Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday January 19, 2016. If you had yesterday off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, welcome back to work.
- Mother and daughter found dead in NW Indiana
Velia Taneff, 86, and her daughter, Lana Taneff, 63, were found dead in Calumet Township with ligature marks on their necks. Both deaths have been ruled homicides. Velia was a former talk radio show host and a “local political activist, pundit, landlord and lifelong Democrat.” [Tribune]