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Look at those roads now. Great news. This is the florida turnpike. Were heading south here in chopper 6. This is from around the hoft boulevard area passing the stadium area and all is well there. No hesitation at all, evenen when you get through the golden interchange still looks like a good trip. As you try to get on the south side, you see 95 picks up a notch or two. The taillights are heading for downtown miami but still getting by easily. A smooth ride, an accident free one so far. Thats tr...

New Kensington police say officers found a stolen handgun and drugs during a traffic stop early Friday. Jacquet Rusher Woods, 46, of Arnold is charged with felony counts of receiving stolen property, prohibited possession of a firearm and carrying a firearm without a license. He also is charged with felony

Jennifer Gonnerman on the overturned convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren, and on a juror, Luana Mango Dunn, who had initially deemed them guilty.

Childhood pals Eric Smokes and David Warren hope Wednesday they will hear a judge vacate their convictions in a 1987 Times Square murder they have long said they did not commit. Smokes and Warren were teens when they were arrested for the fatal mugging of 71-year-old French tourist Jean Casse, who was attacked on W. 52nd St. on Jan. 1, 1987, minutes after the New Year’s Eve ball drop. They ...

The delayed farrier apprenticeship exams have been given the green light as a new assessment organisation is approved. VetSkill has been approved by the Farriers Registration Council (FRC) and Ofqual to deliver the end-point assessments, after the FRC withdrew its approval of the Worshipful Company of Farriers (WCF). In October H&H reported that the FRC […]

Lockport Tables Purchase Of Property In Downtown - Homer Glen-Lockport, IL - The Council decided to continue the ordinance to discuss at its Jan. 17 committee of the whole meeting.

Lockport Quiet Zone Begins Dec. 19 - Homer Glen-Lockport, IL - The two Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) crossings will become quiet zone crossings, Benson said.

Lockport Approves Concept Plan For 148-Unit Townhome Development - Homer Glen-Lockport, IL - The concept plan for a 148-unit town home development, called Oak Valley, is north of 151st Street and west of Interstate 355.

Students were evacuated from Lockport Township High School Thursday morning after a ceiling collapsed into a classroom at the facility, officials said.

Nearly four decades after they were busted for the New Year’s Day murder of a French tourist in Times Square, two childhood friends who have long professed their innocence appear to be on the brink of finally clearing their names. In an Oct. 6 letter a top prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked a judge for a “pre-motion conference to discuss an anticipated motion to ...