their usual security details with them at the dinner.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Believe me... one couple crashing the Official State Dinner is nothing compared to the thousand of terrorists that have been crashing our open and unprotected borders.

Tonight is Black Wednesday - I ask all my fellow Officers, Firefighters & My Loyal Viewers - Use caution tonight & PLEASE DON'T DRINK & DRIVE

Don't throw it all away on a night of partying. Go out, get blasted, have fun but please don't get behind the wheel of car. We have a handful of fellow cops and firemen either dead, in jail, lost their job & pension or all of the above for drinking and driving. IT'S NOT WORTH IT!

Please, no matter what your job, no matter if your retired...
I wish each and every one of you a safe Black Wednesday
and the Best Thanksgiving a person can have!

Sincerely,

Det. Shavedlongcock

Chicago Police Detective in Richard Speck case dies - Det. Jack G. Wallenda - Speck raped & killed 8 Chicago nurses in one incident

Jack G. Wallenda, a Chicago homicide detective on the midnight shift, took the biggest call of his career early on the morning of July 14, 1966.

Eight student nurses had been murdered in a Southeast Side town house. A seasoned street cop, Mr. Wallenda quickly set about protecting the crime scene.

From then on, he played a leading role in the case that resulted in the capture and prosecution of Richard Speck.

Mr. Wallenda, 83, died of congestive heart failure on Saturday, Nov. 21, in his home in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood, said his daughter Sharon Lopez.


"If I had my choice of all the detectives in Chicago for the Speck case, it would be Jack Wallenda," said Oak Park attorney William Martin, who as a young assistant with the Cook County state's attorney's office led the team that prosecuted Speck in a sensational 1967 trial.

"He protected the (murder) scene, which wasn't easy. He did a magnificent job of keeping it pristine for the crime lab," Martin said.

After taking part in the massive manhunt that led to Speck's arrest, Mr. Wallenda helped compile an exhaustive background on the killer, in anticipation of a possible insanity defense, Martin said.

He was also part of a small detail of detectives assigned to watch over the case's key witness, Corazon Amurao, who had hidden in the town house and survived Speck's rampage.

To ward off reporters and the curious, the detectives stayed in an apartment next to Amurao's through the end of Speck's trial.

"He became close friends and made her comfortable, which was crucial to making her the magnificent witness she was," Martin said. "She said she'd be all right as long as Jack and the other detectives were in the courtroom when she testified."

Mr. Wallenda and the other detectives assigned to Amurao diligently "sat like bumps on a log and monitored the testimony" throughout Speck's trial in Peoria, recalled Bob Wiedrich, who covered the event for the Tribune.

"There was nothing flamboyant about" the straightforward and soft-spoken Mr. Wallenda, said Rudy Nimocks, a former deputy superintendent with the Chicago police.

A Chicago native, Mr. Wallenda graduated from Lane Tech High School and served with the Army in the Philippines, said his son James. His uncle was Karl Wallenda, the famous tightrope walker who plunged to his death in Puerto Rico in 1978, his family said.

He joined the police force in the early to mid-1950s and before long was a detective, working out of Area 2 on the South Side.

"Jack was primarily steady midnight" shift, said Charles Lind, a retired police detective who worked with Mr. Wallenda. "Things would happen. You went there."

In the late 1960s, he worked briefly as an investigator with the state's attorney's office under Edward Hanrahan, then was chief investigator in the Illinois attorney general's office under William Scott.

Later, he was executive director of the Illinois Liquor Control Commission, where among his tasks was disciplining inspectors accused of taking bribes in the famed Mirage Tavern investigation.

Mr. Wallenda's wife, Stella, died in 2008.

He is also survived by sons Jack Jr. and William; daughters Sandra, Patricia Beauchamp and Donna Murphy; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Services are set for 10 a.m. Wednesday in Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 4727 W. 103rd St., Oak Lawn.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Jack never moved from his Roseland home on 123rd Street. One tough cookie!

