" Squeezing some family fun between campaign stops, Sen. Barack Obama kicks a soccer ball to his 10-year-old daughter Malia and, with a wink to a reporter on the sidelines, confides one of his wife Michelle's secret talents: "She is the best Hula-Hooper I know. Once she...
Five years ago, an unsuspecting feller named Steve Bartman took the pressure off Billy Goats everywhere in becoming the Chicago Cubs’ latest curse. During Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS, the glasses and headphone-donning...
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I had an article about napping few weeks back and how it is beneficial to combat daytime sleepiness. Between waking up late in the morning, caffeine, and 20 minute afternoon naps, napping is the best choice of...
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Story by patspen/photos by mikasi “War is an ugly thing,” said Mike Miles of Luck, Wisconsin, “and many people get displaced as a result. We've displaced ourselves to be part of this effort.” Miles, a...
Blame the DJ: a new French study has found that loud bar music makes people drink more and drink faster.""Previous research had shown that fast music can cause fast drinking, and that music versus no music can cause a person to spend more time in a bar," said Nicolas Gueguen,...
"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...
Another community says No to crack... Lynwood, a suburb of Chicago, has banned the wearing of saggy trousers. No more than three inches of exposed underwear. This ban, seen as targeting black teens, is just the...
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" "Hidden in plain sight" is theme of displays in San Diego and six other U.S. cities SAN DIEGO - As part of it's ongoing effort to raise public awareness about the plight of human trafficking victims in the United...
3:15 AM et Obama Lands, Security High " Journalists were asked by the Obama campaign to hold off from reporting that Obama would visit Afghanistan and Iraq prior to his trip abroad next week until he landed safely in the region — which his campaign informed us early this...
Do you like musical cinema? I bet you do. Some of the all time great movies of Hollywood are actually musical cinemas. Here is a list of top ten musical movies of Hollywood.
So it looks like this is going to be an annual event. Regular season NHL games played outdoor in a baseball or football field. I say, why not, it makes great television and it attracts crowds of people. They were...
Faced with threatened impeachment and embroiled in scandal, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich needs to solve the gang violence problem in Chicago, and he needs to do it now! So shouldn’t he turn to one-time community...
Grieving relatives who arrived at a funeral home to view the body of 91-year-old Lillian Grogan found another woman's body in the casket instead wearing Grogan's dress and favorite bracelet. The Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Stickney had incorrectly tagged the bodies of...
" NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Times says publisher David Hiller has resigned after 21 months at the helm of Tribune Co.'s largest paper. The news comes the same day Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski...
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