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Homicides reported in Harvey, Ford Heights over Thanksgiving weekend
Reginald Hunt, a 34-year-old man whose address is unknown, was killed by multiple gunshot wounds at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday on East 147th Street in Harvey, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
An unidentified person was shot in the head Nov. 27 on Ambassador Lane in Ford Heights, the medical examiner reported. No additional information was available.
The murder of an unidentified victim on Ambassador Lane in Ford Heights was included in the medical examiner’s Friday report. The cause of death was listed as a gunshot to the head. No additional iinformation was available from the medical examiner’s office or the Cook County sheriff’s office.
Harvey police released more information last week regarding the homicide of 30-year-old Sean A. Boyd II, of Chicago, who was killed in Harvey on Nov. 22. The killing took place during a “gambling incident” in a basement of the 15200 block of Honore Avenue, police said. Harvey police and the Illinois State Police are investigating.
Harvey police are trying to identify a suspect in Boyd’s death who was caught on camera, and have asked anyone with information to contact jmagana@cityofharveyil.gov or 708-712-8035.
elewis@chicagotribune.com
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/homicides-harvey-ford-heights/
Ministerio de Salud de Cuba reporta 33 muertes por virus de dengue y chikungunya
Associated Press
LA HABANA (AP) — El Ministerio de Salud de Cuba confirmó el lunes 33 muertes ocurridas en los últimos cinco meses debido a contagios de virus de dengue y chikungunya, ambos transmitidos por mosquitos, en medio de lo que reconoció como una “situación epidemiológica compleja”.
La viceministra del área, Carilda Peña García, indicó en una presentación en la televisión estatal que se produjeron 12 decesos por dengue –entre ellos siete menores de edad—y 21 por chikungunya, de los cuales 14 fueron niños.
“Estas enfermedades realmente están causando mucho padecer en la población”, dijo Peña en su comparecencia.
Las cifras corresponden al periodo que comprende desde el comienzo del verano boreal el 21 de junio a la actualidad. En el verano se desarrollan estas arbovirosis, es decir enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos que proliferan bajo la humedad y el calor tropical.
Las declaraciones de la funcionaria salieron al cruce de una gran preocupación entre la población que reportó síntomas febriles y muchas molestias asociadas a dichos virus, como fuertes dolores articulares o de cabeza que duran semanas, erupciones cutáneas, náuseas y fatiga extrema.
Para ambos casos, las provincias con infestación más elevadas fueron Camagüey, Pinar del Río, Santiago de Cuba, Sancti Spíritus y La Habana, explicó la funcionaria. En el caso del dengue, está presente en los 14 municipios.
El dengue circula desde hace muchas décadas en Cuba y en momentos críticos incluso se convirtió en una pandemia, mientras que el chikungunya es de aparición relativamente reciente. En ambos casos no se trata de enfermedades mortales, pero pueden llevar al deceso en situaciones que se agravan o pacientes con enfermedades de base.
Según la funcionaria, hasta el pasado domingo las autoridades de salud cubana contabilizaron 38.938 casos de chikungunya, de los cuales 37.678 son “sospechas clínicas” o sea coinciden exactamente con la sintomatología a partir de la llegada de los pacientes a policlínicos y consultorios barriales —la salud es completamente pública por lo que todos los centros son dirigidos por el Estado— y 1.260 están “confirmados por PCR”, como se denomina a los exámenes específicos.
Salvo para las personas con agravamiento de los síntomas, el protocolo establece internación domiciliaria, explicó Peña.
On The CIA’s Color Revolution Against The Nation It’s Supposed To Serve…
On The CIA’s Color Revolution Against The Nation It’s Supposed To Serve…
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
A Modest Proposal
“This isn’t just about Maduro. This is the final nail in the coffin for the CIA-black-budget narco pipeline that’s been running since the 80s.”
– The Ghost of Ezra on “X”
You must wonder: what exactly has CIA Director John Ratcliffe been doing over in Langley, VA, lo these many months since things changed bigly in Swamptopia? Does he wander the hallways of that giant black box howling ineffectually. . . sit barricaded in his office playing sudoku. . . or is he doing what needs to be done: methodically uncovering and disassembling the diabolical racketeering operation that the agency has become?
