Privacy Policy Last Updated: August 4, 2014 Thank you for visiting this website, which is operated by an Affiliate of Cox Media Group, LLC (“CMG”). This site is one of a network of ad-supported sites operated by Affiliates of CMG each of which also operates a local newspaper, a local television station or a local radio station (each a “CMG Affiliate Site” and, collectively, the “CMG Network of Sites”).
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Each CMG Affiliate Site has adopted this privacy statement to the extent applicable. “Affiliate” means a company controlling, controlled by or under common control with another company. This privacy statement is provided by the CMG Affiliate that operates this website (“we,” “us” or “our”) to explain the ways in which we collect information from you through your use of this site and any services offered through this website and any of our applications or mobile applications (collectively, the “Service”), and the ways that we and the other CMG Affiliate Sites may use that information.
This privacy statement does not apply to any information you may provide to us through other means; for example, at a live event, via mail, or via telephone. Please read this privacy statement carefully so that you understand our online privacy practices. By using our Service, you agree that your use, and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by this privacy statement and our visitor agreement. If you have questions regarding privacy issues, please contact us at [email protected]. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS California law allows California residents, once a year and free of charge, to request information about certain types of personal information (if any) that a business has disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year.
However, under the law, we are not required to provide this information as long as we: (1) notify you of that you have the right to prevent disclosure of personal information, and (2) provide you with a cost-free means to exercise that right. As noted in this Privacy Statement, we require California residents to opt-in to activities where we would share their personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
If you are a California resident and you would like to prevent disclosure of your personal information for use in direct marketing by a third party, do not opt-in to participate in these activities. If you are a California resident, and you have opted in to one of these activities, but you later decide that you would like to prevent our disclosure of your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please contact us. TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT Overview. The information we gather generally falls into one of two categories: (1) information (for example, your name and address) that you voluntarily supply when you register with our Service, initiate transactions on or through the Service (such as buying products or services through the Service), or when you participate in the features we offer through the Service (such as comments posted on a blog, discussion group, or other social networking features on the Service), and (2) information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as visitors navigate through our Service. In some cases, one of our agents or Affiliates may collect the information on our behalf.
Third party Service Providers (as defined below) that provide all or some of the services available through this Service also may be gathering the same kinds of information. Registration Information. To make use of certain features available through this Service (such as to receive email newsletters, to post a classified ad, or to participate in some social networking features) you may need to register and to provide certain information as part of the registration process.
(If permitted by this Service, you may be able to bypass some of the steps within the registration process by using your user name and password associated with your account on certain specified social networking sites when you register for our Service, but you will still have to complete the registration process after entering that information.) We or our Service Providers may also ask for information from you if you buy products or services or conduct other transactions via our Service. (We may ask, for example, for your name, email address, sex, age, zip code or credit card number, and we might request information on your interest in sports, personal finance, the performing arts, and the like.) The information you supply will help us to offer you more personalized features, to tailor our Service to your interests and make them more useful to you, and also may be used in the processing of e-commerce transactions. In addition, our Service Providers may provide us with additional personal information about you that you provide to them through your separate accounts with them as described in their own privacy statements. The more you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary.
But if you don't supply the information we request, we may be unable to provide you with services we make available to other users of our Service. For instance, we can't send you email alerting you to a new service we're offering, or breaking news that may interest you, if you don't tell us what you're interested in and give us your email address.
Contests and Other Promotions. From time to time, we may offer contests, sweepstakes or other promotions via our Service. If you enter one of these contests, sweepstakes or promotions, you'll have to provide information about yourself (such as your name, address, telephone number and email address) so that we can administer and operate the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion (including contacting you if you win, fulfilling a prize, and publishing a winners’ list). If you don't want us to collect the information requested in the registration form or to provide it to any of our Affiliates, Service Providers and co-sponsor(s) as described below, please do not enter the contest, sweepstakes or promotion. Email Newsletters. We may also offer you the opportunity to subscribe to email newsletters that we make available through the Service.
If you have opted to receive a particular newsletter, you may always unsubscribe later if you decide not to receive further mailings of the newsletter from us. See 'Opting In/Opting Out' below. To help make our sites more responsive to the needs and interests of our visitors, we keep track of the pages visited by our users by placing a cookie, a small entry in a text file, on your hard drive. Our advertisers and Service Providers may also assign their own cookies to your browser, which is a process that we don't control. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs and to deliver a better, more personalized service. For example, we may use cookies to personalize the ads you see on our Service or to avoid showing you the same ad repeatedly during a single visit. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on our Service, the CMG Network of Sites, or other sites visited by our users.
