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      • Brad Parks
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        Brad Parks is the Regional Newsgathering Director for CNN's Midwest Region, based out of the network's Chicago bureau.

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      • Chicago police secure a crime scene on the campus of Benito Juarez Community Academy high school in Chicago where four people were shot after school on Dec. 16, 2022. One of the four died. (Terrence Antonio James/The Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

        2 teens killed, 2 wounded in shooting outside Chicago high school

      • Darrell Brooks receives 6 consecutive life sentences plus more than 700 additional years in prison for Waukesha Christmas parade attack

      • Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane ordered to report to federal prison in Colorado

      • Ex-Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights

      • Federal prosecutors ask judge to sentence Derek Chauvin to 25 years for violating George Floyd's civil rights

      • Passenger taken into custody after opening emergency exit and walking on wing of plane

      • No charges will be filed in fatal police shooting of Amir Locke, killed during no-knock warrant service

      • Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police in hate crime hoax

      • Kim Potter, ex-officer convicted in fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, sentenced to 2 years in prison -- less than prosecutors requested

      • Body camera video shows Minneapolis officers shooting Black man during no-knock warrant. Attorneys say he wasn't the target

      • Gun used by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha shootings to be destroyed