One thing for sure: you have heard next to squat coming out of his mouth all year. Mr. Ratcliffe is playing a close hand in a dangerous game and I tend to think that he is for-real. Very few Americans know what really goes on backstage at the CIA, but just say they try to whack the director — that would be checkmate on them. The agency would not survive the arrests of its personnel. And, anyway, Mr. Trump is moving swiftly now to shut down the engine of its nefarious activities.
The CIA, you understand, is the beating heart of the Deep State (a.k.a. the blob). The Democratic Party and the Never-Trump RINOs are its errand boys. And that is why a ten-year-long coup has been running to smash Trump and Trumpism. “Joe Biden” was a piece of furniture thrown out of the truck that the CIA was driving to escape the scene of the crime. “Joe Biden” was under threat of blackmail the whole four years he haunted the Oval Office, having run his own petty racketeering operation to keep his miserable, extended, sick family in beach houses.
CIA Headquarters, Langley, Va.
Mr. Trump is now striking at the apparatus of the CIA’s extra-constitutional power and influence: the election interference machinery that queers politics at home and abroad, and the drug cartel that furnishes the money to run CIA’s many black ops, finances the NGOs behind lawfare and gay-communist street action, and probably underlies many a congressional fortune. That is why the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier group is lurking offshore of Venezuela. That is why Venezuela’s airspace is shut-down, and why Nicolás Maduro is rumored to be fleeing to points unknown in his Gulfstream jet.
While you were carving your turkey, Mr. Trump was preparing to go medieval on Maduro’s $1.5-trillion Cartel del Sol operation, of which the Mexican cartels are mere subalterns, shoveling drugs into the demoralized US population ruined by the campaign that moved productive industry to China, and gainful employment with it.
Mr. Trump hinted that US forces are going into Caracas “very soon” — apparently to seize the Smartmatic servers, cartel drug ledgers, and other evidence of long-running turpitude, and you have to wonder how many someones out of Langley, with names, titles, and offices will turn up in the mix.
Mr. Ratcliffe must know who they are by now. Some of them have been at it since the cowboy days of Mena, Arkansas, back when Bill Clinton was governor and the cocaine planes from Colombia were landing day after day on that little backwater airstrip. The cartels had to switch to boats lately, and we see how that’s been working out. Is it not amazing that Democratic Party mouthpieces object to Mr. Trump blowing them up? They’d rather see another ten thousand unemployed citizens die of fentanyl poisoning in Meigs County, Ohio.
The blob’s errand boys (and girls) in Congress made their lame diversionary move on November 18 with the “Seditious Six” video, an attempt to stir-up mutiny in the military ranks. It backfired badly. It looks like the Dept of War is going to make an example of Senator Mark (“the astronaut”) Kelly, because he was the only veteran among the six who served long enough to qualify for mandatory re-enlistment — and, thus, be subject to military justice, outside the control of blob-run DC federal district judges like “Jeb” Boasberg.
The “Seditious Six” organizer, Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), an ex-CIA official, followed up on the mutiny video November 23 during an interview with ABC’s This Week show, saying she expected that national guard troops might soon shoot US citizens in “stressful situations.” Didn’t work out that way. Rather, three days later, a former CIA-run Afghani “refugee” drove all the way cross-country from Bellingham, WA, to shoot two national guard troops in their heads on a DC street the day before Thanksgiving. The CIA is supposed to track their assets. Who was tracking Rahmanullah Lakanwa? Maybe Elissa Slotkin can ask her old colleagues back in Langley and report back to the public.
Beneath all this surface huggermugger the ongoing coup against Trump and Trumpism still wriggles and rumbles. It looks like it’s going to blow now and spew debris all over the swamp.
If John Ratcliffe has the names of CIA officers who have practiced “color revolution” against our country, he must have passed them on to DNI Tulsi Gabbard and, in turn, the president.
