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Five students were rushed to area hospitals Tuesday afternoon after a bus rolled over on the Dan Ryan Expressway near Guaranteed Rate Field.The single-vehicle rollover crash happened around 2:31 p.m. on the northbound lanes at 35th Street, according to Illinois State Police.The students, all teenagers, were transported with minor injuries, Chicago fire spokesperson Larry Merritt said.

Actor Treat Williams attends the world premiere of Second Act in New York on Dec. 12, 2018.Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP DORSET, Vt.Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series Everwood and the movie Hair, died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said.

Local The crashes occurred as wintry weather hit the region Sunday and Monday.However, it's unclear if the weather played a role in some of the crashes.At least three Massachusetts residents died in car crashes Sunday and Monday as a winter storm hit the region.However, the weather's role in the fatal crashes is unclear.

Sympathizers of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists held protests and scuffled with police in some German cities after the verdict.The Dresden state court on Wednesday convicted Lina E., whose full name wasn't released due to privacy rules, of membership in a criminal organization and serious bodily harm.

In a previously unreported letter obtained by The Times, the head of the Virginia State Police detailed errors in his agency's hiring of Austin Lee Edwards, the now-deceased "catfish" cop who killed three people in Riverside in late November.Although Edwards had told the agency about his 2016 visit to a psychiatric facility, the agency failed to search databases for his mental health history before hiring him as an officer, Col. Gary Settle, the state police superintendent, wrote in the letter, which was addressed to a post office box associated with Virginia's inspector general.

A southwestern Indiana coroner is facing official misconduct and drug charges following a nearly yearlong investigation, state police said Thursday.Knox County Coroner Karen Donovan, 40, was arrested Wednesday night at her Vincennes home after detectives serving a search warrant found methamphetamine and fentanyl, Indiana State Police said in a news release.

Local It took crews two-and-a-half hours and 20,000 gallons of water to extinguish the electric vehicle fire.It took firefighters more than two hours and over 20,000 gallons of water to put out a Tesla fire following a single-car crash on Interstate 95 in Wakefield Thursday night.Wakefield fire officials and state police responded to the crash on the northbound lane near Exit 59 at 10:47 p.m., according to a press release from the Wakefield Fire Department.

A woman who taught at a Delaware middle school was charged with rape and sexual abuse following an alleged relationship with an underage student, state police said.Reed Messer, 42, was charged this week with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust, as well as 10 counts of third-degree rape and 10 counts of fourth-degree rape.

One Evanston man was charged with murder and authorities have issued an arrest warrant for another suspect in the same September 2022 attack on southbound I-55 on Chicago's South Side.Terry Reid, 27, was arrested at his home on Thursday by Illinois State Police and is facing of one count of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder in the shooting that happened Sept. 17 in the southbound lanes of I-94 at I-55, according to a statement from state police.

A 42-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a domestic incident in Blackstone on Saturday morning, according to the Worcester County District Attorney's Office.Blackstone police responded to the scene at a residence on Blackstone Street around 11:15 a.m., a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office said via email.

Northborough police are searching for a driver who fled after crashing their vehicle Saturday night, according to the Northborough Police Department.The department reported that it believes the suspect may be staying with a family member.NPD plans to put out a warrant for the individual's arrest, but has called off help from Westborough and state police, who assisted in the search Saturday.

Crime Hongyan Sun strangled and killed his wife during a fight.A Lexington man convicted of strangling and killing his wife was sentenced to life in prison.On Feb. 3, a Lowell Superior Court jury found 49-year-old Hongyan Sun guilty of first degree murder for the death of Shen Cai.The Middlesex District Attorney's Office said in a news release Friday that Cai's body was found in her car in the early morning of May 29, 2019, on a public street near the home she shared with Sun.

Natick resident Joseph Franciose, 52, has been identified as the person who was struck and killed by a Commuter Rail train in Natick Monday afternoon.The Middlesex District Attorney's Office said Tuesday that authorities responded to East Central Street near the Natick/Wellesley town line shortly after 4:20 p.m.

Local Joshua West was last seen near Norwich Lake in Huntington around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, according to officials.Massachusetts State Police is requesting the public's help in locating a 17-year-old who has been missing since Thursday.Joshua West was last seen near Norwich Lake in Huntington around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, the agency said.

Illinois State Police have identified a man who was fatally shot last weekend by officers he had tried to attack with a machete as they were serving an arrest warrant.State police said Monday that Rodney G. Williams, 66, died following Saturday morning's shooting at his apartment in the Stark County city of Toulon.

