he has been sitting in jail for nearly five years charged with killing his family but an investigator is raising doubts about the evidence against christopher vaughn some surprising developments in that murder case in state police investigator said that the oswego man accused of killing his family may not be the killer after all prosecutors say that he shot his wife and three children and their bodies were found in the family van but a private investigator working on

his defense says that a state police sergeant testified that evidence is bearing that the wife may have shot herself after shooting him and the children the private investigators information he maintains was floated with inaccuracies and the president said at the white house this morning that americans ought to do some soul- searching over the death of trade on martin trayvon martin >>this is a tragedy i can only imagine what these parents are going through ... and when i think about this boy i think about my own kids. >>the president added that if he had a son he would look like trayvon martin

reporter andy rose has more on this controversial shooting the rallying cry continues in the trayvon martin case. neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman fatally shot the teen last month and sanford florida and what he claims was self-defense >>there have been rallies around the country calling for the arrest of george zimmerman a protest was staged at a high school in miami where students walked out on their lunch break and the sanford police chief is stepping down temporarily >>it's apparent that my involvement is overshadowing the process of >>the governor is assigning a special attorney to investigate

meanwhile one of zimmerman snipersneighbors described him as a good fellow >>the children were well behaved they did not runaround ... there were active in the catholic church bowl family >>there will beat a protest march in chicago today in honor of trayvon martin the first will begin at 3:00 in millennium park and had to state and to lake streets the return march will take place at 7:00 this evening the pastor of the chicago st. sabina church father michael pfleger "r" is calling

on other churches to remember trayvon martin plans to place a hooded sweatshirt a can of iced tea and a bag of skittles candy at his altar because that is what trayvon martin was wearing and carrying when he was shot and the family wants answers after a woman was shot and killed by an off-duty chicago police officer ... the woman was shot in the head and died yesterday officer claims that he announced that he was a police officer and the man pulled out a gun that's when the officer fired boyd's friend antonio cross was also shot cross says that the officer opened fire on them he said there was no gun and only a cellular phone >>my sister was taken away from me >>cross has been charged with aggravated assault and

investigation is under way into whether or not that lethal force was justified a chicago police officer shot a man carrying a sawed off shotgun in the far south side it happened last night near 105th street and green police reportedly spotted two men covering their faces and walking around with guns police say one man pointed a shotgun at them that prompted the officer shooting at man twice the second man was also arrested bond has been denied for the man charged with the attempted murder of a chicago police officer police say that paris.sadler opened fire on an officer del pearson on monday night near 85th and south kingston pearson was responding to a curfew violation call when sadler reportedly tried to run away office appears in a still recovering with a bullet still lodged near his spine some nuns in stone parker

getting a lot of support in their fight against a strip club that is opening next to their retirement home this club called get it opens april 1st the missionary sisters of st. charles want the village to revoke the club's permanent the owners of that club said that it will create jobs for wait staff parking lot attendants and strippers if you are watching our 8:00 morning show you saw the sky camera following this little dogs stranded on the stevenson expressway between cicero and central >>he is a healthy black cocker spaniel he's just very wet and very shaken the dog somehow manage to get into the median separating the two directions of traffic state police trailed the dog keeping

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including nine children-is expected to be charged with murder and other crimes today. robert bales is being held in solitary confinement at a military detention center in leavenworth kansas. authorities

say that he went on a shooting rampage in kantar province last week. his attorney said that his client has no memory of these shootings. robert bales has served for different tours of combat duty and is expected to claim that he suffers from post- traumatic stress disorder legal proceedings are expected to take place at his home base near to washington >>we now know the official cause of death for the pop singer whitney houston who was found dead in a bathtub in a hotel in february. the l.a. county coroner's office has determined that whitney houston accidentally drowned they also say that she had cocaine in her body at the time of her death and had heart damage from years of cocaine abuse they believe that she had a heart attack before she drowned several other drugs were also found in her body including marijuana xanax and benadryl her death has been ruled an accident whitney

