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12-year-old missing Fernwood girl found safe

By Matthew Hendrickson

A 12-year-old girl who was reported missing Sunday afternoon from the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side has been found safe.

Lashaiyah Williams had last been seen Saturday in the 10200 block of South LaSalle Street, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.

Police said Tuesday afternoon that Williams had been found safe, and was reunited with her family.

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A man holds what appears to be a gun on Friday while standing on a makeshift platform atop of a Humboldt Park building in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue during a standoff with police.

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Humboldt Park residents say they reported swastika, erratic behavior of man dead after police standoff, but ‘no one was listening’

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John D. Murphy, a former Catholic priest in the Augustinian order, in an undated photo.

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Ex-priest, who left after sex abuse accusations, settlements, not among 451 predatory clergy Kwame Raoul’s investigation turned up

John D. Murphy, a former Augustinian priest, isn’t on any public list of abusers. The attorney general’s investigation didn’t name him. The Archdiocese of Chicago settled claims over Murphy but doesn’t include him on its list. And his Catholic religious order hasn’t named abusers — but said Saturday it hopes to “in the near future.”

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