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Man seriously injured in house fire in AustinCindy Hernandezon August 26, 2021 at 10:30 am
A man was seriously injured in a house fire late Wednesday in Austin on the Northwest Side.
About 11:50 p.m., firefighters responded to a call of a burning building in the 1400 block of North Linder Avenue, Chicago police said.
FIrefighters forced entry into the home and pulled out the 63-year-old man, police said. He suffered smoke inhalation and was transported to West Suburban Hospital in serious condition.
Chicago Fire Department is investigating the cause of the fire.
14-year-old boy shot in West Pullman homeCindy Hernandezon August 26, 2021 at 8:33 am
A 14-year-old boy was shot in his home early Thursday in West Pullman on the Far South Side.
The teen boy was in his living room about 12:35 a.m. in the first block of Easr 119th Street when someone outiside fired shots into the front window, Chicago police said.
A bullet struck him in the abdomen and he was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was stabilized, police said.
Area Two detectives are investigating.
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Man shot outside Homan Square gas station: policeSun-Times Wireon August 26, 2021 at 5:22 am
A man was shot to death late Wednesday night outside a Homan Square gas station.
The 36-year-old was at the gas station about 10:15 p.m. in the 3700 block of West Roosevelt Road when two people inside a gray car fired shots, Chicago police said.
He suffered multiple gunshot wounds on the body and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. He hasn’t been identified.
No arrests were made as Area Four detectives investigate.
Cubs can’t capitalize on comebacks, fall to the Rockies in extrasRussell Dorseyon August 26, 2021 at 3:44 am
It had been a while since the Cubs had swept a series, and after taking Game 1 of the doubleheader Wednesday against the Rockies, they had a chance to do just that.
The offense has carried the Cubs during their first two games against Colorado. After Rafael Ortega’s walk-off homer on Monday and Patrick Wisdom’s heroics in Game 1, it looked like the offense was going to carry them again in the nightcap.
The lineup wasn’t able to come through a final time in the Cubs’ 13-10 loss to the Rockies on Wednesday and dropping Game 2 of the doubleheader.
“These guys have fought to the end a lot,” manager David Ross said. “Sometimes, the pitching gets the best of us, but the effort, the intent and the focus is there night in and night out. We’re gonna make some mistakes at times. But the way this group goes about it, they’re locked into every pitch and engaged.”
After falling behind 2-0 in the first inning, the Cubs’ offense went to work, opening the bottom of the second inning with four consecutive hits. Not only did they respond with a five-run inning against Rockies ace German Marquez, but they also got left-hander Justin Steele off the hook.
After Steele left the game in the fourth, it was up to the bullpen, and things did not go well. Cubs relievers allowed six unanswered runs over the next three innings, including a fourth-inning grand slam.
Each time it seemed like the Cubs were knocked down, the offense kept getting back up, including a response in the seventh inning.
Matt Duffy led off the inning with a single before Frank Schwindel added an infield single to bring the tying run to the plate. Ian Happ got a pitch to hit and didn’t waste his chance, hitting a towering three-run homer into the left-center field basket to tie the game at 8-8.
The Cubs also came back with a game-tying run in the eighth on a throwing error by Rockies shortstop Trevor Story.
The Rockies scored two more runs in the inning on a two-run double by Brendan Rodgers.
The game wasn’t the best outing for the Cubs’ bullpen. Trevor Megill, Rex Brothers, Michael Rucker and Jake Jewell combined to allow a total of seven earned runs in the game. The one bright spot out of the bullpen was right-hander Adrian Sampson, who did not allow an earned run in two innings, enabling the Cubs to stay in the game late.
The game also was not the best outing for Steele, who made his third start of the season. He allowed five earned runs over 3 2/3 innings with two walks and five strikeouts. The Cubs’ left-hander has made it through five innings just once since joining the team’s rotation.
“I wish my fastball command would have been a little bit better,” Steele said. “I made some mistakes over the plate. Just wasn’t commanding both sides of the plate. That’s something I need to work on moving forward. Threw both my breaking pitches tonight. Threw my changeup, but yeah, I’d say fastball command is something I need to work on.”