houston was 48 years old >>pope benedict the 16th travels to mexico today. he is hoping to bring a message of peace and hope to make country under siege by drug violence about 300,000 people are expected to attend sunday mass celebrated by the pope in a central region of mexico but the highlight of this trip may be a two day visit to cuba beginning monday that trip is taking place just weeks before the pope's 85th birthday he will take this opportunity to promote the face any deeply catholic nation which imprisoned priests and confiscated church property under the communist rule under fidel castro >>the ship at the center of one of the worst oil spills in united states history is sold for scrap the vessel once known as the exxon valdez was sold for about $16 million back in 1989

that ship ran into rocks in the prince william sound up in alaska dumping 11 million gal. of oil into that water the spill killed more than 36,000 seabirds and damaged 700 mi. of coastline exxon mobil has spent roughly $4 billion to clean up that spill and is still facing lawsuits the boom town mystery has been solved. scientists say that they have figured out what caused all of that strange booming and rumbling noise that has rattled a town in northern wisconsin people in clintonville complained about the noises on tuesday and the u.s. geological survey went to work discovering that the area had a small 1.5 milk magnitude earthquake plus several aftershocks since wisconsin does not get in here earthquakes of any magnitude it does not have much earthquake monitoring

with today's business headlines ... chicago is a hot spot with gas prices ... but things may decline in may. $5 gasoline is most likely not in the cards according to some experts ... the demand will diminish if the prices flat note analysts say not to count on the illinois housing market to rebound any time soon ... if you hand over the deed to bankamerica in new york arizona or nevada a pilot program will

take the deeds of homeowners that are under water and rent the property back to them for a limited pilot program unemployment rates went up slightly from december to january and now we are again at 9.6% new home sales dropped in february for a second month ... it's a sign that housing is stuck in neutral >>we hear there is an update from facebook on that employment debate ... >>that is a privacy violation

... employers will be sued if they try to do something like that ... so certain applications will be turned down if the company sees evidence of companies trying to get around certain privacy rules the company that makes etch a sketch ohio art saw its stock price triple yesterday and is sending a big box of that toy to all of the presidential campaigns as a thank-you for the great publicity this week this all became about because of a remark by a mitt romney campaign strategist when asked about the politics know of his candidate versus politics and

views back in november he likened his candidate to that famous tory saying that you can kind of shake it up and we began all over again democrats called it evidence that mitt romney is a flip- floping candidate willing to shift his positions for political gain beginning sunday illinois residents will be able to test their lot from the comfort of their own homes illinois will become the first day to sell lottery tickets online the lottery officials say they hope that the new strategy will increase ticket purchases the hunger games fans do not mind staying up late to catch the midnight premier of the movie this morning those fans pickedpacked theaters dean richards gave his review in

the previous hour :the success of this megahit something for everyone book are its many layers: the exciting action, the love story the social and political statement... the movie captures most of it in this world of the future, where the government requires each district of the country to offer up two teenagers for a televised gladiator like fight to the death. jennifer lawrence shines as this joan of arc character fighting, but one with a heart of gold in the sense that decency and fairness are lacking in this self-centered society. it's an effective action film about death and survival. most of the blood and gore is implied and not seen. that enables the pg-13 rating. there is enough of a love story

for the preteen viewer, but not so much as to make the grown- ups nauseous. for them there is the story of what society could become when the government is out of control and children are slaughtered for the amusement of the wealthy, in this reality show world of voyeurism and excess. it is a well told, layered film, with great performances from these colorful characters. its only fault is-- at two hours and 22 minutes, the movie is longer than it needs to be and is sometimes drags trying to include too many details from the book. it is a solid start however, for this upcoming trilogy. my great is a dean's list b +. you can take a look at my chicago exclusive interviews with the cast of the hunger games on my page of the web site wgntv.com/dean's list. and you can get my weekly dean's list review grades, just text the word dean to 97999. have a great weekend. dean richards wgn news. the success of this megahit, coming up next a familiar sign

