Today’s Headlines for Friday, February 16
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• Ventra app freezing? Metra payment issues resurface once again in Chicagoland (NBC)
• Car driver dies after slamming into the back of semi around 7:39 PM on westbound Eisenhower near Oak Park Ave. in Oak Park (CBS)
• Driver traveling northbound in southbound lanes of DLSD around 4:15 AM near Washington seriously injures another motorist and flees on foot (NBC)
• Boy, 16, arrested on or near near 51st/Red Line for allegedly being one of three people who robbed man, 27, on 1/30 on train near Garfield station (CBS)
• NextDoor user posting false info about supposed Dickens Greenway-related crashes, using it to urge residents to complain to Ald. Knudsen (Jeremy Glover)
• CTA: Beat the “winter blues” by using our trains and buses to get to weekend events
• Not kosher: Would-be prawn star tried to join the Crustacean Nation by pouring shrimp on an ‘L’ car seat, eating them, and leaving shells behind (NBC)
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