One person was shot on Thursday when gunfire erupted inside a Wal-Mart store in a Chicago suburb, police in Illinois said.

Police in Darien, a small city about 30 miles (48 km) outside of Chicago, received reports of shots fired inside the store on Thursday afternoon, Deputy Chief John Cooper said.

Officers arrived to find one victim with a single gunshot wound to the shoulder who was taken to a local hospital for treatment, Cooper said.

Police said the wound was non-life-threatening.

Cooper

Waller County, Texas, has had a complicated racial history since the days when it was a part of Mexico. At one of its first settlements, Bernardo Plantation, about 100 slaves grew cotton on  a large farm on the banks of the Brazos. Yet in the years before Texas fought Mexico for its independence, the area became a magnet for free blacks from elsewhere in the South who sought a welcoming home. 

The messy, confusing double legacy of that history has persisted to the present, most recently embo

Last week, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was fined more than $11,000 and penalized for apparently using inappropriate language on the field. On Sunday, FoxSports offered new details on the incident. 

Referees told Fox’s Jay Glazer that Kaepernick said the n-word during a skirmish with the Chicago Bears’ LaMarr Houston. Kaepernick denied any wrongdoing.

“It will be appealed,” he said, per the Associated Press. “I didn’t say anything.”

49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said that he had no reason to

The NFL goes pink each October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.(Photo: Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports)

Mary Jo Kane, a lifelong Chicago Bears fan and college professor, settles in to watch a football game and finds herself taking a tally of the players — one she’d rather not do, but can’t help.

Have any of these guys committed a crime? Tried to strangle a wife? Knocked one out? Beaten a child?

The NFL has an image problem. Some would say it’s at a moral crossroads as focus on abuse alleg