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219 year-old students have been found dead in to separate campus dormitories at illinois state univ. the first 19 year-old john c. stevens from wilmettte was discovered inside hewitt hall around midnight the second 19 year-old allison zak of schaumburg was found inside manchester hall around 930 last night autopsies will be performed today to find out the cause of death school leaders say that these are not related they also don't suspect foul

play or any criminal activity it part of the wrigley field experience and a reminder of the team's long running futility may be gone this season ... the new owner of a building behind the right-field bleachers it says that he may take down part of the "eamus catuli" sign that's latin for let's go cubs below that are the number signaling how long it has been since the cubs won a division pennant and world series the owner said he wants to get fan feedback before making that decision about the sign mayor emanuel is expected to respond to complaints from demonstrators to plan to come into chicago during the nato summit julian crews is live on the southwest side with more on the battle for a permit to protest >>the date was changed and then the route needs to be changed not the destination ... and i don't think it is appropriate for me to have to say anymore

he is not saying much but it doesn't sound that the mayor is willing to budge when it comes to the key sticking point ... at a press conference the mayor said that the city will observe protesters first amendment rights but the route must change ... organizers will appeal to the city protesters rejected a compromise plan offered by the city because the activists say it will reduce public visibility and their right to get within sight or sound of a comicmccormick place ... police superintendent jerry mccarthy said there's a way to resolve it: >>we believe that we will be able to protect the first amendment rights of those people who want to be here to protest and at the same time be able to

prevent any violence or property damage >>protesters are not happy about this new route the city hall hearing is set for this tuesday if a compromise is not reach these protesters have made it clear they will take it all with a court >>tom skilling will be back with the weekend forecast [ host ] mary switched to allstate and saved $326.00 on her car insurance. john switched and saved $263.00! drivers who switched to allstate saved an average of $336 a year on car insurance. and allstate will send you two bonus checks a year every year you stay accident free with our safe driving bonus. when i switched to allstate my savings amounted to $436 a year. when i switched

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drain in one month is coming into this area there are some lower clouds following the cooler air coming in off the lake ... there will be some fog particularly by the lakeside. we have some colder air coming and. it will be in the '60s. if we get any sunbreaks that will cause the air to produce some fast-moving wind gusts and thunderstorms. we have some moisture coming

into this area producing that fog limiting visibility just about everywhere except when you moved inland we had days historic warm spell eight days at 80 degrees. very unusual it is currently 62 degrees in chicago we hit a record high yesterday as did so many other cities here in north america. no records today however that warm air is collapsing. but we are well above normal for this time of year but we have dropped 18 degrees since yesterday at this

time humidity is 94% ... that is critical. as that wind comes off of that 40 degree lake water and hits the dew point in this fog the air not great visibility this is one of the worst and earliest allergy seasons coming let's take a look at the temperature at spreads ...

you can see that the wind is blowing changing the game we are overcast across most of the metropolitan area. three- quarters of an inch of rain will most likely be coming down. but there is quite a range depending on where you live with these rain shower accumulations ... and when the thunderstorm's get involved there can be more in some places naturally

the heaviest rain has been avoiding the western suburbs thus far we will have these downpours popping over us from time to time through the evening into the night. we are applauding this rainfall as it moves north into our area. this will not be a continuous rain event it will come to us in bursts over today and into tomorrow and we are looking at the longer term temperature readings ... we may go into the '70s and land but the temperatures will remain

in the 50s near the lakeshore of the next couple of days the forecast is for sporadic showers and some thunderstorms gusty winds and thunder storms and maybe some downpours are expected it is called it a stamp is clammy along the shoreline tonight will be cloudy with showers in the chicago metropolitan area with fog. tomorrow will be cloudy and damp and cool. it will be 62 degrees and the fifties at the lakeshore. interesting day on sunday partly sunny windy and cooler maybe into the mid '60s

