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Midday News Links: Four Charged In Joliet Double Slaying

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jan 14, 2013 7:40PM


  • Four people have been charged with the strangling death of two people in Joliet, and they're due in court today. Police say the suspects also tried to dismember the bodies of the two 22-year-old victims. The suspects range in age from 18 to 24, two women and two men, including the son of a Joliet police sergeant. Three of the suspects were found playing video games in the home where it happened. [CBS]

  • A Forest Park man is dead after a shooting at a gas station on the West Side. The man either drove or was driven from the scene, but he didn't make it far, and the incident closed down a lane of the Eisenhower early this morning. [Tribune]

  • Brotherly Love: Cicero President Larry Dominick's brother testified against him to the election board. [Sun-Times]

  • The former stepson of White Sox Executive Vice President Ken Williams is accused of attacking a woman at the Palmer House hotel early Saturday morning. [Sun-Times]

  • A car was found upside down in a creek in Plainfield, leaving one man dead. [Patch]

  • Attorney says man accused in TBOX bar crawl stabbing was drugged. [DNAinfo]

  • President Barack Obama's will deliver his next State of the Union address on Abraham Lincoln's birthday. [NBC]