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WGN WGN Midday News October 22, 2012

Convicted in a bench trial in 2009. The judge did not send him to prison. Surveillance video shows the beating in february 2007. Officials the 250, the officer slam in million hundred and 10 lb. Woman against wall. No one will likely dispute what happened. Attorneys will try to convince jurors that there was a code of silence their reached high ranks of the Chicago Police department. Her lawyers also claimed the agency that investigated Police Misconduct did not do extensive interview. Prosecutors did not file felony charges until after the video went viral. Opening statements are expected to take about two and a half hours. Were learning more about the man who went on a shooting rampage at a salon in brookfield, wisconsin. His father is speaking out. Police say Radcliffe Haughton killed three woman ad injured four others. Wgns Tony Francisco has the latest on the investigation. Radcliffe haughton had ties to the chicago area. He grew up in northwest suburban wheeling. No stranger to law enforcement. There were called to his home during a domestic incident. His wife claims he threw her clothing in the yard. Police ended up in an hour and a half long standoff with him. The earlier this fall police were called here after another domestic incident. Earlier this month she filed for a restraining order after police say he slashed the tires. We believe this incident and is Domestic Violence related. It took her around the corner and shot her. Even said a small fire that was eventually put out by the sprinkler system. Police spent several hours searching the 9000 sq. Ft. Building before finding radcliff dead. Where not seeking any additional suspects. Our community can feel safe. Mother you do and do not do anything stupid. His father also apologized for his sons actions proved this is not the way we live. This is not aware raise my son. He has been here for a long time. Police have not released any of the names of the victims. We do know that of the four women that were injured when is in Critical Condition and the other three are in satisfactory condition. Haughton lived in wheeling until about 10years ago. He graduated from Wheeling High School in 1985, and served four years in the us marines. He still has some family in rolling meadows. Relatives say they are in shock over the whole situation. Haughtons former neighbors from wheeling say he was someone they trusted. Seemed like he had everything together. He had his wife and he was having a baby. Nothing out of the ordinary. Haughton also lived in northbrook shortly before moving to wisconsinthe search continues for a woman from calumet city. 42yearold gena has been missing since october 13th. Police have charged livein boyfriend clark with first degree murder. Investigators say they found blood throughout the couples home. Outside the home, they found bloodstained womans clothing broken furniture and a plastic shower curtain stained in blood. Officials say clark discussed telling police where body was as long as he could get a deal. Congressman Jesse Jackson junior is heading back to the mayo clinic. Jackson has been on medical leave from his duties as representative of the second Congressional District since june for treatment of bipolar disorder. In a robocall this weekend jackson pleaded with his constituents to be patient. The reverend Jesse Jackson his father says his son needs more treatment to in his words regain his equilibrium. Jackson has served in congress for 17years and is running for reelection. He has not been campaigning however and faces a challenge from republican brian woodworth. It is against medical advice. I will always give my call to my constituents i ask you to continue with patience. His father says his son needs more treatment to regain his equilibrium. Jackson has served in congress for 17 years and is running for reelection. He has not been campaigning. Early voting is underway in illinois with chicagoarea Election Officials predicting a Record Number of ballots will be cast before the november 6th election day. In addition to early polling theyre also predicting a strong surge in voting by mail an option state law has made more convenient since the last general election in 2008. This year early voting will run through november 3rd. The saturday before election day. People wishing to vote early must present governmentissued identification something thats not required on election day. Chicago has Early Voting Centers in each of the citys 50 wards. A new wall street journal poll shows the president ial race is a tie. Nationally, both candidates have 47 percent support. Among women, president obama leads 51 to 43 percent, which is the smallest lead the president has had this year. And heres a look at an estimate of Electoral College votes from real clear politics dot com. It shows the president can expect 201 votes from states that are expected to go his way. Romney has 206. But there are 131 votes up for grabs in tossup states. 