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EPD charges two men in connection with killing of Yakez Semark

February 18, 2018

Evanston Police Department has charged two people in connection with the homicide of Yakez Semark on Feb. 8, the city announced in a news release Sunday. Police found after an investigation that Evanston...

Medill alumna who worked for ABC7 Chicago murdered in Belize

January 19, 2016

ABC7 Chicago executive producer Anne Swaney (Medill ’98) was found strangled to death Friday in Belize, where she was on vacation. An autopsy determined the 39-year-old executive producer of online...

Five arrested in connection with shooting death of Skokie high school student

October 5, 2014

Update, 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 A fifth person was arrested Monday morning in connection with the shooting of two 17-year-old Skokie residents on Sept. 28., police said. Four other men were arrested...

Updated: Evanston man charged in Chicago cold-case murder, ordered held without bail

December 13, 2013

An Evanston man has been charged with first-degree murder after DNA linked him to a fatal attack on an elderly woman more than 25 years ago in Chicago, police said Thursday evening. Prentice...

Watters: Northwestern campus too quiet about gun violence in Chicago

February 6, 2013

To say that Chicago is a city plagued by violence would be an understatement. Furthermore, to say that Northwestern students don’t all know about the mass amounts of violence, specifically perpetrated...

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