Lincoln assassination plotters at the gallows, July, 1865
Mr. Trump might consider treating them the same way that President Andrew Johnson treated the cabal behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The eight defendants (minus John Wilkes Booth who was hunted down and shot in a Virginia barn) were tried by a nine-member military commission at the old DC arsenal. Four were hanged, three sentenced to life in prison, one to six years.
The CIA’s color revolution against the nation it’s supposed to serve is a much larger, farther-flung, sinister conspiracy than the plot to murder of Abe Lincoln.
There could be dozens, scores of CIA officials in Langley who know what has been going on there.
Maybe JFK was right back in 1963 when he said he wished to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 12/01/2025 – 16:20
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cias-color-revolution-against-nation-its-supposed-serve
Elgin News Digest: Letters to Santa mailbox set up at DuPage Court in Elgin; ECC student bands to present four concerts in December
Letters to Santa mailbox set up at DuPage Court in Elgin
Children can drop off their letters to Santa through Friday, Dec. 12, at the festive red mailbox located at DuPage Court in downtown Elgin.
Letters should be in sealed envelopes with legible names and return addresses, according to a news release. No postage is required. Santa will send replies if return addresses are provided.
For more information, email marketing specialist Heather Moore at heather.moore@elginil.gov.
ECC student bands to present four concerts in December
Academic music ensembles at Elgin Community College will present four concerts this week and next at the Blizzard Theater in Building H on the Elgin campus.
All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. on these days:
Wednesday, Dec. 3 — ECC Concert Band, under the direction of Greg Matushek;
Thursday, Dec. 4 — ECC Steel Bands, led by Scott McConnell;
Tuesday, Dec. 9 — ECC Concert Choir, under the direction of Kathi Bernhard;
Thursday, Dec. 11 — ECC Jazz Ensemble, led by Shawn Maxwell.
Tickets to each show are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. For more information, go to eccartscenter.org/events/ame.
Carpentersville firefighters holding Toys for Tots drive
The Carpentersville Fire Department will hold a “Fill the Ambulance” toy drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Walmart parking lot, 365 Lake Marian Road, Carpentersville.
Firefighters are collecting with new, unwrapped toys for kids in need, which will be given to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for its annual Toys for Tots program.
For more information, email mattjackson@iaff4790.org.
Chat with South Elgin village president set for Dec. 8
South Elgin will be holding a chat with Village President Steve Ward from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at the Gail Borden Public Library South Elgin Branch, 127 S. McLean Blvd.
The public is welcome to ask Ward questions and share their thoughts about things happening in the village or issues the village board is discussing, according to a social media post. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, call 847-742-5780.
A public open house to mark the 75th anniversary of School District U-46’s radio station, WEPS (88.9 FM), Dec. 9, at the station at the Dream Academy in Elgin. (School District U-46)
U-46 radio station WEPS holding anniversary open house
School District U-46 will hold a public open house to mark the 75th anniversary of its radio station, WEPS (88.9 FM), from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the station, located at the Dream Academy, 46 S. Gifford St., Elgin.
WEPS is one of the oldest continuously-operating school district radio stations in the United States, according to a news release. Visitors are asked to enter through the Dream Academy through Door 15 and be prepared to show a state-issued identification.
Members of U-46’s Communications & Community Relations Team will be available to answer questions, give tours and record visitors reading the call sign identification for the station.
WEPS is launching a revitalized programming lineup, including a podcast, student-created content and an evening story time for young children. The schedule can be found online at u-46.org/weps.
Carpentersville extends yard waste collection through Dec. 11
With leaves falling later than usual, Carpentersville and Groot Waste Management Services have extended yard waste collection in the village through Thursday, Dec. 11.
There will be no additional cost to residents, according to a social media post. Residents living in homes are to set out yard waste as usual, either in biodegradable bags available at local merchants or in seasonal carts on their regular waste collection days.
For more information, call 847-426-3439.
Snowy Small Business Saturday in La Grange doesn’t slow enthusiasm from retailers
La Grange’s 2025 Holiday Season kicked off last weekend with the annual Small Business Saturday Flash Sale.
