A standoff in the city’s Lakeview neighborhood has ended peacefully, police said.

Push comes as Daley backs plan to arm officers with high-powered weapons

Responding to a plan to equip all Chicago police officers with assault rifles, Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday called for a ban on such weapons, increased background checks and a cap on the number of weapons one can buy.

Sen. Edward Kennedy remains in a Boston hospital Saturday afternoon undergoing tests after suffering what family members say was a seizure.

Sen. Edward Kennedy remains in a Boston hospital Saturday afternoon undergoing tests after suffering what family members say was a seizure.

Officials are investigating a possible connection between threatening correspondence and an arson fire that nearly struck the mayor’s vacation home.

A 45-year-old man was found dead in a garbage can on Chicago’s South Side overnight, Chicago police said Saturday.

UPDATE: In his first public comments about correspondence from someone who may have tried to torch his Michigan vacation house, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley described the contents as “very, very vicious.”

UPDATE: In his first public comments about correspondence from someone who may have tried to torch his Michigan vacation house, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley described the contents as “very, very vicious.”

BREAKING: Sen. Edward Kennedy, the 76-year-old legendary patriarch of the Democratic Party, was rushed to a Boston hospital Saturday, with media reports saying that he was suffering from stroke-like symptoms.

President Bush, trying to reassure Palestinians wary of his commitment to their side in the Mideast peace dispute, said Saturday that he is “absolutely committed” to getting an Israeli-Palestinian accord by the end of the year.