CTA Again?

These "isolated incidents" never seem to end:

• Prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old man and two juveniles in connection with a violent beating that left a 62-year-old man badly injured aboard a CTA bus last week.

  Larry Gilkey was riding a northbound bus in the 700 block of South Cicero Avenue when he was attacked around 5:30 p.m. on December 16, according to Chicago police and his relatives. A family member said Gilkey had gone out to buy cigarettes and one of the future attackers asked him for money so they could ride the bus. When Gilkey took out cash, another offender struck him, according to the relative.

  The confrontation quickly escalated into a group assault that left Gilkey critically injured. He was placed in a medically induced coma and has since been brought out of it, but CPD said he faces a long recovery.

Just another check mark in the denial of Federal money list.