... monday also looks cooler good luck in your road race dina >>time for today's trivia question in

time for sports, top-seeded michigan state has made the sweet sixteen ten times in the past fifteen years... but that experience didn't help them against a fourth-seeded louisville team. both teams combined to shoot less than 30-percent from the field. state tried to come back in the second.. draymond green scored thirteen and had 16 rebounds...but had six turnovers. louisville's kyle kuric sealed it with a three with a minute left. they win 57 to 44. louisville will play

florida...who beat marquette last night. wisconsin trying to knock off top-seeded syracuse. the badgers came out shooting...hitting *14* three- pointers in the game. they took a short lead late in the second half. but syracuse answered...shooting 55-percent from the field. final seconds, wisconsin down one...they couldn't any good looks. syracuse holds on 64- 63...they'll play ohio state...who beat cincy last night. the bears have signed running back michael bush to a four- year, 14-million dollar contract. bush comes to the bears from the raiders...where he had about 14-hundred total yards last year. he'll back up matt forte -- who the bears franchised, and still haven't given a long-term deal. forte was apparently frustrated about the contract, and took to twitter about it. he said yesterday afternoon quote, "there's only so many times a man that has done everything he's been asked to do can be disrespected. ...guess the *good guys* do finish last." forte later said he embraces competition, and help. for his part, michael bush said he's looking forward to joining the bears.

>>it's one of those things ... and has nothing to do with me i do understand i am glad i am staying with the team and i'm going to help him and could give him the ball will push me and will be a better team for it that's a look at sports and your local live illinois lottery drawing is next

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monday the u.s. supreme court will hear an unprecedented six hours of arguments over the course of three days on the constitutionality of that measure the arguments will focus mainly on whether congress exceeded its power by requiring americans to obtain insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty ruling is expected by late june. researchers say that they have discovered a biological close to male pattern baldness which could someday result in a cure they found a certain protein is more plentiful in the bald areas of that had researchers tested mice as well as found the same protein present during their hair shedding phase doctors think that if they can find a way to block the protein from binding to receptor on that hair follicle they could stop baldness are you feeling down? have a

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saute these and add a splash of white wine. i like to sip while diet coke i cook... add some basil with pureed tomatoes and some garlic for a basic marinara sauce.

this smells delicious. you want to keep the garlic raw and light.. more aromatic and healthier for you we take some salt and pepper and we're roast our fish it's a

white fish that's local and then we flake that fish and add it to our marinara sauce. we fry capers at the restaurant.. right now we are adding the cooked pasta into the sauce. we always discuss that with any chef cooking italian here ...

you don't keep the sauce on top of the cooked pasta you integrate the pasta into the solis as it is simmering for a few seconds this is wonderful pasta a perfect complement to your fish sauce. the restaurant is located at 1227 west 18th street in chicago you can try it dinner or sunday brunch for more information on today's recipe or to watch this segment once again

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smokes... it is west of anchorage and the place where there was a massive volcanic eruption back in its history ... until about five or 10,000 years ago the events were still active we are taking a look at these towering thunderstorm clouds just a sample of the rain that will be coming into the chicago area part of a system that will remain here for the first part of this weekend ...

we are looking at temperatures only in the '50s along the lakefront over the next couple of days. this afternoon we have some scattered showers and sunbreaks but another way ofve of rain will hit us this evening there will be fog along the lakefront and 60 degree temperatures inland the coolest reading on sunday will be late in the day it will only make it to 58 degrees monday ... nothing like the 80 degree

temperatures we have been seeing over the last several days however we are still at above normal temperatures with this weekend forecast it will just be rainy and feeling cooler for the next two or three days we thank you for joining us today ... we hope you have a great weekend >>we are leaving you with more music from rachel yamagata. you can see her tonight and tomorrow night at schuba's tavern right here in chicago