This Day In History

Jul 22 1934
John Dillinger is killed by the FBI at the Biograph Cinema in Chicago. After seeing this picture, many people come to believe that he must have possessed an enormous schlong. Actually, it is his arm in rigor mortis. (A competing theory holds that this is not Dillinger at all, but some patsy chosen because of the FBI's inability to capture the gangster.)

Jul 22 1991
Tracy Edwards escapes from Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment, handcuffs still attached. After being summoned to the scene, Milwaukee police encounter the partial remains of 11 previous victims. Dahmer is ultimately charged with 15 murders.

Jul 22 1994
In court, O.J. pleads "absolutely, 100% not guilty" of savagely killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Snowstorm Wreaks Havoc, Barrels East; Metrodome Roof Collapses

(CNN) -- A powerful snowstorm barreled east through the Midwest on Sunday, bringing with it more precipitation and gusty winds and leaving behind a trail of significant damage, large snow drifts and subarctic temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.

Winter storm warnings and advisories Sunday extended as far west as Illinois, as far east as Pennsylvania, and as far south as northern Alabama and Georgia.

Meanwhile, residents of the upper Midwest who braved at-times blizzard conditions on Saturday faced the prospect Sunday night of wind chills dipping, in spots, as low as 30 degrees below zero. This comes after up to 23 inches of snow fell in parts of Minnesota and as many as 18.5 inches in Wisconsin since Friday.

"We could see wind chills (that are) obviously extremely dangerous for people, to have that kind of exposure for any length of time," said Tod Pritchard, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Emergency Management agency.

After prompting the closure of highways in Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and elsewhere a day earlier, the storm wreaked havoc with air travel Sunday.

About 1,375 flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare airport had been canceled as of 4:45 p.m. (5:45 p.m. ET), the city's aviation department reported, with delays for travelers heading to and from the Windy City averaging around just over 6 hours. Another 300 flights had been canceled at nearby Midway airport.

"The main problem ... right now is the winds," said Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Karen Pride. "The winds are very high and gusting very strongly, and we do have lake-effect snow as well."

The headaches, though, went far beyond Chicago. On Sunday evening, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson and Newark, New Jersey's Liberty airports reported delays of roughly two-and-a-half hours, slightly longer than that experienced at Boston's Logan airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Those were just a few of the many airports, and many more flights, affected as high winds, low visibility and heavy snow crippled traffic for a second straight day.

Delta Air Lines spokeswoman Leslie Parker said as of 5 p.m., the airline had canceled 748 flights nationwide. American Airlines had called off 272 departures from O'Hare, out of more than 400 nationwide, said spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagas.

United had canceled about 350 departures, mostly from Chicago, an airline spokeswoman said, while partner Continental nixed 125 such flights from Chicago, Cleveland, Ohio, and Newark, New Jersey. JetBlue canceled 125 flights due to the storm, said spokesman Mateo Lleras.

The pounding snow caused the roof of the 64,000-seat Metrodome in Minneapolis to "deflate" Sunday morning, Minnesota State Patrol spokesman Lt. Eric Roeske said. Workers wielding shovels could be seen clearing the roof of the heavy white stuff, while photos from inside the darkened stadium showed much of the field covered with snow that fell from a gaping hole in the dome.

"Obviously the weight of the snow would affect how much air pressure is necessary to keep that roof up," Roeske said. "Something caused that air pressure not to be strong enough or high enough to keep that roof at its normal position."

Roy Terwilliger, chairman of the Minneapolis Metro Sports Commission -- the group that oversees the Metrodome -- said the heavy snow and cold, high winds "was too much pressure on the dome and several panels on the Teflon roof were caused to rip."

Sunday's game between the hometown Minneapolis Vikings and New York Giants has been pushed to Monday at 7:20 p.m. ET and moved 540 miles southeast to Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, the NFL said in a statement Sunday. All those with tickets to the originally scheduled game would get preferred seating near the 50-yard line and free tickets would be distributed, the league said.

Even with the snow and winds subsiding, road travel remained perilous in much of Minnesota. St. Paul, for one, declared a second snow emergency through early Monday to expedite plowing of city streets.

"The big problem is ice under the snow, making it really slick and really hazardous," said St. Clair resident Alan Scott.

In Wisconsin, Gov. Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency for 72 counties to facilitate the movement of emergency resources and personnel who were activated Saturday, he said in a statement. We Energies reported 10,000 power outages across the state Sunday, said Barry McNulty, a spokesman for the company.

In Iowa, snow had subsided in some areas but emergency workers were coping with more than 1,000 power outages, a state emergency spokesman said.

Greyhound bus service along the Omaha-Des Moines route was expected to resume later Sunday. Some bus travelers at the Des Moines bus station had been stuck there since Saturday night. Greyhound spokeswoman Maureen Richmond said pizza was brought in for those passengers due to the inconvenience.

Patti Thompson, a spokeswoman for the emergency services in Illinois, said Sunday that northern counties were getting the worst of the weather Sunday afternoon and that Department of Transportation teams were working to clear roads. No power outages have been reported, she said.

While many states saw snow Sunday, the expected accumulation of a few inches in most locales paled compared to what hit Wisconsin and Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to National Weather Service forecasters.

The reach of the storm system continues to expand. Hard freeze warnings, for instance, extended as far south as Florida, with the weather service forecasting 13-degree wind chills on Monday night in Tallahassee.

Still, not everyone in the United States was shivering. Parts of southern California were experiencing record-warm temperatures with high temperatures Sunday above 80 degrees.

Student Was Killed After Meeting Friends at Bar

(CNN) -- It was a Friday night in June 2007 when 22-year-old college student Kelly Nolan left her home to meet friends at a bar in Madison, Wisconsin.

