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Police say three men have been hospitalized following a drive-by shooting on the city's South Side.

Chicago's oldest operational firehouse is celebrating its 135th birthday.

Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority is investigating two separate police shootings on the city's South Side that left two men dead.

Ryan Dempster has been unbeatable at Wrigley Field. Now, it seems, so are the Cubs.Dempster improved to 9-0 at home, Aramis Ramirez hit his fourth homer in three games, and the Cubs completed a sweep of the crosstown White Sox 7-1 Sunday night.

NEW ORLEANSûRevius Ortique Jr., a former civil rights attorney who became the first Black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84.

Chicago police are investigating the death of a man who was found unresponsive on a sidewalk on the city's South Side.

The Reverend Michael Pfleger, the Catholic priest who got in trouble for mocking Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has returned to his Chicago parish after a nearly two-week suspension.

WASHINGTONûA presidential candidate who's named Hussein and wears a turban? A building that's called the White House but run by a Black guy?

HARARE, Zimbabwe%uFFFDPolice raided the opposition party's headquarters and took away about 60 people Monday, a spokesman said, a day after the party's presidential candidate withdrew from a runoff against longtime leader Robert Mugabe.

LOS ANGELESûThe little boy's body was a study in pain. He was covered in cigarette burns, including to his genitals.