Com ingressos esgotados em menos de 24 horas e com a plateia totalmente lotada, a Orquestra Filarmônica de Israel, uma das maiores e mais prestigiadas orquestras do mundo, que em 2016 completou 80 anos, assim como seu aclamado regente, o Maestro Read more » »

CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County officials say they expect to issue the 10,000th marriage license to a same-sex couple this week.Cook County Clerk David Orr held a news conference Monday morning along with state lawmakers and civil right groups to mark the milestone. Read more » »

CHICAGO (AP) — Three Illinois communities will receive nearly $300,000 in federal grants to help law enforcement and corrections officers.U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced Monday that the cities of Rockford, Aurora and Decatur will get funds from the Department of Justice. Read more » »

A LeClaire police investigation has led to an arrest on sexual exploitation charges.On Jan. 23, LeClaire police received a complaint from a mother about her 17-year-old child having inappropriate sexual contact with an adult, according to a police news release. Read more » »

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia sheriff’s department has named a suspect who was fatally shot by deputies while they attempted to serve an arrest warrant.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that 82-year-old Darrel K. Hetrick was shot at his Morgantown home. Read more » »

CHICAGO (AP) — A 25-year-old man wounded last week in a Chicago taxi during a confrontation with Illinois State Police has been charged.Authorities on Monday said Jonathan McIntosh was charged with aggravated assault to an officer and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.McIntosh is in custody at a hospital where he was treated for gunshot wounds. Read more » »

A Pleasant Valley School District bus was hit by a dump truck Monday afternoon in Bettendorf.According to city public information officer Lauran Haldeman, police were called at 3: 39 p.m. Monday to Middle Road and Indiana Avenue, where a dump truck turning a corner hit a Pleasant Valley school bus. Read more » »

CHICAGO (AP) — The fatal shooting of NBA star Dwyane Wade’s cousin in Chicago is part of a sharp uptick in gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city this year. Among the other innocent people caught in crossfire have been young children playing outside and a father paying bills at his kitchen table. Read more » »

A Davenport man is accused of firing a pistol in his apartment to get quarreling people to leave.Phillip Ray Byers Jr., 27, of 1000 Blythwood Place, is charged with felony intimidation with a dangerous weapon and reckless use of firearm, a misdemeanor, according to Davenport police and Scott County Jail records.Mr. Read more » »

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi authorities say a train hit an all-terrain vehicle as the driver attempted to wrest a stuck tire from the tracks, killing a female passenger. Read more » »