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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

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Police Blotter: Man charged with possessing more than 2.5 pounds of marijuana

August 18, 2015

A 27-year-old man was arrested Friday morning in connection with possessing approximately 2.7 pounds of marijuana. Police used a search warrant to enter Charles Kendall’s home at about 8 a.m. in the...

Evanston will more seriously consider the implementation of officer-worn body cameras after the governor signed Wednesday a new law regulating them. Starting January, the state will add $5 to fines for criminal and traffic convictions to help fund the cameras.

Evanston to consider officer-worn body cameras after governor signs state-wide legislation

August 14, 2015

Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation Wednesday setting state standards for the use of officer-worn body cameras, prompting Evanston officials to begin considering more seriously the implementation of...

Deputy city manager Joe McRae to leave Evanston

August 13, 2015

Evanston’s Deputy City Manager Joe McRae will depart next month after seven years of service, leaving his legacy in the city’s 311 information service, a project he spearheaded in 2010. McRae will...

(From left) City attorney Grant Farrar, Evanston police chief Richard Eddington and Cmdr. Joseph Dugan discuss the recent court ruling on the racial profile case involving the son of Medill Prof. Ava Greenwell. The case was dismissed Aug. 6 from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Appeal of Greenwell racial profiling case dismissed

August 13, 2015

A second federal judge ruled last week that Evanston police had acted reasonably in a racial profiling case from three years ago involving a Northwestern professor’s son, in which an officer mistakenly...

Northwestern law professor Steven Lubet led a literary salon on Harper Lees Go Set a Watchman at Bookends & Beginnings Tuesday night. The bookstores first literary salon included a discussion on the contrasting portrayal of Atticus Finch in the new novel compared to Lees To Kill a Mockingbird.

Bookends & Beginnings debuts literary salon series with conversation on ‘Go Set a Watchman’

August 12, 2015

Northwestern law professor Steven Lubet (Weinberg ‘70) led a conversation at Bookends & Beginnings on Tuesday evening about author Harper Lee's new novel "Go Set a Watchman" and its effect on Americans'...

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