Frank Main
Staff reporter
Frank Main began his newspaper career in 1987 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in Louisiana and Kentucky, covering local politics and crime. He was on the ground for Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, the Bosnia conflict, the first Gulf War and the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York. In 2011, Main, another reporter and a photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for their stories in the Sun-Times about a ‘no-snitch code’ among Chicago’s victims of gun violence. For that project, Main spent six months embedded with homicide detectives. He’s a graduate of Emory University and Northwestern University’s graduate journalism program and teaches journalism at Loyola University.
One of the notorious Flores twins is to lead a seminar at the Kane County sheriff’s office — “a rare chance for us to get into the mind of the people we are trying to find,” an official says.
Cleveland “Christopher” Bynum says he was coerced into confessing to the killings in Gary. There was little evidence beside a kid who overheard a man he identified as “Chris.” Years later, another “Chris” left a confession after his death.
Jiménez ganó un veredicto de $25 millones cuando tenía 13 años por un asesinato que no cometió, y luego entregó parte del dinero a su pandilla. Después de su sentencia de 12 años, “creo que quiere llevar una vida normal”, dice su abogado.
Jimenez won a $25 million wrongful-conviction verdict for a killing when he was 13, then lavished cash on his gang. After his 12-year term, “I think he wants to lead a normal life,” his lawyer says.
Interim Cook County Inspector General Steven Cyranoski says, over the past year, 25 county workers were found to have ripped off the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
A letter from the city’s top police oversight official also raises questions of whether the officers snatched up guns, drugs and cash without turning in the evidence.
Las autoridades no dijeron si a algún agente le habían revocado sus poderes policiales o si las acusaciones que implican a la adolescente habían sido entregadas a la fiscalía.
Officials wouldn’t say whether any officers had been stripped of police powers or if accusations involving the teenager had been turned over to prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge John Kness, a Trump appointee, told a man he was sentencing” “I feel in danger every single day when I drive on the expressway ... because of people like you who have absolutely no respect for the law.”