2 SOUGHT IN RAPE, ROBBERY Chic...

2 SOUGHT IN RAPE, ROBBERY

Chicago Police are investigating an armed robbery and rape at a rental center forward the South Side Friday night. A police spokesman said pair female employees at the Rent-A-Center at 95th highway and South Jeffery Boulevard were sexually assaulted by means of a man who also robbed the store's cash register around 7:15 pm The transgressor was confronted by two other employee returning to the store after a delivery. The transgressor hit one of these employee with a handgun before fleeing. Police said they got a useful description of the offender from the victims.

MAN QUESTIONED IN BLAST

Police late Friday were questioning a man about a pipe bomb that blew up inside a garbage can at the Hinsdale Metra station earlier in the day. No single was injured in the explosion, which happened about 6:55 a.m. as commuter there were preparing to catch an inbound train to Chicago, said Thomas Ahern, a special agent for the U Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The explosion caused "very minimal" damage, Ahern said. A man who apparently present something in the trash can before the explosion was taken into custody in Chicago after stepping most distant the Metra train from Hinsdale, Ahern said. No charges have been filed against the man, who has not been identified.

2ND POLISH FLIER CHARGED

For the next to the first time in less than a week, a passenger aboard a Polish airliner plant himself in trouble after causing a stir upon a flight from Warsaw to Chicago. According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court Friday, Andriy Govishnyy had to be restrained by the agency of crew and passengers Thursday after he shook a 15-year-old passenger aboard an hap Polish Airlines flight and pushed a flight attendant in the chest. The complaint charged Govishnyy, who allegedly fragranceed of alcohol at the time of the incident, with interfering with the duties of flight attendants. Polish national Tomas Solty was hit with the same charge after he allegedly swore at a flight attendant who wouldn't render free of access a plane door so he could fume and then struck another passenger who tried to intervene.

2 STATIONS TO clog

The Kimball and Francisco L stations upon the Brown Line are scheduled to stop the night of Sept. 15 for renovations. The rehab work, part of the CTA's Brown Line expansion delineate will shut down the Kimball stop for four month and the Francisco stop for six, CTA officials said Friday. When the work is done, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but stations will be able to accommodate longer trains, and Francisco's station house will be largely handicapped accessible. The Sept. 15 weekend will also be the first of several weekend closure of the Kedzie and Rockwell stations. upon those weekends, Brown Line trains will operate from Western to the noose while a bus shuttle will make all of the remaining stops onward the line.

ASH BORER IN WINNETKA

The emerald ash borer has arrived in Winnetka, state agriculture officials confirmed Friday. An arborist discovered the infestation last week while doing a tree contemplate spurred by similar infestations in Wilmette and Evanston. The emerald ash borer, a destructive great annoyance that preys on ash tree was first spott in Kane shire in June.

CITY WORKERS' DATA STOLEN

A city contractor is offering clear credit monitoring to thousands of city employee potentially at risk of identity theft after a laptop containing their personal information was stolen, the mayor's office said Friday. The laptop was stolen in April 2005 from the domicile of an employee for Nationwide Retirement Solutions, the city's provider of deferr compensation services. It wasn't until July of this year that the theft was reported to NRS' investigations team because of "an internal communications error," the city said. The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of up to 38400 employee and retirees were forward the laptop, the city said. The computer has a mingled password system that should shelter against identity theft.

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