“He’s still growing,” Ross said. “I’ll talk to him and we’ll reassess after the off-day. … I think there’s a huge upside potential in there. But tonight, I don’t think it was his best.”
The Cubs were unable to capture their first sweep since June 11-13 against the Cardinals. But they won just their fourth series since the All-Star break after taking the first two games of the series.
Nirvana album cover model sues, says nude baby photo was child pornAndrew Dalton | Associated Presson August 26, 2021 at 2:04 am
LOS ANGELES — A 30-year-old man who appeared nude at 4 months old in 1991 on the cover of Nirvana’s classic “Nevermind” album is suing the band and others, alleging the image is child pornography they have profited from.
The suit, filed by Spencer Elden on Tuesday in federal court in California, alleges that Nirvana and the record labels behind the album “intentionally commercially marketed Spencer’s child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense.”
The suit says Elden has suffered “lifelong damages” from the ubiquitous image of him naked underwater appearing to swim after a dollar bill on a fish hook.
It seeks at least $150,000 from each of more than a dozen defendants, including the Kurt Cobain estate, surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, and Geffen Records.
Emails seeking comment from representatives for the defendants were not immediately returned.
Elden is filing the lawsuit now because he “finally has the courage to hold these actors accountable,” one of his attorneys, Maggie Mabie, told The Associated Press Wednesday.
Mabie said despite the photo being 30 years old, the suit is within the statute of limitations of federal child pornography law for several reasons, including the fact that the image is still in circulation and earning money.
Elden also wants any new versions of the album altered.
“If there is a 30th anniversary re-release, he wants for the entire world not to see his genitals,” Mabie said.
When the cover was shot, Nirvana was a little-known grunge band with no sense they were making a generation-defining album in “Nevermind,” their first major label release, whose songs included “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come as You Are” and “Lithium.”
Elden’s father was a friend of the photographer, Kirk Weddle, who took pictures of several swimming babies in several scenarios at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena, California.
“Cobain chose the image depicting Spencer — like a sex worker — grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed,” the lawsuit says.
Elden has recreated the image several times, always with clothes or swim trunks on, for anniversaries of the album’s release, and has expressed mixed feelings about it in interviews that have grown increasingly negative through the years.
He told the New York Post in 2015 that it was “cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember.”
He added, “It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis.”
The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been victims of sexual abuse, but may when they have repeatedly come forward publicly, as Elden has.
White Sox waste strong start from Lucas Giolito, fall to Blue JaysDaryl Van Schouwenon August 26, 2021 at 2:17 am
You all remember Lucas Giolito, staff ace?
It was only a year ago, and the year before that, when Giolito held the title for the White Sox. A sluggish start — by his standards — coupled with All-Star first halves from right-hander Lance Lynn and Carlos Rodon — loosened Giolito’s grip on that distinction.
But here he comes again.
The 27-year-old right-hander’s one-run performance over six innings in a 3-1 loss to the Jays Wednesday was his latest strong start. Seeing it go for naught after the Jays scored two runs against Aaron Bummer in the eighth inning as the Sox dropped to 2-4 on their current road trip against the Jays and Rays was unsettling.
But seeing Giolito (3.68 ERA) give up five hits and one walk while striking out six, dropping his ERA to 2.77 over his eight starts since the All-Star break, softened the blow for a first-place team (73-55) that is 19-20 since the All-Star break and has scored seven runs in the last four games.
“I’m not too concerned with where we’re at right now,” Giolito said. “Some guys offensively are not getting those big hits in certain situations or stringing things together. We lost but we were in it the whole time. Guys are working through stuff — we’ll pick each other up, we have confidence in each other and we’ll start to get hot again and play solid baseball leading to the playoffs.”
Giolito got 19 swings and misses, most of them with his changeup, but he had no margin for error in a matchup with Jays left-hander Robbie Ray, who struck out 14 in seven innings of one-run ball. Right fielder Leury Garcia singled, stole two bases and scored on Yoan Moncada’s bloop single to right in the third inning for the Sox only run.
The Jays, fighting for a Wild Card spot, tied it in the fourth on Corey Dickerson’s RBI triple with two outs that sailed over Garcia’s head, and they went ahead in the eighth when Bummer gave up three straight singles, the third one by Alejandro Kirk scoring Teoscar Hernandez.
