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LeeAnn Shelton

<p>A man convicted of blindfolding and robbing a disabled man during a West Englewood home invasion in 2012 has been sentenced to 21 years in prison.</p>
<p>A man has been sentenced to 71 years in prison for fatally shooting a 16-year-old Harper High School student and wounding a wheelchair-bound man as the two sat on an Englewood porch in 2012.</p>
<p>John A. Gaines, 74, was found about 1:30 p.m., lying facedown in a creek near the sixth hole of the Geneva Golf Club at 831 South Street, Geneva police said.</p>
<p>Two men were shot in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>Authorities are warning about four recent burglaries in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.</p>
<p>The man robbed the bank at 1554 W. North Ave. about 10:30 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the FBI. He passed a note to a teller, then fled with an unknown amount of cash.</p>
<p>Police are warning about several recent robberies in West Side neighborhoods.</p>
<p>A caregiver is charged with identity theft for allegedly stealing $2,000 from an elderly patient in northwest suburban Libertyville.</p>
<p>The single-vehicle crash happened about 2:50 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the expressway at Fulton, State Police said.</p>