Kankakee received a bleak distinction when a recent CBS News report — that many saw published on Yahoo! — ranked it the city least likely in the nation to rebound from a slumping real estate market.
Home values in Kankakee have plunged more than 39 percent since 2008, and the likelihood of them ever fully rebounding are not good, according to data compiled for the national news network.Numbers provided by a local elators group, however, are much different and show an overall drop of only about 6 percent.Without listing specific sale prices, the national report indicates that the 39.2 percent drop of the average sale price of a Kankakee home is the sharpest decline of any city in the country."Unless the city sees a serious economic turnaround, it will be nearly impossible to recover that 39 percent drop in home values," the report concluded.
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Friday, 27 September 2013
Toxicology report indicates injuries killed Kaelynn Fay
Kaelynn Fay died from the injuries she suffered in a tragic accident that took place on the night of July 18.
Toxicology tests showed no signs of drugs or alcohol in her system, Kankakee County Coroner Robert Gessner said Tuesday.
Fay, 18, and a passenger were driving south on Warner Bridge Road north of Illinois Route 102 when she swerved to avoid a construction barrel lying in the middle of the road. Her car rolled over but the pair were able to escape the wreckage.
A short time later, a second car swerved to avoid the barrel, but avoided a rollover. After that, Fay apparently tried to remove the barrel and was struck and killed by a third car while standing near the shoulder of the road.
The crash has been under reconstruction by police. The status of the investigation was unclear as of this morning.
Monday, 2 September 2013
Report: NSA spied on Brazilian, Mexican presidents
RIO DE JANEIRO The National Security Agency's spy program targeted the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, and in the case of Mexico's leader accessed the content of emails before he was elected, the U.S. journalist who obtained secret documents from NSA leaker Edward Snowden said Sunday.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, told Globo's news program "Fantastico" that a document dated June 2012 shows that Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's emails were being read. The document's date is a month before Pena Nieto was elected.
Report: Secret budget cited 4,000 NSA leaksPartner of journalist at center of NSA leak detainedLeaked spy budget's three most revealing partsThe document Greenwald based the report on includes communications from Pena Nieto indicating who he would like to name to some Cabinet posts among other information. It's not clear if the spying continues.
As for Brazil's leader, the June 2012 document "doesn't include any of Dilma's specific intercepted messages, the way it does for Nieto," Greenwald told The Associated Press in an email. "But it is clear in several ways that her communications were intercepted, including the use of DNI Presenter, which is a program used by NSA to open and read emails and online chats."
Calls to Rousseff's office and a spokeswoman were not answered. Messages sent to a spokesman for Nena Pieto weren't immediately returned.
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"This is completely outside the standard of confidence expected of a strategic partnership, as the U.S. and Brazil have," he added.
In July, Greenwald co-wrote articles in O Globo that said documents leaked by Snowden indicate Brazil was the largest target in Latin America for the NSA program, which collected data on billions of emails and calls flowing through Brazil.
The Brazilian government denounced the NSA activities outlined in the earlier reports.
Greenwald reported then that the NSA collected the data through an undefined association between U.S. and Brazilian telecommunications companies. He said he could not verify which Brazilian companies were involved or if they were aware their links were being used to collect the data.
Greenwald began writing stories based on material leaked by Snowden in May, mostly for the Guardian newspaper in Britain.
Before news of the NSA program broke, the White House announced that Rousseff would be honored with a state dinner in October during a trip to the U.S., the only such full state dinner scheduled this year for a foreign leader. The move highlighted the U.S. desire to build on improved relations since Rousseff took the presidency on Jan. 1, 2011.
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Obama administration set to release Syria intel report
Updated 5:20 a.m. ET Aug. 30, 2013
WASHINGTON
The administration will release on Friday a declassified version of its intelligence report on last week's purported Syria chemical weapons attack, a senior administration official told CBS News late Thursday.
The official also said the administration would go public with its legal justification for taking military action against the Syrian regime if and when President Obama orders a strike.
Mr. Obama might do so even though it would have to come without the backing of Washington's closest ally, the White House has indicated to CBS News.
Hopes that Britain would join any U.S. military action were dashed late Thursday when Prime Minister David Cameron lost a non-binding vote in the House of Commons to endorse that policy -- a stunning rebuke.
The administration expects to have rhetorical support from many nations but no longer considers British military participation vital, feeling it is preferable, but not necessary. "We don't have to wait for them," a senior administration official told CBS News. "We want to be helpful, but we'll act on our own decision-making."
14 PhotosBritish reticence places the Obama White House in an awkward position, aides conceded. It must now decide whether to carry out a military strike to uphold an international norm against chemical weapons use that even America's staunchest ally is unwilling to support.
Top officials said Mr. Obama's intent to carry out a limited attack -- "a shot across the bow" in the president's words -- means broad international support and congressional authorization are preferred but not necessary. The U.S. will seek as many allies as it can and consult regularly with members of Congress but will act rapidly, aides said, to drive home the point that the mass use of chemical weapons will always be punished.
"The use of weapons of mass destruction is a threat to our interests because it makes a mockery of international rules of the road that matter," a senior official said. "This isn't Iraq where we were trying to prove the existence of weapons to launch an open-ended ground invasion. This is chemical weapons use on a mass scale that we are considering a limited, targeted response to."
There is also a signal intended in the limited scope of the military attack on Syria, the senior official said.
"It's a statement of U.S. policy that frankly sends a message to the international community that we're not going whole hog here," the senior official said. "Even limited U.S. action has a big impact. We're not going to take Assad out. But anything we do is going to degrade him in a way that nothing the opposition does."