We may also use cookies to measure site performance and/or advertising performance. We can build a better Service if we know which pages our users are visiting and how often. You can manage your browser’s cookie setting through the “options” menu on most commercially available web browsers, including options to set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies entirely.
Of course, if you set your browser not to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other users of our Service. Our Service may contain electronic images (called 'single-pixel GIFs' or 'web beacons') or other tools that allow us and our Affiliates, Service Providers, vendors and, where necessary, our advertisers to count users who have visited particular pages of this Service, the CMG Network of Sites, or other sites or applications, or to access certain cookies. We may use these tools and other technologies to recognize which the links visitors click and to track how users respond to ads we place on third-party sites or applications.
These features may also be included in our email newsletters so that we can learn which messages have been opened and acted upon. In combination with cookies, these web beacons allow us (and/or our Affiliates, Service Providers, vendors, or advertisers) to track the number of users who view particular pages and to fine tune the advertising messages delivered to users of this Service and other websites and applications. We may use 'clickstream' data collected using web beacons and cookies to help us tailor promotional content, including such content in email messages and on landing pages, to the perceived interests of our users. Advertising networks with which we are affiliated and third-party advertising services that we use may also use web beacons on our Service to gather similar anonymous 'clickstream' information, which is used to fine tune advertising messages delivered to our visitors and visitors to other websites. Browser Level Information and IP Addresses. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer configuration or your mobile device when you use our Service, including the type of browser software you use, the operating system you're running, the resolution of your computer monitor or mobile device, the website that referred you, the type of device you’re using, and your IP address. (Your IP address is a numerical address that is used by computers and mobile devices connected to the Internet to identify your computer or mobile device so that data (such as the web pages you want to view) can be transmitted to you.
We also use IP address information for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. Your IP address alone does not tell us who you are.) We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our Service (including ads distributed through our Service) to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our Service. Social Networks. When you use the social networking features on our Service, you may be asked to log in to a social network using your social network credentials (for example, your Facebook user ID). When you log in, we may collect information about you (including personal information) from that social network. In addition, when you use one of the social network sharing tools available on our Service, the social network operating the tool may collect information about you based on such use. The social network’s use of that information will be subject to its own privacy policy, which may be different from ours.
Non-Personally Identifying Information. This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the site. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of www.massport.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Google Analytics features implemented on this site include Display Advertising (Demographics and Interest Reporting). We use data from Google's Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics only to maintain this site’s functionality, responsiveness and improve content. CMG uses the Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting feature to identify trends in the usage of its website which may be published in reports for internal use.
Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics regarding your visits to this site is restricted by the. You may opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customer Display Network ads using The Google Analytics tool uses “cookies” which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity. At any time, you may choose to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking with the Information You Post. Please remember that anything you post to any message boards, discussion or comment areas, or social networking services on our Service can be seen, collected, and used by anyone who has access to that board, area, or social networking service.
We cannot control how your postings may be used by third parties with such access. Statistical Information. Much of the information we collect is in the form of aggregated statistics, such as the traffic that visits various pages within our Service, and the habits and preferences of our audience. Such aggregated information does not include any information that would identify you personally. We may use such aggregated information and disclose it to any third parties as we see fit.
Mobile Applications and Location-Based Information. Our Service may have the ability to use your geographic location to deliver content, services, and advertising tailored to your location. If you choose to enable our Service to use your location information, then that information will be stored and used to deliver content, services, and advertising tailored to your location. Also, when you use a mobile device or browser to access our Service, then your device and/or your browser may automatically collect and/or transmit your device’s unique identifier, IP address, location information, device make/model, wireless provider, and related information to us and our Service Providers. We and our Service Providers may use this information to deliver content, services, and advertising tailored to your location. Data Collected in Connection with Ad Serving and Targeting. We use third-party Service Providers, such as ad networks, to serve advertising to you when you use our Service or use other sites or applications.
