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A man was charged today in connection with a fatal crash that killed a 53-year-old woman Saturday on the North Side.  

Quovadis Temples, 23, of the 4000 block of West Hirsch Street, was charged with one count of reckless homicide, leaving the scene of an accident that caused death and criminal trespass to land.  

Temples also was charged with disobeying a traffic signal, failure to reduce speed, driving without a license and operating a vehicle without insurance, said police.

At about 12:49 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to a crash near the intersection of Division Street and Elston Avenue, said police. A woman was found unresponsive in her car. She was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she died a short time later, sai...

A 23-year-old man, who was shot multiple times late Sunday night in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood, has died from his injuries.

At about 11:17 p.m., police responded to a call of a person down in the 0-99 block of West 112th Street.  When they arrived, officers found a man with gunshot wounds to his head and back, said police.

The man was taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was later pronounced dead, said police.

Police are investigating.

--Deanese Williams-Harris

A 31-year-old man was shot twice in the side Sunday evening in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

At about 7:30 p.m., police responded to shots fired in the 6300 block of South May Street and found the victim with gunshot wounds to his body. 

The victim, who was shot by an unknown suspect, was taken to Stroger Hospital in stable condition, said police.

No one is in custody for the shooting. Police are investigating.

--Staff report

Thousands of psychiatric patients are likely to move out of nursing homes and into community-based settings in the next five years under a landmark legal agreement designed to reshape Illinois' troubled long-term care system.

The agreement, expected to be filed Monday in federal court in Chicago, lays out a schedule for state officials to offer approximately 4,500 mentally ill nursing home residents the choice to move out of two dozen large facilities known as "institutions for mental diseases" and into smaller settings that experts say are more appropriate and less expensive.

"This is a momentous day for people with disabilities in Illinois," said Benjamin Wolf, associate legal director for the ACLU of Illinois, which filed a lawsuit in 2005 that led to the agreement. "It is the beginning of transforming a system that has been focused on institutionalizing people for decades into one that actually delivers what people want and need."

More than any other state, I...

Pat-down or body scan? Travelers, it's now your call.

A new security tool that scrutinizes an individual's entire body for hidden weapons and explosives will begin screening passengers Monday at O'Hare International Airport, according to federal officials. Transportation Security Administration officers can conduct a scan in as little as 5 seconds without laying a hand on passengers as they pass through airport security checkpoints on the way to board planes.

Your Getting Around reporter experienced the screening process on Friday at checkpoint No. 1 in the United Airlines terminal.

Although some travelers may never accept the idea of an X-ray peeking underneath their clothes in exchange for the ability to travel, my impression was that the process is free of embarrassment.

TSA employees test the ne...

Capping off a fairly terrible fortnight of news surrounding Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward comes word this morning that Modern Warfare 2's map pack is one of the most over-priced pieces of downloadable content we've ever seen.

Popping onto Xbox Live spokesman Larry Hryb's podcast to promote Modern Warfare 2's upcoming "Stimulus Package" map pack (which is launching first on Microsoft's console), Infinity Ward's Robert bowling revealed that the five maps - two of which are old maps being re-released for this game - will cost 1200 Microsoft Points.

Or, $15.

For five multiplayer maps.

Fifteen. Dollars. Or, if you're so inclined, £10, €14, or AUD$19.

Hoo boy.

A cabdriver, shot five times in the face, neck and back, somehow managed to restrain his attacker long enough for police to arrive and arrest the man, according to Zion police.

Patrick Foster, 44, of Park City, was in critical but stable condition Sunday after the shooting early Saturday. He underwent surgery at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, said a hospital spokeswoman who described his family as "still pretty distraught."

Foster was able to pin Darryel J. Garner, 38, underneath him after police said Garner shot him with a small-caliber, five-shot revolver found in the back seat of the taxicab. A bullet also pierced the windshield in front of the driver's seat.

Garner, of the 1000 block of Westmoreland Avenue in Waukegan, was charged with attempte...

The Sun-Times reports: A fire that started near a fireplace Sunday afternoon displaced a Hanover Park family. Firefighters rescued the family's cat and dog.

Get the full story: suntimes.com.