Retiree Remembered

Both the Tribune and Sun Times must be hard up for stories, writing mostly sympathetic stories about Officer Hornowski's murder in Arkansas:

• (Tribune) A man who spent decades as a Chicago police officer has been killed in rural Arkansas.
  
  Chester Hornowski, 71, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in a residence in Mountain Home, Ark., on Dec. 5, according to the Baxter County Sheriff’s office. A man who attempted to flee the scene in a pickup truck as officers arrived was arrested after the truck crashed into a police vehicle, authorities said.
  
  
• (Sun Times) Chester Hornowski survived tours of duty as a Marine in Vietnam and 34 years as a patrol officer on the streets of Chicago — not to mention a long line of bouts on the city’s unforgiving political scene.
  
  But it was in rural Arkansas where the 71-year-old retiree’s generosity likely led to his fatal shooting earlier this month, authorities say.

He's been dead for three weeks, and the media is just discovering this? And giving it wide play on Christmas Day, probably the least read print run all year. We guess we should be glad they're printing anything at all since they even managed to sneak in his supposed work for aldercreature Mell.