These Service Providers may use information about your activities while you navigate through and use this Service and other web sites and applications (and that the Service Providers collect through cookies) to provide you with advertisements about products and services that they think may be of interest to you. The information used by these Service Providers for these purposes generally does not identify you personally (in other words, the Service Providers are not usually using your name, address, email address, or phone number for these purposes, although they may use your IP address, your geographic location, or your device’s unique identifier). You can learn more about such data collection practices, and/or opt out of any use by our Service Providers’ of cookies to tailor advertising to your interests, by visiting aboutads.info.
CMG’s Adherence to Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. CMG adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising of the Digital Advertising Alliance. To learn more about the Principles and your choices when it comes to the use of online behavioral advertising data by advertisers and ad servers across the Internet, visit aboutads.info. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION Why We Collect Information From You. Like any business, it's important for us to know our customers - their needs, their likes, what they want and expect from us.
Unlike most businesses, however, we deliver a valuable product to our customers without asking for anything in return. Since we make most of this Service available without charge to you, we rely heavily on advertisers to produce the income necessary to operate our Service. Advertisers are like most people: They expect something in return for the money they spend. They want to know how many people will see their ad and how often our users are looking at their ads on our Service - in other words, how effective their ad is likely to be. So it's important that we be able to tell advertisers who our audience is. Except as expressly set forth in this privacy statement, we will not provide, sell or rent to any third party any personally identifying information that we collect from you through your use of this Service.
Without your permission, we will not share the personally-identifying information you provide when registering on our Service with advertisers. We may, however, take the information you provide and aggregate it with data from all the other people that use this Service and associated services. Then we will use that pool of information to inform our advertisers about our audience without identifying you personally.
Service Providers. All or portions of our Service may be provided or supported by our third-party service providers ('Service Providers'), and we may share any of the information that we collect from you through our Service (e.g., anonymous information collected through cookies on your browser, information you submit to us to enter a contest, sweepstakes or promotion offered through the Service, etc.) with such Service Providers. In the event we offer services through this Service such as chat, email newsletters, email services, online classifieds and/or similar services, such services may be made available through cooperative arrangements with providers that specialize in operating such services.
In some instances, our Service Providers will have the same access to your information as we do. Their use of the information will be subject to the terms of their respective privacy policies. Contest Co-Sponsors. If you enter any contest, sweepstakes or other promotion that we make available through this Service, we may share the information you submit to us with the co-sponsor(s) of the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. We will identify any co-sponsor(s) in the official rules for the promotion. Our Affiliates. We may share any of the information that we collect from you (including anonymous information and personally identifying information that you may provide) with the other CMG Affiliate Sites within the CMG Network of Sites so that we and they can provide you with products and services that may be of interest to you.
Sites to Which We Link. Our Service includes links to plenty of other websites, and provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we don't control. When you access another site or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions through their sites, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy statement of the operator of the site you're visiting or the provider of such products or services.
Other Disclosures. We reserve the right to release information about users of our Service when release is necessary or appropriate to comply with law, to enforce this privacy statement or our visitor agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of users of our Service, the public, our customers, or our company and its employees, agents, partners and Affiliates.
As our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that we merge with another entity or otherwise transfer substantially all of our assets to another entity (including, without limitation, to one of our Affiliates as part of an internal reorganization), information collected from this Service would be among the transferred assets. SHOPPING When you purchase products and/or services through our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain information, including your contact details (such as your name, address, telephone and email), and your billing information (such as your credit card number and the date that your card expires). We may also ask you to provide additional information such as unique identifiers (such as your date of birth), and registration information (login name and password). We will use the information you provide us to process your transaction and to contact you regarding your purchase if necessary. We will share this information with our Service Providers to the extent necessary to facilitate your purchase (for purposes such as customer service, verification, fulfillment and billing purposes). We will not sell or rent your personal billing information to any third party.
We may share non-financial information with our Service Providers in accordance with this privacy statement. OPTING IN/OPTING OUT In certain places on this Service (for example, when registering as a user of this Service, managing your account, shopping, or participating in activities like promotional contests), we may ask you to consent to the sharing of your information with third parties with which we have business relationships.
If you provide such consent (for example, by checking a box or by some other means), we will make your information available to such third parties as described in the consent form so that they, we, or both may contact you directly regarding special offers, promotions, products or services that may be of interest to you. If you register with this Service, you will have the opportunity to review or update the information you have provided us at any time. You also have the option of deleting all information except for your email address. If you would like to completely deactivate your account, please contact us. Please note, however, that if you deactivate your account, you will not receive any newsletters from us and you will not be able to participate in any of our sweepstakes or contests.
