Chicago Man, 71, Shot to Death After Answering Front Door
Fredell Bryant was in his South Side Chicago home where he'd lived for 40 years when he heard a knock at the door around 6 a.m. Sunday.

Fredell Bryant was in his South Side Chicago home where he'd lived for 40 years when he heard a knock at the door around 6 a.m. Sunday.
So, let’s get a couple things out of the way first:
Las Vegas police are still searching for answers after, they say, a woman deliberately drove her vehicle onto the sidewalk of a busy street known as the Strip on Sunday, leaving one person dead and injuring some 37 others.
On Friday, a Florida sheriff’s deputy stopped a motorist for operating a moped with no tag, and within seconds, the traffic stop turned violent after the driver punched the deputy before pulling a gun and exchanging fire with the officer, authorities say.
A 13-year-old Atlanta, Ga. boy accidentally shot his mother in the neck after reportedly finding a gun in his South Fulton County neighborhood.
Civil rights activist Ozell Sutton, who was one of the first African-Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corp., died "peacefully" at Saint Joseph Hospital in Atlanta on Saturday, his daughter Alta Sutton told the Associated Press. He was 90.
Throughout 2015, reproductive-rights issues have made headlines, and the news has mostly been bad.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when people are encouraged immensely to boost their calorie intake, credit card debt and alcohol levels (so long as they’re not driving; we frown upon that). It’s also the period in which each of us can do a little inventory—namely in the form of New Year’s resolutions—and figure out how to make our next year better than our present. Some people frown upon this practice, but those people are annoying and joyless.