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- Routine California traffic stop leads to seizure of 30 pounds of cocaine worth more than $800K
on August 16, 2026 at 6:48 amA California Highway Patrol canine officer stopped a Honda CR-V in Merced County and allegedly found 30 pounds of suspected cocaine worth $817,200.
- Alaska runner hospitalized after using bear spray to fight off brown bear on Alaska trail
on August 16, 2026 at 1:32 amA runner on Anchorage's Wolverine Bowl trail used bear spray to fend off a brown bear and was hospitalized, marking the second attack in the area in weeks.
- Nevada man funneled 140 guns to violent Mexican drug cartels, including powerful 'military-style' rifles: DOJ
on August 16, 2026 at 1:06 amLuis Alberto Osorio admitted to buying 140 firearms including military-style rifles for violent Mexican drug-trafficking organizations in a straw purchase scheme.
- Ex-detective who served fraction of 102-year sentence faces new charges after cold case review
on August 15, 2026 at 10:13 pmFormer Los Angeles vice detective Michael Douglas Brambles, paroled in 2020 under California's elderly inmates law, faces new kidnapping charges.
- Florida middle school teacher admits to years of 'inappropriate' conversations with former student: deputies
on August 15, 2026 at 9:29 pmChristian Schneider, a Memorial Middle School teacher, allegedly sent inappropriate messages to a former teenage student since 2023, authorities say.
- Pritzker tours storm damage, signs flood relief bill expanding local Chicago programson August 15, 2026 at 3:20 pm
Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new law to allow more homeowners to access financial relief if their home is flooded. The bill signing comes as residents around Illinois dealt with yet another round of severe weather this week.
- Why hundreds of communities are scrambling to find road salton August 15, 2026 at 2:31 pm
Winter is still months away. But communities already are scrambling to store up road salt for the snowy season ahead. That lately has been a challenge for municipalities that count on buying salt through the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, only to be left out in the cold.
- 'Unprecedented': Summer storms have been history-makingon August 15, 2026 at 2:28 pm
It’s not your imagination: This summer has been exceedingly stormy.
- Influx of funding means new Amtrak trains, updates for aged rail bridges, repair shops in regionby Marni Pyke on August 14, 2026 at 11:11 pm
Updated Amtrak trains are coming to Midwest lines including the Illini/Saluki between Chicago and Carbondale.
- Neighbors oppose data center plan for WGN site, but Elk Grove mayor says truck depot would be worseby Christopher Placek on August 14, 2026 at 10:57 pm
Some Elk Grove Village residents oppose plans for a data center campus at the WGN radio transmitter site, but Mayor Craig Johnson defends the project as preferable to a trucking and logistics center.
- PHOTOS: Thunderbirds and Army fighter jets roared at Air and Water Showby Sun-Times staff on August 16, 2026 at 4:30 am
Rain slowed down the start of the 2026 Air and Water Show, the annual summer showcase of military […]
- 4 wounded in Auburn Gresham shootingby Sun-Times Wire on August 16, 2026 at 3:08 am
Four people were wounded in a shooting Saturday evening in Auburn Gresham, Chicago police said.The […]
- 2 wounded in Austin drive-by shootingby Sun-Times Wire on August 15, 2026 at 11:34 pm
A 50-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were wounded in a shooting Friday morning in Austin, […]
- Chicago startup's NHL deal creates new way to bet on sports teams' performanceby Chris Casacchia on August 15, 2026 at 11:00 am
Hockey fans and everyday investors could soon trade on the performance of the Blackhawks or other […]
- Dialysis patient found bound, gagged in south suburbs after robbery in Chicago, police sayby Sun-Times Wire on August 15, 2026 at 2:08 am
A man was allegedly taken and later found bound and gagged outside a Harvey home on Friday after […]
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