ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of a suburban Chicago man who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2009 stabbing deaths of his girlfriend’s father, sister and grandmother.

The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald (http://bit.ly/1mAfpCe ) reports that 57 potential jurors were being questioned on Tuesday in a Rolling Meadows courthouse to select 12 jurors and two alternates in the trial of D’andre Howard.

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