Massachusetts State Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a car that reportedly shot at another vehicle on a highway in Worcester Wednesday night.Police said that troopers assigned to the Holden Barracks responded to reports of a blue Toyota Rav4 struck with "numerous rounds of ammunition" on Route 290 westbound in the area of Exit 16/Route 146 in Worcester on Wednesday, between 8:10 p.m. and 8:20 p.m.
Nobody was injured during the incident and police say that the suspected car is a black Cadillac sedan.

State police are investigating an early Friday morning hit-and-run crash on I-95 in Needham that claimed the life of a pedestrian.Police identified the victim as a man from Canton and said he was struck on I-95 South but did not say why, or where, he was on walking on the highway at the time of the crash.

Three separate shootings took place Sunday night on the Dan Ryan Expressway, Illinois State Police said.Shots first broke out around 7 p.m. on the interstate's northbound lane near 79th Street in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, state police said.A driver was shot.He drove himself to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and a passenger in the car was not injured, police said.

Crime The 22-month-old was in the back seat of a Honda Pilot that was reportedly stolen.Toddler Emma Buth, who had been reported missing Sunday night, was safely dropped off at Lawrence General Hospital just under two hours later, according to Massachusetts State Police.Lawrence police reported around 11:30 p.m. that there were two suspects in the vehicle, a 33-year-old male from Methuen and a 29-year-old female from Haverhill, both of which are in custody.

This photo provided by Louisiana State Police shows police body cam video of Shreveport Police Officer Alexander Tyler after shooting Alonzo Bagley on Feb. 3, in Shreveport, La.Louisiana State Police via AP BATON ROUGE, La.A white Louisiana police officer was arrested Thursday for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man who was trying to flee police responding to a domestic disturbance call earlier this month, authorities said.

Oak Lawn denies police officers pummeled a teen following an arrest last July in which video provided by police as well as video taken by witnesses show officers repeatedly punching the youth as he was pinned down on a village street.Responding to a federal lawsuit filed last summer by the Bridgeview teen, Oak Lawn is asking a judge to dismiss the complaint, although talks aimed at settling the lawsuit are underway.

Local Officials are calling Daniel Cambrourelis-Haskins' death an "isolated incident."A missing 19-year-old from Hopkinton was found dead in a wooded area of Milford on Tuesday, the Worcester County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday evening.Milford police previously asked for the public's help finding Daniel Cambrourelis-Haskins.

A 25-year-old hiker from California was found dead after falling from a rocky bluff along the Oregon coast and being swept into the ocean over the weekend, authorities said.Henry Minh Hoang, of West Covina, California, was hiking beyond a safety fence in an area known as the punch bowl in the Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area when he slipped and fell about 20 feet to the water's edge, Oregon State Police said in a news release.

The family of an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by a Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the officer.The lawsuit filed Saturday in the Western District of Louisiana alleges the officer violated Alonzo Bagley's Fourth Amendment rights.Bagley, 43, was shot and killed earlier this month after police responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex, Louisiana State Police said in a statement.

Members of the Illinois State Police have collected information about businesses owned by Ald.Roudell Kirkwood, 4th Ward, and about the potential theft of government funds, wire fraud, official misconduct and forgery related to the city of Waukegan, court records show.Representatives of the state police and the Lake County state's attorney's office appeared at Waukegan City Hall Thursday with a search warrant seeking potential evidence of those crimes and left with documents and other items, according to officials and court records.

Politics "Public service was his passion, and he was always advocating on behalf of the people of his hometown."HARTFORD, Conn.(AP) - A Connecticut state representative, considered a rising political star, was killed when a wrong-way driver crashed head-on into his vehicle early Thursday morning as he returned home from the governor's inauguration ball, state police said.

An outdoorsman with a carry-on bag including throwing knives and fire starters was stopped by Transportation Security Officers at Boston Logan International Airport last month after he forgot to remove the equipment from his bag, according to a spokesman for TSA New England.The incident took place Dec. 5 at a JetBlue checkpoint, TSA spokesman Daniel Velez confirmed in an email to Boston.com.

BOSTON (AP) - A retired Massachusetts State Police detective captain was indicted Thursday for allegedly possessing child pornography.Francis Hart, 62, of Amherst, was indicted on one count of dissemination of child pornography and seven counts of possession of child pornography, state Attorney General Maura Healey's office said.

An SUV hit a State Police cruiser Monday afternoon on I-495 in Hopkinton, injuring both a trooper and police K9.State Police spokesperson David Procopio said in a press release that the cruiser was hit by a 2020 Subaru Forester at 1:44 p.m. while parked in the breakdown lane.The trooper, a 37-year-old man, was taken to UMass Medical Center in Worcester where he is being observed overnight, Procopio said.