Also, even if you deactivate your account, you still need to go through a separate process to unsubscribe from any SMS alerts you previously signed up to receive. You can unsubscribe from these alerts by using the “STOP” function within those messages. You agree that, subject to applicable law, we may use your information to contact you for customer service, to inform you of important changes or additions to our Service or the services offered over our Service and to send you administrative notices or any communications relevant to your use of our Service. If you have subscribed to one of our email newsletters, you will always have the opportunity to unsubscribe from future mailings (for example, by clicking on an unsubscribe link in an email newsletter or by modifying your account settings on our Service).
If you have submitted your information on a page provided in conjunction with one of our Service Providers, the information you submit may be jointly maintained by us and the Service Provider. If you decide to opt out of our Service, you may also need to contact the Service Provider separately to request the Service Provider to remove your information from its database. DATA SECURITY All information gathered through our Service is stored within database(s) operated by us or by a Service Provider on our behalf. We and/or our Service Providers secure the personally identifying information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For e-commerce transactions where you provide sensitive financial data (e.g., credit card information) to us via this Service, we transmit your billing information using encryption. Encryption scrambles your credit card number and personal information. However, no security system is impenetrable.
We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. A NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN'S PRIVACY This Service is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we won't knowingly allow anyone under age 13 to register with our Service or to provide any other personally identifying information. If you’re under 13, please do not provide us with any personally identifying information about yourself (such as your name, your email address or your phone number). If we become aware that we have collected any personally identifying information from a user under the age of 13, we will remove such information from our records as soon as possible.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT We may change the terms of this privacy statement or introduce new terms and conditions from time to time, in which case we will post an updated version of this privacy statement on this Service and will update the “Last Updated” date above to reflect the date the changes take effect. By continuing to use this Service after we post any such changes, you accept this privacy statement, as modified. Political consultant Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, appeared in court Friday as a judge considered whether to order Stone not to publicly speak about the case against him.
Read more trending news Stone, who faces charges of obstruction, giving false statements and witness tampering, appeared before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday, three days after he pleaded not guilty to charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. More on Robert Mueller's investigation Berman Jackson said in court Friday that she is still considering whether to issue a gag order in the case, according to BuzzFeed News. Berman Jackson also presides over Mueller’s case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and issued a similar gag order in that matter after a lawyer for Manafort addressed reporters after his first court appearance. Mueller investigation: Paul Manafort appears in court after allegedly lying to investigators Since his arrest Jan. 25 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Stone has been outspoken in proclaiming his innocence and criticizing Mueller’s team, which he has accused of targeting him because of his politics.
Who is Roger Stone, what links him to Trump? In an indictment unsealed last week, investigators alleged Stone misled lawmakers about his pursuit of Democratic emails that were published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks during the run-up to the 2016 election.
Authorities say the emails were stolen from Democrats by Russian operatives. The indictment does not charge Stone with conspiring with WikiLeaks or with the Russian officers. Instead, it accuses him of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements about his interactions related to WikiLeaks' release. Mueller investigation: Former Trump adviser Roger Stone pleads not guilty “I am not accused of Russian collusion, I am not accused of collaboration with WikiLeaks, I am not accused of conspiracy,” Stone said. “There is no evidence or accusation that I knew in advance about the source or content of the WikiLeaks material.” White House officials said last week that the charges against Stone “have nothing to do with the president, nothing to do with the White House.” READ: The full indictment of Roger Stone by special counsel Robert Mueller In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors with Mueller’s office said the FBI seized physical devices from his home, apartment and office.
They said multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information have been recovered, including bank and financial records and the contents of numerous phones and computers. Stone is the sixth Trump aide to be charged in connection with Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and its possible ties to Trump campaign officials.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. A Kentucky man has been charged with child abuse after authorities say he punished his two children by forcing them to do pushups for 30 minutes straight and making them eat soap.
James Pal Kidwell, 40, of Mount Vernon, was booked into the Rockcastle County Detention Center on a charge of first-degree criminal abuse of a child. Jail records showed he remained there Friday in lieu of $10,000 bond. WKYT in Lexington reported that Kidwell was arrested Monday on allegations that he abused his two children, ages 11 and 13, for breaking rules and talking back.
