Bolingbrook News

A southwest suburban who allegedly shot another man in the face during an argument at a Denny's restaurant has been charged with murder.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 11:59 am US/Central BOLINGBROOK, Ill. A man is hospitalized Thursday after being shot in the face and wounded at a Denny's restaurant in Bolingbrook.

Police say two armed bandits robbed a grocery store Monday evening. Deputy Chief Mike Trafton said it was 5:20 p.m. when the robbers came into Mitchell's Food Mart, 1300 Raynor Ave.

A diabetic driver touched off a Tuesday afternoon wreck that sent at least five people to area hospitals.

On Monday night, 40 firefighters from Lemont, Plainfield, Homer, Lockport, Bolingbrook and Westmont were still fighting a fire that started when a scrap metal pile ignited Monday night.

To the sweet sounds of Jimi Hendrix' version of the Star Spangled Banner, hundreds poured into the Dames Funeral Home in Joliet, Illinois to pay their final respects to 22 year-old U.S. Army Private First Class Michael Pearson Saturday.

From parking meters, now to the city's water system, Mayor Daley says any part of city government is up for grabs if the price is right.

Thursday brought a somber homecoming for a local soldier who was killed in the Fort Hood shooting spree.

The plaintive wail of bagpipers playing "Amazing Grace" at dusk and a lone Army bugler's haunting rendition of taps gave Pfc.

A spectacular light show helped kick off the holiday season in Bolingbrook Saturday.

A giant American flag was stretched between two cranes as mourners filed into a funeral home to say goodbye to a suburban Chicago soldier who was killed at Fort Hood earlier this month.

The body of a 21-year-old Illinois soldier killed in last week's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, has arrived back in his hometown.

CHICAGO a * A local hero killed in the massacre at Fort Hood is now back in Chicago.

A motorcade with the body of slain Army Pfc. Michael Pearson, one of 13 soldiers killed in the Fort Hood rampage, left Midway Airport shortly before 10:40 a.m. A crowd of veterans, firefighters and Chicago police officers were on hand for the arrival Pearson's casket on a military transport.

Four men - three from Bolingbrook - and one juvenile were arrested Sunday after allegedly trying to steal three Wii video game systems from a Romeoville Target store, police officials said.

And away Wii go ... until the cops showed up. Four men and one juvenile were arrested Sunday after allegedly trying to run out the door with video game systems.

A local man fled for his life when a bandit dressed all in black brandished a pistol and demanded his money Saturday night.

Founders Day/Gold Star Scholarship banquet: 6 p.m. Nov. 28, Holiday Inn, 411 S. Larkin Ave.

Two Chicago natives are among those killed when Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a rampage at the large Texas Army base, killing 13 and wounding 31.

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