that's hard on anybody, and he couldn't handle it. >> luis harris has already been found guilty by aonating a police officer in order to rape a young woman on the city's bayshore boulevard. he still says he's innocent, but today he is headed back to court to be sentenced. >> some people say this guy is a great con artist. what i can tell you is this, my emotions and my tears are real. my sincerity is 100% real. >> harris previously served a three-year sentence in state prison for grand theft and violating probation, and does not want to go back. >> prison life is a traumatic, horrible experience. so much so that during my interview of my arrest this time i told a detective, you know, if i had the ability to take your gun from you, i would have taken it and shot myself in the head, because i don't want to return to prison. that's everybody's worst fear. >> the judge who will now sentence harris says the evidence is overwhelming. >> he kidnapped her, he pretended he was a cop, he raped her. he got her p.i.n. number under false pretenses. he used her credit card, and he obtained her mon

harris carrying a bag into a wooded area, where the girls remains were found. the house ethics committee confirms, it has opened an investigation into the conduct of congressman luis gutierrez. the congressman's former chief of staff, doug scofield, got a half million dollars in contracts to train the congressman's staff, and help draft new releases. if scofield did any *political work, it would violate congressional ethics rules. the contract was cancelled last year. bed bugs have been detected at the thompson center. they were discovered in offices used by the illinois department of financial and professional regulation over the weekend. a spokeswoman for the agency said the contaminated area has been treated, and they are sterilizing paper files. the infected area is located in a part of the building that is restricted to state employees. the bugs were traced to a worker who brought them from home. the landmark blue and yellow water tower in andersonville is now gone - after workers spent most of the day yesterday removing it from the top of the swedish american museum on the far north side. the water tower was damaged during the winter when a heating element w