Earlier, the White House pushed back on skepticism about potential U.S. military action in Syria, saying the evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians is "very convincing" - and that the use of chemical weapons is a violation of a "critically important international norm" that must carry with it serious consequences.
Still, White House spokesman Josh Earnest emphasized that Mr. Obama is "not contemplating an open-ended military action," describing the responses under consideration as "very discrete and limited" in their scope.
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On Thursday evening, the administration held a conference call for members of Congress to lay out the unclassified intelligence report about chemical weapons use in Syria.
Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a statement: "On the call, I agreed with Speaker Boehner and other Members who stated that there needs to be more consultation with all Members of Congress and additional transparency into the decision making process and timing, and that the case needs to be made to the American people.
"It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security. We must be clear that the United States rejects the use of chemical weapons by Assad or any other regime."
"Tonight the Administration informed us that they have a 'broad range of options' for Syria but failed to layout a single option," said Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe in a statement. "They also did not provide a timeline, a strategy for Syria and the Middle East, or a plan for the funds to execute such an option. Several members agreed with me that whatever is decided upon, it's going to take military resources that are at decreased readiness levels due to a lack of funding."
The administration expects to have rhetorical support from many nations because it no longer considers British military participation vital. It is preferable, but not necessary. "We don't have to wait for them," a senior administration official told CBS News. "We want to be helpful, but we'll act on our own decision-making."
British reticence places the Obama White House in an awkward position, aides conceded. It must now decide whether to carry out a military strike to uphold an international norm against chemical weapons use that even America's staunchest ally, Great Britain, is unwilling to support.
Top officials said Mr. Obama's intent to carry out a limited attack - "a shot across the bow" in the president's words - means broad international support and congressional authorization are preferred but not necessary. The U.S. will seek as many allies as it can and consult regularly with members of Congress but will act rapidly, aides said, to drive home the point that the mass use of chemical weapons will always be punished.
"The use of weapons of mass destruction is a threat to our interests because it makes a mockery of international rules of the road that matter," a senior official said. "This isn't Iraq where we were trying to prove the existence of weapons to launch an open-ended ground invasion. This is chemical weapons use on a mass scale that we are considering a limited, targeted response to."
There is also a signal intended in the limited scope of the military attack on Syria, the senior official said.
"It's a statement of U.S. policy that frankly sends a message to the international community that we're not going whole hog here," the senior official said. "Even limited U.S. action has a big impact. We're not going to take Assad out. But anything we do is going to degrade him in a way that nothing the opposition does."
Meanwhile, Earnest emphasized, as Mr. Obama did during an interview on Wednesday with PBS, that the administration has reached no final conclusion on the question of military action in Syria.
"I have not made a decision" on Syria, the president explained on Wednesday, but he said his administration has "concluded" that the Assad regime was responsible for the chemical weapons attack.
Earnest also rejected comparisons between the debate over intervention in Syria and an earlier debate about intervention in Iraq, which was attended by claims of chemical weapons possession on the part of the Iraqi regime that were proven untrue only after the U.S. had dissolved the rule of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "We're not talking about regime change here," he said. "We're talking about enforcing a critically important international norm."
"There is not a military solution to the broader conflict that is taking place in Syria," Earnest said.
Pressed on reports that suggest some level of uncertainty about who deployed the chemical weapons, Earnest brandished on-the-record statements from the president, Secretary of State John Kerry, and members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that betrayed no doubt that the regime is culpable for the August 21 use of chemical weapons that left thousands of civilians dead.
"We already know from a previous intelligence assessment that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons against civilians in Syria. We know that the Assad regime maintains stockpiles of chemical weapons in Syria," he said. "We also know that it is the regime alone that has the capability to use the chemical weapons that were used...in the attacks that we saw on August 21st. We also know that the Assad regime was engaged in a military campaign targeting the specific regions where this chemical attack occurred."
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Video: Watch: CBS News original Special Report coverage of the March on Washington
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Saturday, 17 August 2013
Video: 8/16: Bloody confrontation in Egypt, as protesters refuse to relent; Alex Rodriguez denies document leak report
8/16: Bloody confrontation in Egypt, as protesters refuse to relent; Alex Rodriguez denies document leak report 20:55 August 16, 2013 8/16: Bloody confrontation in Egypt, as protesters refuse to relent; Alex Rodriguez denies document leak reportTwo days after the Egyptian army and police broke up sit-ins of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, protesters were out in force Friday; and, a "60 Minutes" investigation found that in February, members Alex Rodriguez's inner circle leaked names of other players suspected of using performance enhancing drugs.Video: 8/16: Bloody confrontation in Egypt, as protesters refuse to relent; Alex Rodriguez denies document leak report
8/16: Bloody confrontation in Egypt, as protesters refuse to relent; Alex Rodriguez denies document leak report 20:55 August 16, 2013 8/16: Bloody confrontation in Egypt, as protesters refuse to relent; Alex Rodriguez denies document leak reportTwo days after the Egyptian army and police broke up sit-ins of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, protesters were out in force Friday; and, a "60 Minutes" investigation found that in February, members Alex Rodriguez's inner circle leaked names of other players suspected of using performance enhancing drugs.Thursday, 15 August 2013
FBI, police raid Howell home, report says
HOWELL — One person was arrested and others were taken into police custody after the FBI raided a home in Howell Friday morning, News 12 reported.
The FBI raid was aided by Howell police officers and the Monmouth County Prosecutor?s office as part of a weapons and drug investigation, according to the report.
In addition to the arrest, boxes and a large bird were removed from the home on Old Tavern Road, according to the report.
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