"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Fire delays Metra trains

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 05:41 PM PST

Elected school board idea splits mayoral candidates

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:57 PM PST

Advocacy group favors putting control of Chicago Public Schools in hands of teachers, parents

Chicago's next mayor shouldn't control the city's public school system, a coalition of teachers, community leaders, parents and students said Wednesday, raising an idea that quickly splintered the major contenders for the office.

Homeless twin ill, brother missing

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 05:15 PM PST

Offers of help pour in after Tribune story

One of two homeless twins featured in the Tribune has been hospitalized with a blood clot, a condition discovered a day before the story ran when Anthony Nowotnik said the pair were rousted from their spot under a bridge. Scores of strangers offered to help, but social workers have been unable to find Frank since his brother was hospitalized.

Budget delay means $500M for defunct NASA program

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

The agency will spend nearly $500 million on the canceled program because Congress chose to extend the 2010 budget, which requires such funding.

Thanks to congressional inaction, NASA must continue to fund its defunct Ares I rocket program until March, a requirement that will cost the agency nearly $500 million at a time when it is struggling with the expensive task of replacing the space shuttle.

Fighting erupts in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

An airstrike kills at least five militants where Taliban fighters have been staging attacks, officials say. The region is where Osama bin Laden notoriously eluded U.S. capture in 2001.

Fighting between NATO forces and insurgents has erupted in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora, best known as the rugged labyrinth where Osama bin Laden evaded U.S. capture nine years ago.

Woman whose family inspired 'Sound of Music' dies at 97

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 05:09 PM PST

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Agathe von Trapp, a member of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for "The Sound of Music," has died, a longtime friend said Wednesday.

Andy Martin, 'king of birthers,' plans White House bid

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:30 PM PST

'I'll be driving the agenda in the Republican Party,' says Martin, a political gadfly who intends to make an issue of allegations that President Obama was not born in the U.S.

Andy Martin, a political gadfly who ran for President Obama's former Senate seat in 2010, announced Wednesday in New Hampshire that he will run for the Republican nomination for president on a "birther" platform.

Flight from O'Hare slides off runway in Wyoming

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 12:24 PM PST

Feds probing Christine O'Donnell's spending

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST

BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.

Suspected militants arrested in Denmark terror plot

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

The reported target is the Copenhagen newspaper that published cartoons in 2005 lampooning the prophet Muhammad. Suspects described as 'militant Islamists' are arrested in Sweden and Denmark.

Scandinavian authorities thwarted what they describe as a terrorist attack in Denmark targeting the newspaper that published the infamous caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, arresting five suspected Islamic militants Wednesday.

Snow response leaves NY mayor 'extremely dissatisfied'

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:02 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Big cot encampments and huge lines gave way to orderly, single-file queues and thawing tensions as flights left New York-area airports on time Wednesday, but clusters of tired, resigned passengers were still camped out waiting to go home.

Teacher coalition calls for elected school board

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST

Favre fined $50,000, but not suspended by NFL

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 10:14 PM PST

Lovers' quarrel ends in bitter court battle

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 06:40 PM PST

Judge set to rule on affair that went up in smoke

They are former lovers, not attorneys, but their bitter court battle ended Tuesday as they represented themselves in a trial involving an extramarital affair, $80,000 in credit card debt and allegations of a faked cancer diagnosis.

Moseley Braun: 'Nothing personal' but Weis must go

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:42 AM PST

Chase hiking fees on more banking services

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 09:21 AM PST

2 trapped in Michigan furniture store explosion

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:59 AM PST

A third person has been rescued and is in critical condition.

WAYNE, Mich. -- A furniture store in suburban Detroit exploded and collapsed Wednesday morning, leaving at least two people trapped in the rubble. A third person has been rescued and is in critical condition.

Warren Jeffs pleads not guilty to sexual assault, bigamy

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:44 AM PST

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs stood mute during an arraignment on bigamy and sexual assault charges and a West Texas court has entered not guilty pleas on his behalf.

Cash-back credit cards lead to more debt, Fed finds

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:03 AM PST

Man gets probation in dog-lawn murder

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST