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PART I • SPORTS, B1
Monday, September 9, 2013
FACETIME WITH ... GREG SOLOMON
Man makes career out of teaching public speaking
Tough decisions await multi-sport athletes
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2 found fatally shot in DeKalb Woman dead in home, ex-boyfriend apparently kills himself in her car By CHRIS BURROWS cburrows@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Police are investigating the death of a DeKalb woman and the apparent sui-
cide of a man who was found dead inside her car miles away. Morgan Chaney, 26, of the 1300 block of Omega Circle Drive in DeKalb, was found
dead about 6 a.m. Saturday at her home. She had been shot to death, according to a news release from DeKalb police. Chaney’s vehicle and cellphone were taken from her
Dealership asks DeKalb for tax rebate By CHRIS BURROWS cburrows@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Brad Manning Ford is asking for financial help from the city of DeKalb to complete a renovation project that it says will ultimately benefit the city. The Ford dealership, which has been operating on the south side of DeKalb since 1976, has requested a $110,000 sales tax rebate to help fund a building expansion project that the dealership expects to cost $2.3 million. The matter will be presented to the City Council for the first time at today’s Committee of the Whole meeting at 5 p.m. “I am confident that with your help, I will be able to update the facility and improve our business by 30 percent or more,” the dealership’s president, Pat Manning, wrote in a letter to the city. “This guarantees our future as a small business and a steady flow of tax dol-
home. Less than two hours later, DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputies found Andre Gomez, 31, of the 1500 block of Reserve Lane in DeKalb, dead inside Chaney’s vehicle in the 5800
block of Miller Road in rural Shabbona, near a wind turbine. Chaney’s cellphone and a gun like the one used to shoot Chaney were found in the ve-
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hicle with Gomez, police said. Gomez and Chaney had been dating, but no longer were, DeKalb police said in the press release. Workers appeared to be cleaning Chaney’s home
See SHOOTING, page A5
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BEARS RALLY FOR WIN
“I am confident that with your help, I will be able to update the facility and improve our business by 30 percent or more.” Pat Manning, president of Brad Manning Ford, in a letter to the city lars to the city.” According to documents provided by the city, the dealership wants to demolish its existing showroom, customer waiting room and some offices and replace it with a larger, modernized showroom that would add about 3,700 square feet to the current building, which houses about 18,000 square feet. Under the proposal, the dealership also expects to
See REBATE, page A5
Doubts linger over Syria gas attack responsibility The ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT – The U.S. government insists it has the intelligence to prove it, but the public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence produced by U.S. intelligence – no satellite imagery, no transcripts of Syrian military communications – connecting the government of President Bashar Assad to the alleged chem- Bashar Assad ical weapons Syrian a t t a c k l a s t president month that killed hundreds of people. In its absence, Damascus and its ally Russia have aggressively pushed another scenario: that rebels carried out the Aug. 21 chemical attack. Neither has produced evidence for that case, either. That’s left more questions than answers as the U.S. threatens a possible military strike.
The early morning assault in a rebel-held Damascus suburb known as Ghouta was said to be the deadliest chemical weapons attack in Syria’s 2½-year civil war. Survivors’ accounts, photographs of many of the dead wrapped peacefully in white sheets and dozens of videos showing victims in spasms and gasping for breath shocked the world and Barack moved President Barack Obama U.S. president Obama to call for action because the use of chemical weapons crossed the red line he had drawn a year earlier. Yet one week after Secretary of State John Kerry outlined the case against Assad, Americans – at least those without access to classified reports – haven’t seen a shred of his proof.
Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Chicago’s Martellus Bennett snags a Jay Cutler pass for a touchdown Sunday as Cincinnati’s George Iloka defends in the first quarter at Soldier Field.
It started ugly, but the Bears rallied in front of a home crowd to win their season opener over a very good Bengals team 24-21. After gaining only 97 yards of offense in the first half, the Bears put up 226 yards after halftime. They got the ball with 6:38 to go and never gave it back. In his first game with the new of-
fense, Jay Cutler completed 21-of-33 passes for 242 yards, two touchdowns and one pick. His favorite target, Brandon Marshall, had eight catches for 104 yards and the go-ahead score. On defense, Charles Tillman had two interceptions and Tim Jennings forced and recovered a fumble.
MORE INSIDE: For complete coverage and analysis of Sunday’s Bears matchup, turn to BEARS EXTRA, pages B6-7.
See SYRIA, page A5
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