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Just after midnight Tuesday, in one of the last shootings of the Memorial Day weekend, two people pulled out guns and started firing in East Garfield Park. The first call to police was for one person shot on Homan Avenue. Then a second victim. Then a third. Then someone walked into a hospital a few minutes later. In all, 27 of the 69 people hit by gunfire over the weekend were shot in or near the Harrison District, one of the city's most violent and one of the most heavily patrolled by police. So many people were shot there that Deputy Superintendent John Escalante promised Sunday to beef up patrols.  Nine more people were shot there by early Tuesday. The rest of the weekend shootings were scattered across Chicago.  They happened as far north as West Rogers Park and northwest as Jefferson Park and as far south as the West Pullman neighborhood.  The violence centered on the West Side, though. Seven of the shooting incidents on the West Side had more than one vi...

Johnny Manziel made his first court appearance in front of judge Thursday morning after being indicted on a misdemeanor assault charge. Manziel's charge is a Class A misdemeanor that carries up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine in Dallas. The judge told Manziel that he could have no contact - no calls, no texts, no emails, no letters, no visits - with Colleen Crowley, Manziel's ex-girlfriend who has alleged that Manziel struck her during an incident in January. Manziel turned himself in to authories Wednesday, leading to a very interesting mug shot in which Manziel appears to be smiling.  AP Photo/Highland Park Department of Public Safety)   Manziel the tweeted - later deleted - a joke about the mug shot. "Just thankful I had a shirt this time," he wrote. Manziel was referencing to his 2012 arrest in which he failed to properly identify himself to police after a fight in College Station, Texas. Manziel was shirtless for that mug shot.  Th...