Case dismissed against man in beating of Chicago officer
(World News USA)

CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors dropped a gun charge against a Chicago man implicated in the 2014 beating of an off-duty police sergeant after the case unraveled amid questions about the actions of the sergeant and two other officers who were with him. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Cook County prosecutors released Joseph Baskins from jail, saying they couldn’t prove their case stemming from an October 2014 confrontation in a parking garage. Records show that the three officers, who...