Choking

A Los Angeles law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that various dairy companies and trade groups slaughtered more than half a million cows to inflate the price of milk. More than 1.7 million toy workshop and tool sets from toymaker Little...

A 7th grader from Romeoville who saved his classmate’s life was honored with a certificate during Monday’s Valley View school board meeting. Trey Harbert, a …...

SO YOU KNOW Elizabeth Taylor’s star blazed brightly in Danville during the summer of 1956, when she came to town with fellow stars Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin and Rod Taylor for the filming of the Civil War epic “Raintree...

Michelle Babcock is accustomed to dealing with lots and lots of loud kids. "They want to tell you everything about their day," said Babcock. Babcock is a bus driver for Comstock Park Schools and typically picks up and drops off about 60 kids from...

Editor’s Note: Information for this story was provided by Andrew Denney of the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Mo. Former Columbia, Mo., police officer Steven Rios, convicted of murder in 2008 in the death of college student Jesse Valencia of...

As a media center and discipline room assistant at Charlevoix Middle School, Cindy Whitley has many responsibilities, but after last week she can add one more to her list of duties: Lifesaver. On Friday, March 4, Whitley, a 16-year veteran of...

It was about 3 a.m. Sunday when Boyle County Deputy Sheriff Jeff Stith saved Danville police officer Daniel Grigsby’s life. At least, that’s one way of looking at it. “Saving his life might be dramatizing it a bit,” Stith says with...

A Calumet Park police officer tripped and choked a 16-year-old boy during an arrest last year, then covered it up by falsifying police reports, a Cook County prosecutor said in court today. Officer Lynell Porch, 39, was charged with aggravated battery,...

On the first day of puppy class, six over-excited balls of fur drag their owners into the training studio. And because their owners happily follow, the puppies all get lots of positive reinforcement for pulling. You never thought of it that way, did you?...

TV shots captured Grantham, Georgia's defensive coordinator, with one hand on his throat as Henry lined up for a field goal that gave the Gators' 34-31 victory Saturday. Replays show Grantham making a choke sign four times during a Georgia timeout...

After two weeks in Bristol Hospital's intensive care unit, a shaky but determined Mayor Art Ward went home Monday with a doctor's pronouncement that he could be back to work in January. In the hospital lobby, Ward spoke briefly from a wheelchair,...