Soldier slain in Afghanistan returned home to Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) — The body of a 24-year-old U.S. soldier slain last month in Afghanistan has been returned to his hometown of Chicago.
Spc. Michael Isaiah Nance’s remains were flown Friday to Midway Airport before being taken to a South Side funeral home.
Nance and 20-year-old Pfc. Brandon Jay Kreischer of Stryker, Ohio, died July 29 of wounds sustained in a combat-related incident in Tarin Kowt, in southern Afghanistan. U.S. officials have said two paratroopers were killed when an Afgh