CHICAGO — The family of a man shot dead by an immigration enforcement agent in the Chicago area last year moved to sue the government on Thursday for a shooting they allege was unlawful and could have been prevented, according to attorneys for the family. Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Mexican national who had lived
A father and son who worked at a Mississippi smoke shop have been arrested and charged in connection with the death of at least one university student who died from a suspected overdose of kratom, sometimes called “gas station heroin” in the US. The pair worked at a shop that allegedly sold derivatives of the
Before Carl Akeley came along, natural history museums were somewhat sedate affairs. “You would have, let’s say, the birds of a certain region, all lined up in stiff poses,” says Mark Alvey, who recently retired as a researcher for Chicago’s Field Museum. This sort of taxidermy was purely practical, he explains. “It was for education,
In “The Woodworm” (“El Corquim”), the feature debut of Laura Obradors, a teenage girl’s search for an identity of her own runs up against the authority of her father, a successful artist in creative crisis. Developed through Madrid’s ECAM Incubator, the project examines the power exercised inside a family and the artistic prestige that can
Foster was allowed to return to the UK for his child’s funeral, on condition that he flew back to Cyprus last week for the plea hearing to take place. His lawyer, Alexandros Alexandrou, said he would ask the court to lift travel restrictions so that his client can return to the UK to be with
Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy, has told CBS programme 60 Minutes that he speaks to his three deceased children “all the time”. Patrick is the father of the three children Lindsay is accused of killing in January 2023. Her first-degree murder trial ended in a mistrial a few weeks ago. Dr Rachel Danis,
