Afternoon News Update: March 17

The victims in a deadly Beloit car crash have been identified. Officials say the driver is 22-year-old Adrain Taylor and the passenger is 22-year-old Special Turne Davidson. Taylor died from his injuries, while Davidson remains in critical condition at the hospital. The two-car crash happened on Sunday in Beloit after police tried stopping the vehicle. Taylor then took off on Roosevelt Avenue before striking another vehicle, ultimately slamming into a utility pole. The two people in the other car were not injured.
A Machesney Park man has died after being crushed by the car he was working on. It happened Sunday afternoon in the 11000 block of Ventura Boulevard. According to officials, 35-year-old Shannon Carre was working on a vehicle that was up on jacks which then fell onto his chest, killing him. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Boone County Police are in search of a missing woman. Officials say 82-year-old Myrtle Fieldhouse was last seen at Heritage Woods of Belvidere on Saturday night in the 4000 block of Squaw Prairie Road. She is 5’4” and weighs 115 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Police report that Fieldhouse suffers from dementia.
Chrysler workers who have been laid off have returned to work. The company has confirmed that all shifts are back to normal operations. The layoffs have been going on for several weeks after the sales of its Dodge Dart began to decrease.
Charges are pending against a Georgia man who held police at bay for more than eight hours during a standoff on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. Police say Joseph Felton Jr. was wanted in connection with a murder earlier this month in Georgia. The chase began Sunday afternoon in suburban Harvey and continued into Chicago. The road wasn’t reopened until early this morning.
The Republican candidates for governor are making their last pitches before primary voters have their say Tuesday. The latest ‘We Ask America’ poll shows Rauner with a commanding double digit lead.
A federal judge is scheduled to sentence TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau for bilking consumers through his infomercials. Prosecutors want the judge to impose a 10-year prison sentence at Monday's hearing in Chicago. In November, jurors convicted Trudeau for defying a court order barring him from running infomercials that made false claims about his weight loss book.
The Des Plaines Oasis straddling Interstate 90 in the Chicago suburbs has shut its doors for good. The concession area was a popular road-trip stop for decades, but is being demolished so the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway can be widened.

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