Haines Elementary News Today

Students at a Jackson elementary school are now walking around with a fresh new pair of shoes thanks to a donation from FedEx.

The Baker School District has made several changes to administrative staff at two schools for the coming academic year.

CAMP ELKANAH — Jean Ann Mitchell ended the botany lesson with a snack.

“We’re not asking for an additional anything, just save our teachers” a Chicago Public Schools parent said Tuesday. “We’re not asking for more, we’re just asking for the status quo.”

The number of empty seats in Baker classrooms remains above average, but otherwise the school year continues as usual.

"I was blown away, I was just so stunned. We just weren’t ready for it, nor did we grasp what was going on," said family friend Jimmy Lee. "I have great memories of walking down the streets here, going to some of these coffee shops, he loved playing ping pong, he loved having coffee with his friends, he loved going to some of the shops."

Woom Sing Tse was shot Tuesday as he was walking to get a newspaper. His three children remembered his hard work, his respect for everyone and his love for family.

Alphonso Joyner, 23, was ordered held without bail during a court hearing Thursday following his arrest on charges including first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon stemming from the brazen killing of 71-year-old Woom Sing Tse.

A 71-year-old Chicago man was fatally shot in broad daylight while reportedly walking to a local Chinatown store to pick up a newspaper.

At least until the instrument froze in the December chill. The potential for a weather delay wasn’t the only unconventional thing about the concerts at the school that teaches fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders. South Baker students were treated to classic carols not in the normal venue of the gymnasium/cafeteria, space where it’s more likely to be stifling than frigid. Instead they listened to the tunes outside as they filed into the school each morning this week. The performer was th...