The Nov. 29 sale was to be followed Dec. 3 by a screening of “It’s A Wonderful Life” at La Grange Classic Cinemas, Benefiting BEDS Plus. The season continues with the La Grange Holiday Walk on Dec. 6.
But it all started with support for the village’s small businesses.
“Small Business Saturday is a celebration of community and entrepreneurship right here in La Grange,” said Dan Mulka, executive director of the La Grange Business Association. “Our local retailers bring heart, character and creativity to the holiday season. When residents shop small, they’re not only getting unique gifts, they’re investing in our neighborhood and building a stronger, more connected La Grange.”
The presenting sponsor, JAYNE Boutique, 20 W. Harris Ave., still had a store full of customers braving Saturday’s snowy weather in search of deals.
“The weather definitely has affected the day,” said Katie Cummings, president of JAYNE. “There’s a slow start to the morning and hopefully, people will come after lunch.”
In addition to a free gift of earmuffs, everything in JAYNE was discounted 20% for the sale.
Mion Artisan Soap, 2 Calendar Ave., went beyond the flash sale concept and offered discounts through Monday, December 1.
“We have our 10% off sale going on this weekend,” Kathy Munoz, store manager, said. “We also have free tissue paper and tags, if you have any gifts. We do that for free.”
Other La Grange businesses participating in the Flash Sale included Balkan Bakery, 541 S. La Grange Rd., offering customers a specialty drink at 50% with any purchase. Club Pilates, 18 W. Burlington Ave., offered 20% off the first month of a limited membership and no enrollment fee for unlimited memberships.
Snow falls Saturday outside Wonderful Matcha, 4 W. Burlington Ave., which was participating in La Grange’s Small Business Saturday. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)
Horton’s Home Lighting offered sales on Christmas lighting; Rick’s West End, 712 W. Burlington, had scratch-off cards with savings on every purchase; La Grange Upholstery, 919 Hillgrove Ave., had a ”10-15-20” promotion, with 10% off in-stock fabrics, 15% off other fabrics, and 20% off Roller Shades.
Wonderful Matcha had 10% off purchases greater than $50, 15% off purchases more than $100, 20% off more than $150, and 25% off more than $200.
Started by American Express in 2010, Small Business Saturday is a nationwide event that encourages shoppers to support local small businesses during the holiday season.
“We try to match it up with (the national) Small Business Saturday,” Dan Mulka said. “With everything going on in the world in terms of the economy and that nature, some businesses are doing sales that are a little bit longer. … Our goal is to try to help everybody as much as we can this holiday season.”
Hank Beckman is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.
Court news: Firearms conviction overturned, prison term upheld
Appeals Court overturns firearm conviction in Cooley murder case
The Indiana Court of Appeals overturned a lower-level firearms conviction in Richard Cooley’s murder case, citing the risk of double jeopardy.
Cooley, now 66, was sentenced to 55 years in July 2024 for the Feb. 13, 2023, shooting death of his wife, Dana Cooley, 47.
He was convicted of murder and pointing a firearm. In a 3-0 decision on Nov. 25, Appeals Judge Melissa May sent the case back to a lower court for resentencing. His prison term is not affected, since both felonies were sentenced concurrently.
His earliest release date is in 2064.
“This is a tale as old as time,” Deputy Prosecutor Harry Peterson said in his closing remarks at trial. “Man loves woman. Woman wants to leave man. Man gets mad.”
Around 10:45 a.m. on Feb. 13, 2023, Portage police responded to the 2100 block of Damon Street in connection with a man calling that he had accidentally shot his wife in the chest, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Defense lawyer Russell Brown said Dana Cooley was accidentally shot when she and her husband “tussled” over a firearm.
An autopsy confirmed that Dana Cooley died from a single gunshot wound to the chest, with the pathologist calling it a “hard contact wound,” meaning that the gun had been pressed against her chest, court records state. There was soot with no stippling and muzzle abrasion on the gunshot wound.
Richard Cooley can appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court.
Yarbrough prison term upheld
The Court of Appeals also upheld a sentence for a Gary man who took an overdosed Griffith woman’s body to an abandoned building to burn.