Police say she and three girlfriends spent the evening at a bar in the State Street area of Madison.

About 11:30 p.m., Nolan and her friends separated, because her friends wanted to go home, and Nolan continued on to another bar.

It is unclear exactly whom Nolan was with afterward. Two weeks after she went missing that night, her body was found in a wooded area on private property 11 miles from where she'd last been seen.

The coroner and police have characterized her death as a homicide but have not released a cause of death or details on the condition of her body.

"We have collected a lot of crime scene evidence and feel confident this case can be solved," said Joel De Spain, a spokesman for the Madison Police Department.

According to police, Nolan's last contact with anyone was a cell phone call in the early morning to her sister, April. Triangulation from pings on her cell phone led police to search the area where they found her body July 9.

Tom Paras, owner of Amy's Cafe, a bar in the State Street area, said an employee met Nolan at another nearby watering hole called the Lava Lounge.

Police won't confirm it, but the witness claims that he and Nolan walked out of the bar together because another male bar patron had been harassing Nolan, Paras said.

"The guy was giving her the creeps," Paras said.

The two walked out, but then Nolan asked Paras' employee to wait for her to use the bathroom.

"They were both very drunk," Paras said, "And he admits he was stupid to have left her there when he saw her talking to that guy again outside, but he assumed they were friends."

According to Paras, the real problem is that no one has an accurate description of this person of interest.

Furthermore, police have not revealed any possible motive in Nolan's murder, nor have they said whether she had been sexually assaulted. Investigators even reviewed surveillance video from the bar but found nothing that shows Nolan interacting with the individual last seen with her.

There is a $12,000 reward being offered for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual responsible for Kelly Nolan's murder. Anyone with a tip is asked to call the Madison Police Department at (608) 266-6014.

Milton Middle School Responds To 3 Heroin Overdoses

MILTON, Wis. -- The Milton School District is looking to take action after three middle school students overdosed on heroin.

Police are also recommending charges in the case, which stems from an incident on May 16. Police said three eighth-graders from Milton Middle School overdosed in a park. All three have since recovered.

As police investigate, the school is looking to reach out to students.

Police said a first encounter with heroin almost ended a life before reaching high school.

"One of the juveniles had actually stolen (heroin) from one of his friends' parents, and they subsequently snorted it at a residence in Milton and went to an area park, where all three boys started suffering from the side effects of heroin use," said Milton Police Chief Jerry Schuetz.

A passer-by in South Goodrich Park found the three teens, one unconscious, and got help.

Investigators said the eighth-graders didn't even know what they put in their system.

"One of the juveniles testified that they thought it might have been cocaine, which is why I think that they snorted it. The other juveniles were not exactly at all sure what they were using," said Schuetz.

The middle school was planning an anti-drug presentation in the fall, but said it will now accelerate efforts to reach students.

"We need something now. The summer's coming; we just need to catch them now," said Milton Middle School Principal Tim Schigur.

Police will speak to the school Friday, before students break for summer vacation.

"(We want to encourage students to) make better choices, (to) make something like this less of a viable option. We can't control life outside of the school building, but can we at least give them the knowledge of this is what could potentially happen if you choose these kinds of things," said Schigur.

Police and school officials said the students made a bad choice that nearly had an even worse consequence.

"To be quite frank, I think that we're very fortunate that this wasn't a more negative outcome," said Schuetz.

Milton police are recommending that the 15-year-old suspected of stealing the drugs be charged with felony distribution to minors.

Police said they also want charges of failure to render aid and contributing to the delinquency of a minor filed against Lori Bone, 32.

Police said they believe the heroin was Bone's. Police said they want her side of the story, but said she moved to Michigan and is not cooperating in their investigation.

Ugh, WHY Does It Have To Be A DSS Worker??

DSS caretaker charged in child's February death

CAYCE, SC (WIS) - The Department of Social Services-appointed caretaker of a nine-month-old boy is being charged months after deputies say she taped a pacifier into the child's mouth, killing him.

SLED arrested 30-year-old Angela Deniece Dukes at around 6:30pm Wednesday and charged her with unlawful conduct towards a child.

Dukes had been given custody of Curtis Williams on February 7, after Williams' mother, Katrina Jivers, was arrested for smoking pot with Williams and Jivers' two-year-old daughter in the room.

Both kids were taken into DSS custody. Cayce police say cocaine was found in the 2-year-old daughter's system. The son, Williams, tested posted for marijuana.

Williams died less than 24 hours after Dukes took custody.

SLED officials say Dukes taped a pacifier into the child's mouth, which obstructed his breathing and resulted in his death.

Coroner Gary Watts tells WIS News 10 he reported Williams' death as possibly suspicious, and that's what began the investigation.

At the time of the child's death, Jivers' family claimed there was more to the story than Jivers' drug use.

"Instead of saying, 'hey we made a mistake,' they're trying to stick her with something to cover themselves, cover their tracks," said Jivers' uncle, Rossevelt Jivers.

We talked to the grandmother of the baby, who saw him in the hospital before DSS took him. She says the family has been suspicious of what happened ever since.

"There was nothing wrong with him. There wasn't any thing wrong with him, so you wouldn't expect to hear something like that, but it was the most heartbreaking thing I ever heard," says Shirley Jivers.

Cayce police insisted they followed protocol at the time, but so far they've made no statement concerning the newest developments.

There's also been no response from the Department of Social Services, who placed the child in Dukes' care.

Shirley Jivers says she isn't receiving this news easily, knowing her other granddaughter, the two-year-old, is still in DSS custody herself.

She says Katrina Jivers is also receiving this news, and that she bonded out of jail about a month ago.

Officials say Dukes, who is a neonatal nurse at a local hospital, is at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing. It wasn't immediately clear if she had an attorney.