Young Transplant Patient Kidnapped

Story first appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times.
A 5-year-old Missouri boy taken from a hospital where he was on a transplant waiting list has been found safe in suburban Alsip.

St. Louis police have issued arrest warrants for the father and paternal grandmother.

The department issued a statement Wednesday saying it had issued felony warrants for kidnapping, interfering with custody and endangering the welfare of a child against 33-year-old father and his mother. A St. Louis Criminal Lawyer states that the man and his mother face some very serious charges, and their negligence could have killed the boy.

Authorities accuse the child's father of abducting his son from St. Louis Children’s Hospital on Tuesday. The hospital warned that the boy only had about a day’s worth of medication left in a portable IV when taken.

St. Louis police say Illinois State Police found the boy, his father and grandmother in Alsip, near Chicago, early Wednesday and that Porter seemed fine but was taken to a hospital.


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Union Pacific, Illinois Agree on High-Speed Passenger Rail Plan

Bloomberg / Business Week

Union Pacific Corp., the biggest U.S. railroad, and the state of Illinois agreed to begin construction of the first U.S. high-speed passenger rail route created with economic-stimulus money.

The company was among freight railroads operating in the U.S. that balked at May guidance from the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration that spelled out relationships between them and operators of high-speed passenger service on their tracks.

“Today’s announcement will create hundreds of jobs and is a major step towards making high-speed rail a reality in Illinois,” Governor Pat Quinn, a Democrat, said today in an e- mailed statement. “When the corridor is completed, travelers will be able to move from Chicago to St. Louis in under four hours.”

The Chicago-St. Louis route received $1.1 billion from last year’s $787 billion economic-stimulus package to help create faster passenger rail service. Illinois is the home state of President Barack Obama and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Union Pacific Chief Executive Officer James Young said the May U.S. guidance led the Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad to “basically stop” the project on the Chicago-St. Louis line. Since then, Young and other railroad executives met with LaHood about their concerns.

Rail and Illinois concrete contractors are due to begin work in September.