Emmit Yarbrough, 58, got the maximum 10.5 years under a plea deal in May.
Deborah Leslie, 30, was found Sept. 23, 2022, in a torched-out house on the 5300 block of W. 8th Avenue in Gary. She was last seen alive on camera at a Hammond Motel 6.
Yarbrough and his late co-defendant Heather Richardson were the last people seen with her. Richardson died of a drug overdose in January 2024.
In a 3-0 decision, Appeals Judge Elizabeth Tavitas wrote the prison term was appropriate.
Yarbrough “declined” to help Leslie, afraid he was on probation, she wrote, and instead “looked for a place to dump her body.” He bought the wheelchair used to take her out, then “callously disposed of the body as if it were trash.”
He can also appeal.
His earlier release date is in August 2032.
Horton sentence upheld in Gary slaying
The Court of Appeals upheld Terry Horton’s conviction in a drive-by shooting.
Horton, 28, got 75 years in February for the murder and a gun enhancement in the May 7, 2022, death of Nehemiah Martin, 25. The man’s child was shot in the arm.
His earlier release date is in 2080.
In a 3-0 decision, Appeals Judge Paul Mathias wrote the evidence, including testimony from Martin’s fiancée and sister, was enough for a conviction.
The sentence was appropriate, he wrote.
“Horton, in an apparent act of road rage, fired multiple shots at a family traveling in a minivan, killing the father of three children right in front of the children,” Mathias wrote.
“He also shot a one-year-old child. Regarding his character, Horton has an established criminal history despite his age, and prior attempts at leniency did not deter the instant offense. We affirm his sentence accordingly.”
mcolias@post-trib.com
Murray no se arrepiente de su ‘decepcionante’ etapa como entrenador de Djokovic
LONDRES (AP) — Andy Murray afirmó que estaba “decepcionado” con los resultados de Novak Djokovic durante su etapa como entrenador de su antiguo rival.
Murray se unió al equipo de coaches de Djokovic en noviembre de 2024, apenas tres meses después de que el escocés de 38 años terminara su propia carrera como tenista en los Juegos Olímpicos de París.
Sin embargo, resultó ser una asociación breve de seis meses, ya que la pareja estuvo junta solo para el Abierto de Australia y otros cinco torneos este año.
“Lo miro hacia atrás y me alegra haberlo hecho”, dijo Murray en The Tennis Podcast.
“Es una experiencia increíble que he tenido. No duró mucho, pero puse todo en ello. Estaba decepcionado. Probablemente no obtuvimos los resultados que me hubiera gustado para él”, indicó.
“Fue una buena oportunidad porque sentí que quería entrenar en algún momento y si no la tomaba, podría mirar hacia atrás y pensar que habría sido realmente interesante, podría haber aprendido mucho o potencialmente arrepentirme”, agregó.
Djokovic superó a Carlos Alcaraz para alcanzar las semifinales del Abierto de Australia, pero en el proceso se desgarró el tendón de la corva izquierdo. El campeón de 24 Grand Slams luego se retiró después de un set contra Alexander Zverev y fue abucheado al salir de la cancha.
Cuando regresó, el serbio de 38 años sufrió derrotas al debutar en Qatar e Indian Wells. Luego avanzó a la final del Abierto de Miami, pero perdió ante el adolescente checo Jakub Mensik.
Murray planeaba inicialmente entrenar a Djokovic hasta el Abierto de Francia, pero la asociación terminó en mayo después de derrotas iniciales en tierra batida en Montecarlo y Madrid.
“Estaba yendo bien al principio y fue desafortunado lo que sucedió en Australia con la lesión, pero lo vi jugar un tenis sublime en ese torneo”, dijo Murray.
“Después de la lesión, ciertamente fueron unos meses difíciles para él, pero también creo que para el equipo y todos nosotros. Aprendí mucho sobre lo que es ser entrenador”, relató. “Estaba completamente comprometido, hice mi mayor esfuerzo para ayudar y establecí algunas buenas relaciones en el camino con su equipo”.