One form of the alleged abuse was 30 continuous minutes of pushups, during which one of the children suffered rug burns. One of the children also developed mouth sores after Kidwell allegedly made them eat soap, the news station reported. Kidwell also left a bruise on one child’s chest after punching him. Read more trending news Police officials said Kidwell would also force the children to stand a couple of steps away from a wall and lean into the wall with their foreheads. They were forced to stand like that for 30 minutes, authorities said.
The alleged abuse was ongoing over a span of about four days, WKYT reported. It was not clear how police officials learned of the incidents. Chicago police are asking for the public’s help after “Empire” star Jussie Smollett reported he was attacked in the predawn hours Tuesday by two men who were shouting racial and homophobic slurs at him, according to authorities. Read more trending news Smollett was hospitalized Tuesday after the attack, which police are investigating as a possible hate crime. Update 1:15 p.m. 1: In his first public comments since Tuesday’s reported attack, Smollett said he’s “OK” and thanked the public for the its support.
“My body is strong but my soul is stronger,” Smollett said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press and several other outlets. “I am working with authorities and have been 100 (percent) factual and consistent on every level. Despite my frustrations and deep concern with certain inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have been spread, I still believe that justice will be served.” Smollett told officers he was attacked around 2 a.m.
Tuesday by two men as he was walking downtown near the Chicago River. He said they yelled that he was in “MAGA country,” an apparent reference to President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make American Great Again,” and that they hit him in the face, poured an “unknown substance” on him and wrapped a rope around his neck, the AP reported.
Authorities continue to investigate the case. Update 10 p.m. 31: Chicago police told NBC Thursday that Smollett has not turned over his phone to detectives. “Both the victim and his manager have made statements to detectives that they were on the phone with each other. We were not able to independently verify that because they did not turn over cellphone records to police when asked,” police said in an email to the Chicago Tribune.
Detectives, who are investigating the case as a possible hate crime, have watched hundreds of hours of footage from private and public surveillance cameras, but gaps remain and they still haven’t seen video of the attack or men who match Smollett’s description of his assailants, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. Update 3:45 p.m. 31: Smollett’s family called Tuesday’s attack a “racial, homophobic hate crime” in a statement released Thursday to TMZ. “We want people to understand these targeted hate crimes are happening to our sisters, brothers and our gender non-conforming siblings,” the statement said. “These are inhumane acts of domestic terrorism and they should be treated as such.” Smollett told officers his assailants struck around 2 a.m. Tuesday as he was walking downtown near the Chicago River. He said two men yelled that he was in “MAGA country,” an apparent reference to President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make American Great Again,” and that they hit him in the face, poured an “unknown substance” on him and wrapped a rope around his neck, The Associated Press reported.
Authorities continue to investigate the case. Update 3 p.m. 31: Speaking with reporters at the White House on Thursday, President Donald Trump called the reported attack on Smollett horrible. “I've seen it. I think that's horrible,” the president said.
“It doesn't get worse, as far as I'm concerned.” Smollett told officers he was attacked early Tuesday morning by a pair of men as he was walking downtown, near the Chicago River. He said the men yelled that he was in “MAGA country,” an apparent reference to Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make American Great Again,” and that they hit him in the face, poured an “unknown substance” on him and wrapped a rope around his neck, The Associated Press reported. Police continue to investigate. Update 11:50 a.m.
31: Police continued Thursday to comb through surveillance video from near the area where Smollett reported he had been attacked in hopes of finding footage of the incident, The Associated Press reported. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the AP detectives recovered additional video of Smollett in downtown Chicago before and after the reported attack.
Guglielmi said officers were combing through footage from some of the hundreds of surveillance cameras in the area on Thursday but he said their efforts were hampered by the variety of private and public surveillance systems used in the area and their sometimes differing timestamps. “It’s like putting together a puzzle,” he told the AP.
Update: 11 p.m. 30: Detectives have reviewed surveillance footage of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment, but so far none of the video shows him being attacked by two masked men, although investigators have obtained images of people they would like to question, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted photos of the “persons of interest” Wednesday evening. Investigators “for the most part” can confirm the route Smollett took early Tuesday when he says he was attacked along a street in the Streeterville neighborhood after visiting a sandwich shop, Guglielmi said. However, there are gaps, and none of the footage shows an attack, he said, although the review is ongoing. Update: 6:40 p.m.
