News in Brief

DNA CONFIRMS SEVERED BODY PARTS FROM ONE MAN

The severed upper and lower portions of a male body found three weeks apart earlier this year in two northwest suburbs are from the same man, police said Tuesday. DNA testing completed Aug. 20 confirmed the two body halves are from one person, but police investigating the bizarre slaying said they still haven't identified the murdered man. Police now are enlisting the FBI to try to reconstruct the man's facial features based on the remains of his skull, Arlington Heights police said. The man's lower body -- cleanly severed just above the pelvis -- was discovered April 16 in a plastic bag outside an apartment complex trash container in Arlington Heights. On May 6, a decomposed upper section of a male body was found in a Cook County forest preserve near Des Plaines.

MOSQUITO SPRAYING TODAY

The city will continue its efforts against West Nile virus today by spraying portions of the West and Northwest sides. Spraying will be in the Austin and Belmont Cragin neighborhoods where city Department of Public Health traps recently yielded mosquitoes carrying the virus.