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En vilo aspiración presidencial de padre del asesinado político colombiano Miguel Uribe Turbay
Associated Press
BOGOTÁ (AP) — La aspiración presidencial del padre de Miguel Uribe Turbay, senador colombiano asesinado en la campaña electoral en curso, quedó el lunes en vilo luego de que el partido político al que pertenece anunciara que lo apartó de la lista de precandidatos y luego él exigiera una rectificación.
El partido conservador Centro Democrático, dirigido por el expresidente Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), emitió un comunicado en el que enlistó comunicaciones supuestamente cruzadas con Miguel Uribe Londoño, quien asumió como precandidato presidencial en agosto, tras la muerte de su hijo.
El partido indicó que el expresidente fue informado por el abogado y también aspirante presidencial Abelardo de la Espriella que Uribe Londoño renunciaba a su aspiración y se adhería a su campaña.
De la Espriella no pertenece al Centro Democrático, pero es de una línea política afín y está entre la lista de candidatos de la derecha. Tras la polémica, no se ha pronunciado sobre su supuesta intervención.
El partido aseguró que intentó comunicarse con Uribe Londoño durante el fin de semana, pero que este solo le anticipó que “estaba por tomar una decisión muy seria con su familia” y declinó una reunión.
Dijo además que agradecía “la franqueza del Dr. De la Espriella y continuará el proceso con las precandidatas María Fernanda Cabal, Paloma Valencia y Paola Holguín”.
Sin embargo, poco después del comunicado, Uribe Londoño negó en un video en X que haya salido de la contienda: “Es inaceptable que se me excluya de un proceso del cual soy parte por versiones de prensa o de llamadas telefónicas… pido al Centro Democrático que rectifique esta afirmación”.
En Colombia hay cerca de un centenar de precandidatos presidenciales que aspiran a reemplazar en el poder a Gustavo Petro, el primer presidente de tendencia izquierdista en gobernar el país, en las elecciones de mayo de 2026.
Los partidos están depurando sus aspirantes y definiendo posibles alianzas. En un comunicado del lunes, el Centro Democrático detalló que escogería a dos candidatos mediante una encuesta digital a los militantes del partido.
La actual campaña electoral tuvo su episodio más violento con el ataque a tiros a Uribe Turbay, de 39 años, en junio en el occidente de Bogotá. Por la gravedad de sus heridas estuvo bajo pronóstico neurológico reservado durante casi dos meses.
Su muerte conmocionó al país, que hace tres décadas no reportaba el asesinato de un aspirante presidencial, recordando la época de los magnicidios y el asedio de los cárteles de la droga en las décadas de 1980 y 1990.
Las autoridades han capturado al confeso tirador, un menor de edad, sus presuntos cómplices que ayudaron en la logística y la planeación, y el enlace entre ellos y los autores intelectuales. Una de las principales hipótesis apunta a la responsabilidad de la Segunda Marquetalia, una disidencia de la extinta guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC).
La fiscalía informó el lunes que fue formalmente acusado William Fernando González, uno de los presuntos articuladores del crimen, quien no ha aceptado los cargos por homicidio, concierto para delinquir, porte de armas y ocultamiento de pruebas.
Iran Captures Another Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz For ‘Fuel Smuggling’
Iran Captures Another Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz For ‘Fuel Smuggling’
Iran has seized an Eswatini-flagged ship carrying “smuggled fuel”, according to state media. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said they intercepted the ship on Sunday, prompting criticism from the African country.
“A vessel carrying 350,000 litres of smuggled fuel operating under the flag of Eswatini was seized and taken to Bushehr,” an IRGC member told state media. “There are 13 crew members on board, all from a neighboring country and India.”
Iranian drone & helicopter carrier, the Martyr Bahman Bagheri, via AFP.
In response, Eswatini put out a statement denying their country’s involvement in the incident, saying there were currently no ships authorised to fly its flag.
“The Kingdom of Eswatini has no connection whatsoever to the vessel reported to be seized in Iran, and we reject in the strongest terms any attempts to associate our country with maritime criminality,” it said in a statement.
