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CHICAGO - Tension on the Chicago's Southwest Side is escalating ahead of a community meeting scheduled for Tuesday night over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to erect winterized tents to house migrants in an empty parking lot in Brighton Park as a scuffle between police and protesters broke out early Tuesday morning. According to the Chicago Fire Department, a woman was taken to the hospital with a minor ankle injury after police clashed with protesters who attempted to block the entrance to the site at 38th Street and California Avenue, where city workers are assessing the viability of a tent ci......

Three eyewitnesses identified Zeron Moody as one of two shooters who opened fire in a neighborhood park and killed 19-year-old Fontaine Sanders. Two of those people named Terreon Gathings as the other gunman. And there was a security video, Facebook postings and a fingerprint linking Moody to the stolen car used in the shooting to back up their testimony. Yet the Cook County state’s attorney’s office recently dropped murder charges against Moody and Gathings, allowing them both to plead guilty to aggravated battery with a firearm instead. The shooters had each faced up to 66 years in prison fo......

Two historic giant sequoias were damaged in a prescribed burn last fall at Calaveras Big Trees State Park — and one of them may not survive, park officials and tree enthusiasts agree. The trees, known as The Orphans, are estimated to be at least 500 years old, with one possibly twice that age, said John Buckley, executive director of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center. The older of the two monarch sequoias, Buckley said after visiting the burn site, “has a high risk of dying.” He added, “One of the trees has a fairly high chance of survival because it still has green canopy crown......

NEW YORK — It’s a sad day to be Happy. New York’s top court ruled Tuesday that an elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy is “not a person” and therefore lacks the human right to be released from custody at the Bronx Zoo. The judges at the state Court of Appeals ruled five against two in favor of continued captivity for Happy. The 8,500-pound Asian elephant, the court wrote, is “a nonhuman animal who is not a ‘person’ subjected to illegal detention.” The court found that Happy, as a non-human animal, is not entitled to “habeas corpus,” a legal concept which allows humans to claim unlawful detent......

SEATTLE — The city of Seattle cleared two homeless encampments within a few blocks of the Westin Seattle this week in anticipation of President Joe Biden's visit. Biden visited Seattle on Earth Day, in part to sign an executive order at Seward Park aimed at protecting old-growth forests from the ravages of wildfires. He also touched on ever-rising health care and prescription drug costs as a driver of booming inflation in a speech at Green River College in Auburn. His visit caused traffic snarls around the county and large gatherings of people who wanted to see or protest the president. It als......

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- They strut through grassy knolls, preen their feathers and bathe in Central Park’s water fountain, all while leaving behind piles of poop – some 176 pounds’ worth a day, to be exact. And no matter what Santa Clara has tried to do to fend off the hundreds of Canada geese that habitually invade the sprawling park’s lake area, nothing seems to work. The city has blared panicked geese noises and set up coyote decoys, all to no avail, according to Parks Director James Teixeira. “The geese have become accustomed to that almost immediately,” he explained. And although there’s a......