She could have worn a potato sack and the press still would have said it was the most beautiful! Because it's Michelle "Thunder Thighs" Obama

Detective Shavedlongcock: In this below photo Michelle Obama looks like she just came out of a wind tunnel and was whacked with the "Ugly Stick" as she exited.

First lady's state dinner gown a stunner
Michelle Obama goes glam for state dinner (with a dress by little-known designer Naeem Khan)


Looking glamorous in an elegant strapless gown by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan, Michelle Obama welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Mrs. Gursharan Kaur to the White House Tuesday night and ushered in the Obama administration's first official state dinner.

Though she's become known for her (sometimes controversial) high-fashion risk-taking, tonight Mrs.Obama chose a dress with a classic floor-length cut in a subdued gold fabric and paired it with a light shawl. Her makeup was kept to a minimum and her hair done in a dignified updo. The entire ensemble seemed traditionally feminine and sophisticated, reminiscent of the first lady's more conservative predecessors.

But there were a few Michelle-style flourishes, including a pair of elaborate chandelier earrings and a stack of glittering gold-and-diamond bangles piled high on her left arm. Her choice of Khan as designer is also characteristic of this first lady, who often favors little-known artisans over big names. Khan has been on the fashion scene since 2003, and has outfitted youthful celebrities such as Beyoncé, Carrie Underwood, and Jennifer Lopez. He has also dressed dignitaries like Queen Noor and designed the costumes for the 2006 movie "Dreamgirls."

Tonight's look may mark a sartorial departure for Mrs. Obama, a shift into more sophisticated, luxurious, and regal attire, rather than the playful, accessible, less-polished clothing she's worn thus far.

It will also mean a big shift in popularity and business for Naeem Khan, who--like the first lady's favorite designer before him, Jason Wu--is more than likely about to become one of the most-searched and sought-after names in the business.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

I would rather masturbate with rough sandpaper than to see "that" naked! WTF is it? A dude? A woman? A chick with a dick?

Stabbing could be suburb's 1st homicide in 20 years - North Riverside, IL

Authorities in North Riverside are investigating a fatal stabbing tonight in what may be the village's first homicide in nearly 20 years.

Killed was Daniel Halligan, 62, of the 7700 block of West 26th Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. A spokesman said Halligan appeared to have suffered a stab wound to the chest and will undergo an autopsy Wednesday morning.

Authorities were notified after Halligan was found unresponsive inside of his home at about 7:20 p.m. and were conducting a death investigation, said North Riverside Police Chief Anthony Garvey.

He declined to release additional details, saying police were continuing their search for witnesses.

If ruled a homicide, it would be the village's first since 1990, Garvey said.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Wow, just imagine if the City of Chicago could have only one murder every 20 years.... Then again maybe not, the lack of overtime would suck! My mistake, keep the killings up please.

Chicago Police Shooting Ends With Six Arrested

6 charged after officer shoots at stolen-car suspects
Six people, three of them juveniles, were charged early this morning in connection with an incident in which a police officer fired shots after he was threatened with a gun during a traffic stop, Chicago police said.
The officer had stopped the vehicle, which turned out to be stolen, Tuesday afternoon in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side. All of the defendants were in the stolen car, police said.
The most serious charges--of aggravated assault on a police officer and possession of a stolen motor vehicle--were brought against a 16-year-old boy, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.
A 12-year-old boy also was charged with possession of a stolen car.
The other charges involved misdemeanor criminal trespass to a vehicle.
The incident happened when an officer was making a traffic stop in the 11300 block of South Edbrooke Avenue, police had said earlier. As the officer approached the car, one of the passengers allegedly threatened him with a gun. The officer then fired on the suspects who fled on foot, police said.
The officer called for backup and five of the six people were arrested. The sixth was picked up later.
No one was injured in shooting.

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

As always... thank the Lord the officers involved are fine.