The Sox have three good starts in the series but one win to show for it, although manager Tony La Russa said “the two losses were not bullpen breakdowns.”
An error by Moncada on a ground ball, and a bases loaded walk to Randal Grichuk by Jose Ruiz gave the Jays an extra run.
Giolito, meanwhile, showed his versatility by leaning on his bread and butter changeup Wednesday after he had gone to the slider more in his last two starts. He had inadvertently “messed up the grip with my changeup” early in the season but corrected it. He also evolved from a two-pitch — four-seam fastball and changeup — pitcher to a three-pitch hurler, adding an effective slider to his mix, especially in his last three starts.
“I wouldn’t say I ever lost confidence with my stuff at any point in the season,” Giolito said. “It was just frustration with lack of results. And we just had to make a few adjustments to where now I feel like I’m in a much better place pitching, about as well as I can. I just want to keep improving.”
Giolito said the highlight of his career was pitching in the postseason last year, when he beat the Athletics in Game 1 of the Wild Card. He says he’s not looking ahead to his next playoff appearance.
“Not really, because we still have something like 40 games left and we have to stay on top of what we need to do,” he said. “I know the division lead is big and the coaching staff is finding ways to give players rest when they need it and make sure we’re prepared for the playoffs but we’ve got to stay focused on our day to day, game to game. We need to win this game and maintain that mentality going right into the postseason.”
California felon fatally shot by Amtrak cop was wanted for murder 3 days earlierTom Schubaon August 26, 2021 at 1:18 am
Just three days before Jamar Jason Taylor was killed by Amtrak police in a rush-hour shootout inside Union Station, the convicted felon was allegedly caught on video carrying out a fatal shooting in northern California, court records show.
Taylor, 33, of San Leandro, California, had hopped an Amtrak train from his home state Tuesday, the same day a warrant was issued for his arrest for the murder in nearby Oakland, according to court documents obtained by the Sun-Times. A document for probable cause, filed Tuesday in Alameda County, California, shows that Taylor was sought in the fatal shooting Saturday morning in Oakland.
About 9:20 a.m. that night, Oakland police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 8800 block of International Boulevard and found someone suffering from a gunshot wound that proved fatal, the document states. The East Bay Times, a local newspaper, identified the victim as a 55-year-old man.
Officers ultimately recovered “clear high definition” video surveillance footage of Taylor and a “suspect vehicle,” according to the document for probable cause.
The warrant shows that Taylor was being sought for murder, illegally possessing a gun as a felon and a host of other allegations. He was on probation at the time of his death.
Taylor already had one strike under California law, according to the warrant, meaning he had already been convicted of a violent or serious felony. His previous convictions included making criminal threats, attempted grand theft person, second-degree commercial burglary and driving under the influence, according to the warrant.
Tom Ahern, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said a law enforcement agency in California alerted Amtrak Police that Taylor was headed to Chicago on a train from northern California and that he was wanted on multiple warrants, including the one for murder.
“They checked the manifest and corroborate that information and then are waiting for him here,” Ahern said of Amtrak Police.
When Amtrak officers confronted Taylor after he got off the train at Union Station, he started running and knocked over a couple Amtrak employees before firing a shot at one of the officers, Ahern said. The officer then returned fire, striking him in the chest.
Taylor was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and later pronounced dead, according to Ahern and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A semiautomatic handgun was recovered at the scene, Ahern said.
The Amtrak employee suffered minor injuries, and an Amtrak officer was also taken to the hospital for evaluation, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said. No other injuries were reported.
Ahern noted that CPD investigators conducted interviews at the scene, took the initial case report and are now “working jointly with the Amtrak police.” Magliari said Chicago police will complete its report and provide it to Amtrak’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which reviews use-of-force incidents like the fatal officer-involved shooting.
It’s still unclear why the Amtrak officers were charged with intercepting a felon wanted for murder, instead of the U.S. Marshals Service, which assists state and local agencies in apprehending violent fugitives.
Magliari directed questions about the deployment of the marshals to the federal agency, which didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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