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Old Second Bancorp: Q3 Earnings Snapshot
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — AURORA, Ill. (AP) — Old Second Bancorp Inc. (OSBC) on Wednesday reported third-quarter profit of $23 million. The Aurora, Illinois-based bank said it had earnings of 50 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 51 cents per share. ...
Trump tested the limits on using the military at home. If elected again, he plans to go further
WASHINGTON (AP) — During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S....
Colorado officer who killed Black man holding cellphone mistaken for gun won't be prosecuted
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado police officer who fatally shot a Black man holding what turned out to be a cellphone as police tried to arrest him will not be prosecuted, the district attorney announced Friday. Officer Michael Dieck told investigators that he believed Kilyn Lewis, who...
Trump drives his anti-immigration message in Aurora, Colorado
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Donald Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that's been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message, often using false or misleading claims and dehumanizing language, that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American...
Trump seizes on one block of a Colorado city to warn of migrant crime threat, even as crime dips
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The city of Aurora is roughly the size of pre-evacuation Tampa, Florida. With 400,000 people spread over 164 square miles, it has swank subdivisions, working-class neighborhoods and the high-end resort where Donald Trump will hold a rally Friday to highlight a city turned...
Trump will hold a rally at Madison Square Garden in the race's final stretch
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to New York in the race’s final stretch, scheduling a rally at the city's iconic Madison Square Garden. Trump is planning his event for Oct. 27 to kick off the final week of campaigning, according to a campaign official familiar with the...
For migrant women who land in Colorado looking for jobs, a common answer emerges: No
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — East Colfax Avenue was the best place to find a job. That's what everyone told Sofia Roca. Never mind the open drug use, the sex workers or the groups of other migrant women marching the sidewalks soliciting work at the very same Mexican restaurants and...
Tren de Aragua gang started in Venezuela's prisons and now spreads fear in the US
MIAMI (AP) — Former federal agent Wes Tabor says his phone has been lighting up with calls from police departments around the U.S. for advice on how to combat the growing threat from the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Tabor was in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
AP Explains: Migration is more complex than politics show
For decades politicians in both parties have bemoaned a U.S. immigration system that virtually all call broken. Attempts at comprehensive reform have failed and popular emotion and partisan rancor have it a new high over the last two years as cities and towns struggled to accommodate migrants. ...
On the streets of a Colorado city, pregnant migrants struggle to survive
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — She was eight months pregnant when she was forced to leave her Denver homeless shelter. It was November. Ivanni Herrera took her 4-year-old son Dylan by the hand and led him into the chilly night, dragging a suitcase containing donated clothes and blankets...
