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This booking photo provided by the Chicago Police Department, Thursday, May 16, 2019, shows Clarisa Figueroa, who is charged in the death of 19-year-old expectant mother Marlen Ochoa-Lopez. First-degree murder charges have been filed against Figueroa and her daughter Desiree Figueroa in connection with the death of Ochoa-Lopez, whose body was discovered earlier in the week, strangled before her baby was cut from her womb. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

Chicago-area hospital’s role in baby-cutting case questioned

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Brawl at Cook County Jail injures 5 maximum security inmates

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In this Thursday, June 26, 2014, photo is an empty room in in the Cook County Jail's infirmary's within the Cermak Health Services second floor psychiatric facility, the landing place for inmates with the most pressing mental health needs in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Cook County jail on lockdown due to employee call-outs

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 2013 file photo shows one of the new cell blocks of the North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck, N.D. Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials hope to start using the new facilities by July, 2013. North Dakota's robust economy has led to a record population, the lowest unemployment rate in the nation and thousands of more jobs than takers. But the state's economic miracle led by its oil bonanza also has resulted in plenty of problems, including more crime and increasingly overcrowded prison and jail cells. A state commission made up of lawmakers, judges, lawyers and law enforcement officials is looking for ways to free up limited lockup space without compromising public safety. (AP Photo/Bismarck Tribune, Will Kincaid, File)

Visitor trapped in Chicago jail for about 30 hours

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Woman charged in NH fatal hit-and-run crash

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In this Jan. 8, 2014 photo, John Blair, left, executive director of the Cook County Sheriff's Office Intelligence Center, consults with Officer John Slepski about a firearms background check Slepski is performing at the center in Chicago. Requests to carry a gun in public are pouring in at more than 1,000 per day in the nation's last state to allow the practice, triggering concerns among Illinois' local law enforcement authorities that they could fall behind in a special 30-day process to weed out applicants with a history of violence. The Cook County Sheriff's office says it already has found about 100 applications it plans to contest after the law went into effect Jan. 5. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Local authorities overwhelmed by gun applications

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press