Iranian forces regularly target tankers that Tehran accuses of illegally transporting fuel in the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier in November they captured a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in the geographically pivotal waters.
The authorities said “the tanker was in violation for carrying unauthorized cargo” without providing specifics.
The incidents have come as tensions between Iran and the West have continued to mount over the country’s nuclear program. Widespread United Nations sanctions, including an arms embargo, against Iran were reinstated in September, following the collapse of nuclear negotiations.
Omani-mediated talks between Iran and the United States collapsed in June after Israeli and American strikes on Iran, bringing diplomatic progress to a halt.
Tehran maintains that its nuclear program is peaceful and denies any intention to develop nuclear arms.
Although Iran has released the Panamax tanker TALARA (9569994) without her gasoil cargo, Iran is still holding the following vessels. Here are their locations:
– ARIANA (9500132) at 27.08308, 56.22919
– MSC ARIES (9857169) at 27.0446, 56.14443
– ST NIKOLAS (9524475) at 27.07527,… pic.twitter.com/VdHPEE14Zx
— TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) November 20, 2025
The reimposed sanctions were a “snapback” mechanism from the 2015 nuclear agreement, which had suspended penalties in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 12/01/2025 – 15:40
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-captures-another-tanker-strait-hormuz-fuel-smuggling
La Grange Lacey-Hill group provides Thanksgiving meal, company for over 200
A family from La Grange’s East Side neighborhood continued a tradition of hosting Thanksgiving dinner for area residents who were alone for the holiday.
Lacey-Hill Community Outreach served about 220 people on Thanksgiving at La Grange’s Robert E. Coulter American Legion Post 1941, 900 S. La Grange Rd.
“This got started 27 years ago,” April Hill, partner at Lacey-Hill, said while overseeing the food servers. “My mother saw a homeless man with a turkey and thought, what is a homeless man doing with a turkey? Then she thought, God told me to feed my people.”
About a year and a half later, “she said let’s do it. So we started feeding the community.”
While they normally stage their events at the La Grange Lacey Community Center, that facility is currently undergoing a renovation.
The Community Center gets its name from Hill’s mother, Lynn Lacey, former La Grange Park District commissioner, longtime La Grange resident and activist, and partner in Lacey-Hill.
On the heels of the recent government shutdown and lingering inflation, food shelters are straining to provide relief to those in need, and Lacey-Hill is no exception.
“Absolutely,” she said when asked if there was a greater need for their services this Thanksgiving, “especially with the government shutdown and they stopped SNAP, food stamps at a certain point. We are seeing the effects of it. We are seeing so many people come this year who we have never seen.”
Hill talked about how Lacey-Hill Community Outreach had grown over the years.
“It started out feeding less fortunate families and the homeless, those in need and shut-ins. After 27 years, it doesn’t matter who comes. We just want people in our community to be happy,” she said, including “people who don’t want to eat by themselves.”
Some 220 people ate Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at the Lacey-Hill Community Outreach dinner at American Legion Post 1941. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)
Indeed, not wanting to eat alone was exactly why Anne Ripley and Roy Frack had Thanksgiving dinner with Lacy-Hill.
“We forgot to ask others, they forgot to ask us, and our children live too far away,” Ripley said. “We were going to have our dinner alone, and we decided we would try it and see what it was like to go to a community.”
Ripley and Frack both lost their spouses, met online at “Silver Singles” and have been together for six years.
Some of the volunteers, like Deborah Platon, are relative newcomers to the La Grange area.
“Three years ago, we had some excess cookies and we happened to meet April and she told us she was involved with the shelter,” said Platon, the owner of Crumble,a boutique dessert and cookie store at 1 N. La Grange Rd. “I donated a whole bunch of cookies, and that first Thanksgiving that we were opened, we partnered. We’ve been part of it ever since.”
Platon said she also works with St. Cletus and the Veteran’s Administration to help area shelters.
“This is a good thing,” she said. “We try to give back to the community, and at this you can actually see the people. “It’s fun to see some of our customers here that we recognize.”
Hank Beckman is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.
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