Tobacco shop, wholesaler sue county over new tax

A Chicago tobacco shop as well as a local wholesaler are trying to stamp out a new Cook County tax on cigars, snuff and loose tobacco, saying the tax language on the books is so “unconstitutionally vague” that “you’d have to hire a fortune teller” …Read More

• Asian refugee has no right to son she abandoned, judge rules

  A DuPage County judge has formally severed the legal rights of an Asian refugee to the son she abandoned as a newborn on the ground outside her Wheaton apartment. The ruling by Judge Robert Anderson terminates the parental rights of 27-year-old Nunu Sung to the now 2½-year-old boy she left under bushes in 2009 after secretly giving birth to him.

• Man who cut baby from mother’s womb can argue he didn’t get fair trial

  Fedell Caffey, the man who cut a baby from his mother’s womb in 1995, hideously killing her and two of her children, will get a chance to argue that he was denied a fair trial, a federal judge has ruled.

• Dad: Burglars stole van used for disabled teen

  Callous burglars allegedly tortured a 70-year-old man with a red-hot spoon and stole the van he uses to transport his disabled son. BT Gregory says he had popped out to get his 17-year-old son a snack from a nearby hot dog stand Friday afternoon when …Read More