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boyfriend an ax, but is the accused of having her killed he used his son and another cop to do the dirty work ... schumachevron alexander was murdered and her boyfriend 39 year-old devin bickham str. is being held.. >>police say the senior bickham was in the parking lots when a son and another officer showed up and shot her dead ... he called it 911 to act like a witness but the other two were caught in a neighboring suburb with the guns ... police believed it was a case of a married man wanting to get rid of the girlfriend who was pressuring him to leave his wife for her all three suspects are due in court tomorrow ... >>and 911 operator killed scion alleged in truckdriver was memorialized this morning ... it funeral service was held for mercy adkins at st. joseph can't church in lincoln park she will be laid to last at st. mary's cemetery and evergreen park harrison is accused of stealing and as tv while drunk and high and plowing into her at comet tosh and whine of last weekend the loyola academy graduate charged with fatally punching a mount carmel high school student on the fourth of july pleaded not guilty this morning ... james miller has a live report from michigan city indiana >>james malecek check said nothing this morning as he with an attorney walked into court house this morning ... he was involved in the fight that caused the death of kevin kennelly of chicago he died of blunt force trauma to the head after malacek punched him and hadm leading to his deeath he is free on bond and will be a freshman this fall at texas christian university but he is placed on probation pending the evolution of the case he has a court appearance september 1st ... a a chicago man who is out on bond awaiting trial for murder has been arrested and charged with beating a man at the south side beach last weekend police say luis pina and eight others punched and kicked a man who they thought was taking pictures of his girlfriend at rainbow beach on sunday he allegedly pointed a gun at that man and awarded the others to take his cellular phone before they attacked him prosecutors say that luis pina is charged with that 2008 shooting death of a teen who was shot and she helped her blind sister and a south side allie ... commonwealth edison said everyone in the chicago area lost power in monday's storm should have service backed by the weekend right now 97,000 homes and businesses across the area are still without electricity. the vast majority 73,000 are in the north region ... north suburban lake county is still a lot of stress related outages and damage ... nancy loo has a live report from the county that declared a state of emergency ... the plan of attack is described as a full-court press and the waukegan area today contract it crews from far away as tennessee are helping commonwealth edison to restore power with 12,000 v lines and a storm induced breast to work around the process can get complicated this job will take up to four hours but it should bring results for 1200 customers with the problem is there are hundreds just like this one in the meantime some waukegan streets are still blocked by massive trees and angled and power lines and lots of spoiled food have joined those debris piles along the curbs of this neighborhood when women estimates her family lost $300 worth of groceries ... >>we are surviving on a day to day basis we just deal with what we can handle each day ... it will be the weekend before customers will be back on line and cost and customers and residents here are grateful for the cool weather ... commonwealth edison recently earned a low score on the j.d. power and associates survey of utility services the ranked one 12th out of 124 for overall performance and next to the bottom in the rankings for customer satisfaction that survey was taken before storms in june and july that knocked out power to hundreds and thousands in the chicago area ... just days after his trial began a judge declares a mistrial in the federal perjury case against roger clemens tensions are rising on both sides of the isle the warning that president obama is issuing as the heated debt talks s sheet or bar? how do you get your bounce? oh i'm a forgetter. i tend to forget things all the time. so i'm a bar person. i don't need to remember the dryer sheet, so if i forget i'm still good. woman: (shouting) remember the bar! 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on the medical watch why cancer kills more men and women ... researchers analyzed data from cancer registry's across the united states. they looked at 36 types of cancer and did not include sex specific form such as prostate and breast cancers their report men died at much higher rates than women for all but three extremely rare cancers the researchers say survival after diagnosis accounts for just a small part of the difference most of the disparity is because men are more likely than women to develop cancer in the first place ... the swine flu shot apparently is not as bad as reported in new studies clearing up a shot from charges that it caused an increase of the disease known as dion parson drumjohn barr syndromguillan- brre syndrome.. ... that is a rare disorder that causes damage to nerve cells and the union system and could cause paralysis the new studies published in the british medical journal lancet ... researchers say the h1n1 vaccine poses little if any increased risk for the disease ... scientists have found a link between a smelly feet and pesky mosquitoes researchers at a tanzanian health institute are developing traps using natural and artificial foot odor to lohr malaria spreading the skiers ... today we are celebrating bastille day ... today we are celebrating french independence with local french chef didier durand ... he is making a traditional coq au vin ... today we will use beaujolais ... i cut up the chicken and pieces of brown to them and a little bit of duck fat season to them with salt and pepper ... i am adding mushrooms that will absorb of the flavor of the winde.. and we have a little bit of bacon flavor ... as a garnish i used phenyl carrots fennel carrots fingerling potatoes.. and i am using a george de bouef beau jolais.. ... one of these french wines are $10 a bottle and they're good ... these are wonderful wines that last for a long time and they are great with chicken and fish we don't typically think of a red wine with these food accompaniments but these are lighter pulitzer and fresherand fresh.. we will put the recipe and the names of these wines on our web site. that is one heavenly smell ... he has the table set ... dinner for two ... and i served it for a starter a block of tappan nodack olive tapenade.. we are celebrating bastille day at my restaurant tonight cyrano's bistrot ... we have live music and a four course dinner for $39 we are at 546 north wells street here in chicago ... i'm complete this for you dina ... the trauma is great ... you can watch this again or just get the recipe at wgntv.com/midday. hi, we're looking to save some money on our car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side so you get the same coverage often for less. wow! that is huge! 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