270 electoral votes are need to win the presidency. With only 15days before the election. The candidates face off tonight in the final president ial debate. Cnns athena jones reports that Foreign Policy will be the focus. Third and final faceoff. And will focus entirely on Foreign Policy. I will spar over americas role in the world. In the face and terrorism and how to deal with a rise in china. Mr. Obama tried to highlight one of his biggest accomplishments. The topic is Foreign Policy. Spoiler alert. We got bin laden. World affairs are a challenge for every canada. After my trip in 2008 i was attacked as a celebrity because i was so popular with our allies overseas. Im impressed at how well governor romney has avoided the problem. Look at what is happening in syria and egypt. The president said he was going to put a light between us and israel. Both in its face a challenge. He has had some success. He has had some things that are still pretty murky. There is a broad challenge. How do you drill down into specific policies . Then i figured out what a republican foreignpolicy looks like. Important to many voters, foreignpolicy ranks far below the economy. They may mean that governor romney tries to break out of that and bring those issues to domestic. This is their last chance to make their waycase millions. The Chicago Sun Times reports questional hirings by secretary of state jesse white and more by cook county assessor joe berrios. A nephew of berrios was hired by jesse white five weeks after berrios put the son of whites longtime chief of staff on his payroll. Through a spokesman white says its nothing more than a coincidence. Berrios says the hires were based on merit. The cook county ethics board has already accused berrios of violating the countys ban on nepotism by having his son his daughter and his sister on his payroll. Illinois secretary of state police and the Chicago Bears are working together at tonights game to conduct a disability Parking Enforcement sting. Its taking place from noon until 8 pm today at the waldron parking deck, located just south of soldier field. The current fee for parking in a disability parking space is 2 hundred50 dolars. Repeat violators can face fines of 7hundred50 dollars for their second offen next legal cases involving two members of the Kennedy Family are back in the spotlight. Also ahead Lance Armstrong is officially stripped of his Tour De France titles. And the death toll rises in the fungal meningitis outbreak. The world governing body of cycling has officially stripped seventime Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong of his titles. The International Cycling union accepted a report from the Us Anti Doping Agency that said armstrong was at the center of a massive team doping scheme. The agency stripped armstrong of all cycling results dating back to 1998. Including his record run of Tour De France wins. Armstrong has also lost endorsement deals with nike and anheuserbusch. And he stepped down last week as chairman of his Cancer Charity livestrong. Some people who donated to livestrong now say they want their money back. A spokeswoman for the charity says livestrong adheres to high standards, and donations were never misused. As president and an interesting and very difficult few weeks. The trial begins today for robert f. Kennedys son douglas accused of assaulting two nurses in new york. Last january kennedy took his newborn son bo off the maternity ward. He said he was getting some fresh air. Two nurses attempted to stop kennedy. He allegedly twisted one of their arms and kicked the other. He faces misdemeanor charges of harassment and child endangerment. Kennedys attorneys say the nurses were the aggressors. In connecticut another kennedy cousin comes up for parole for his murder conviction. Michael the nephew of Robert Kennedy has a hearing on wednesday. 12 of his family members are expected to attend. Also planning to attend the mother of the girl beaten to death in 1975. She says shell do whatever she can to keep skaykul behind bars. He was convicted in 2002 for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club. They were both teenagers. He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. The death toll from an outbreak of fungal meningitis has risen to 23. North carolina has reported its first death, and tennessee its eighth death related to tainted steroid medicine. A company in massachusetts made and distributed the medicine. It faces local and federal investigations, and a string of lawsuits over the contamination. Twin has political career and did he was an advocate for anti hunger. Just ahead why americas shortage of doctors is expected to increase. And, still to come this midday why the makers of a popular sunscreen are recalling their product. u live from any york stock exchange. No matter who wins your tax bill is going up. A temporary reduction in Social Security taxes expires. Need their president ial candidate has any proposed extension. 163 million americans will feel it in their paychecks. That involves a half million bottles. There were reports that some people caught on fire after buying the product and coming into contact with flames. Imagine having to wait six months to see your doctor for yearly checkup. As a shortage of doctors spread from rural areas to cities such as loss vegas and a truck. Detroit. There is a shortage of doctors. The shortfall is going to get worse as the population ages. Millions of dish Network Customers now have their networks back. 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Including a married couple and a couple and their two yearold son. Accused of killing an 93 yearold. When the trial starts next week cameras and highs across illinois will be on that court room. There are already enough moving parts in this case. It will capture his behavior. He held that a judge calling him stupid and ignorant. He will have an Electronic Device that ebay left can legally usea bailiff commuterscan use. And chief judge is supportive of cameras and says they should be in court rooms by years end the Transportation Security Administration is replacing x ray scanner machines at ohare and other large airports. When the xray scanners were installed, some travelers complained about privacy but thats not why the machines are being removed. The tsa says it wants to speed [ the odd couple theme playing ] humans. Even when we cross our ts and dot our is we still run into problems mainly other humans. At Liberty Mutual insurance, we understand. 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