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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Strike vote day arrives for Chicago teachers | VIDEO
Voting is under way at Chicago public schools Wednesday as teachers decide whether to allow their union to authorize a strike.

Drew Peterson back in court
A would-be burglar was stopped before he could take anything from a home in suburban Crystal Lake.

Brown Line riders advised to allow extra travel time
Demolition work will affect daytime service today and Thursday on the CTA Brown Line.

Van crashes into bus after 2 inside shot
Chicago police are looking for a gunman who opened fire on a van -- killing the driver and causing the van to crash into a CTA bus on the South Side.

Wis. Gov. Walker offers olive branch of brats, beer
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who just survived a Wisconsin recall election, wants to mend Wisconsin's political divide over brats and beers.

Author Ray Bradbury dead at 91
Ray Bradbury, the science fiction-fantasy master born in Waukegan, who transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of ''Fahrenheit 451,'' has died. He was 91.