30: Police are expected to release surveillance video of two “persons of interest” in the attack early Tuesday morning on actor Jussie Smollett, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Until now, detectives had said they were not able to release a description of Smollett’s attackers because they couldn’t find enough evidence after reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance video from the surrounding area. Now they say two individuals are wanted for questioning in the crime. Update 11:30 a.m. 30: Police continued Wednesday to search for video that might show Smollett’s assailants. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Tuesday night that authorities were combing through video footage, but that, “Thus far, no video of the alleged assailants or a vehicle has been discovered.” The only relevant image police have found thus far was footage taken from a security camera in a Subway restaurant near the scene of the reported attack, according to CNN. In the image, Smollett appears to be standing alone, the news network reported.
Smollett told officers his assailants struck around 2 a.m. Tuesday as he was walking downtown near the Chicago River. He said two men yelled that he was in “MAGA country,” an apparent reference to President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make American Great Again,” and that they hit him in the face, poured an “unknown substance” on him and wrapped a rope around his neck, The Associated Press reported. Guglielmi told the AP that Smollett still had a rope around his neck when officers first made contact with him after the attack.
Update 6:05 p.m. 29: So far, investigators “have not found anything to be able (to) put out a description” of the two suspects who Smollett said attacked him while he was walking down a city street early Tuesday morning, according to Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Guglielmi said they have not found any evidence to help identify the perpetrators. In a follow-up police interview Tuesday, Smollett told detectives that the attackers yelled “MAGA country,” according to WLS-TV, referring to President Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again.” Smollett did not mention that in his initial police interview, authorities said. Police also have a rope that was wrapped around Smollett’s neck during the attack, which they said will undergo testing. Original story: In a statement released Tuesday, police did not identify any of the people involved in the incident beyond saying it “involved a cast member of the television show ‘Empire.’” Smollett, 36, and a representative of 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment confirmed later to CNN that the incident had taken place.
'We are deeply saddened and outraged to learn that a member of our 'Empire' family, Jussie Smollett, was viciously attacked last night,' a 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment representative told the news network. 'We send our love to Jussie, who is resilient and strong, and we will work with law enforcement to bring these perpetrators to justice. The entire studio, network and production stands united in the face of any despicable act of violence and hate - and especially against one of our own.' CNN reported Smollett was “in good condition” after the attack, though he was also “shaken and angry that an attack like this could happen.” Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi described the incident as a “possible racially-charged assault.” Smollett came out as gay in 2015 during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” according to The Huffington Post. His sexuality might have played a role in the attack, according to entertainment news site TMZ.
Police told WBBM-TV that Smollett was walking on E. Lower Water Street when he was approached by two people who were yelling racial and homophobic slurs. “The offenders then attacked the victim with their hands and poured an unknown chemical substance on the him,” WBBM-TV reported. “A rope was also wrapped around the victim’s neck.” The offenders ran from the scene and Smollett took himself to Northwestern Hospital, where he was treated and released later Tuesday, according to the news station and TMZ. “Given the severity of the allegations, we are taking this investigation very seriously and treating it as a possible hate crime,” Guglielmi said.
“Detectives are currently working to gather video, identify potential witnesses and establish an investigative timeline.” On AJC.com: Jussie Smollett chats debut album and ‘Empire’ during Atlanta visit Officials continue to investigate. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Only on Orlando’s Morning News with Joe Kelley You don’t usually have to look too far to find fun things to do around Central Florida, and we’ve got you covered by selecting the best of the best each week. Estee talks through our top weekend picks early Friday morning on Orlando’s Morning News with Joe Kelley. IcFlorida Fun 3: 44th Annual Mount Dora Arts Festival For 44 years the Mount Dora Arts Festival has been an art staple in the Central Florida community with over 250 of the best and brightest artists from all over the country, family activities, and entertainment scattered through the streets of quaint Downtown Mount Dora. Rock the Universe Florida’s biggest Christian music festival is back at Universal Studios Florida with two nights of powerful music from today’s most popular Christian artists, a jam-packed FanZone, attractions, and moving worship services. Rock the Universe is a separately ticketed special event.
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You may bring a dinner picnic basket and seating. Alcohol is permitted.
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