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- Charges: Cue to kill pregnant teen was song 'I Hate You'
- Bears trade up, draft Oregon State's Paea in 2nd round
- Court restores NFL lockout
- Photos: Flooding in downstate Illinois >> Video
- Court restores NFL lockout
- Obama meets with Giffords at Kennedy Space Center
- Court: Stem cell research can continue to get federal funding
- Teen held in Pink Line spree
- Marist student dies playing basketball
- Obama views 'heartbreaking' tornado destruction
- Guillen gets 2-game suspension, regrets tweeting
- Groupon won't run ads on 'The Apprentice'
- Marchers swarm Damascus after Syrian crackdown
- Libyan fighting spills into Tunisia
- Obama tours tornado devastation
- Obama tours tornado devastation, vows aid
- Soccer player slain
- 911 tape released in Arlington Heights slaying
- Low-key anniversary 4 years after Lisa Stebic's disappearance
- Charges: Cue to kill pregnant teen was song 'I Hate You'
Charges: Cue to kill pregnant teen was song 'I Hate You' Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:21 PM PDT Pregnant woman killed by unborn child's father and his girlfriend, authorities allege A few weeks before she was expected to deliver a girl, Rosemary Newman held on to hope that she eventually would reconcile with her estranged boyfriend, said Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart. |
Bears trade up, draft Oregon State's Paea in 2nd round Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:44 PM PDT If the Chicago Bears did not get Gabe Carimi in the first round Thursday night, they were poised to choose Oregon State defensive tackle Stephen Paea. |
Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:34 PM PDT EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — A federal appeals court threw the NFL back into chaos late Friday, putting a judge's order lifting the lockout on hold. |
Photos: Flooding in downstate Illinois >> Video Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:10 PM PDT Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has activated the National Guard to help with flooding in southern Illinois. Heavy rains have caused the Mississippi River to rise 12 feet above flood stage. Here are images of the flooded areas downstate. |
Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:58 PM PDT The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restores NFL lockout, grants request for temporary stay. |
Obama meets with Giffords at Kennedy Space Center Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:45 PM PDT President Obama meets with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, shuttle commander Mark Kelly, after technical issues prevent Endeavour's launch There was no shuttle launch to see, but President Obama's trip to Cape Canaveral on Friday did include a meeting with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), his first since he saw her in a Tucson hospital just after a January shooting that nearly took her life. |
Court: Stem cell research can continue to get federal funding Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:34 PM PDT Scientists hail the decision as a victory for medical progress. The ruling reverses a lower court's stance that using federal money to study human embryonic stem cells appeared to violate a congressional ban on funding of research in 'which embryos are destroyed.' WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court cleared the way Friday for continued federal funding of research using human embryonic stem cells, a ruling that scientists hailed as a victory for medical progress. |
Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:15 PM PDT A 15-year-old boy has been charged as an adult in a string of daylight armed robberies on the CTA Pink Line earlier this month, prosecutors said today. |
Marist student dies playing basketball Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:18 PM PDT Paul Simmons Jr., 17, was ready to attend prom and graduate from Marist High School, then head to Spring Hill College. But his bright future came to an end when he died today after collapsing while playing basketball. |
Obama views 'heartbreaking' tornado destruction Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:09 AM PDT 'I've never seen devastation like this,' President Obama says in Tuscaloosa. Shortly after he visits the neighborhood of Alberta, rescuers discover several survivors in an apartment building, including a young woman with cerebral palsy. As officials across the South continued the grim business of counting the dead and caring for the survivors, President Obama on Friday toured some of the areas in Alabama hit hardest by tornadoes. |
Guillen gets 2-game suspension, regrets tweeting Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:26 PM PDT Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said he was sorry "about two minutes later" for tweeting during the game about umpires, a deed that will cost him a two-game suspension and a $20,000 fine. |
Groupon won't run ads on 'The Apprentice' Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:06 AM PDT Groupon issued a snarky reply on its blog Thursday in response to a viral online petition that urged the company not to sponsor the TV show "The Apprentice" over the political views of its star Donald Trump. |
Marchers swarm Damascus after Syrian crackdown Posted: 29 Apr 2011 10:00 AM PDT Tens of thousands fill the streets of cities across Syria -- and for the first time, the capital of Damascus – after weekly prayers to defy the regime of President Bashar Assad. The protests suggest that the use of extreme force has failed and perhaps outraged some on the sidelines. Tens of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets of the capital, Damascus, and other cities after weekly prayers Friday, overcoming an official campaign of violence and intimidation to deliver a powerful message of defiance against the regime of President Bashar Assad. |
Libyan fighting spills into Tunisia Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:54 AM PDT Tensions are high as the Tunisian Foreign Ministry condemns the shelling of its territory, an outgrowth of battles between rebel forces and Moammar Kadafi loyalists across the border in western Libya. The fighting has 'caused deaths and injuries of many people,' the Tunisian news agency says. Fighting in western Libya has spread across the border into Tunisia, where tensions were high Friday after the Foreign Ministry condemned the shelling of its territory and demanded that the Libyan government "take immediate steps to put an end to these violations." |
Obama tours tornado devastation Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:27 PM PDT As officials across the South continued the grim business of counting the dead and caring for the survivors, President Obama today toured some of the areas in Alabama hardest hit by tornadoes. |
Obama tours tornado devastation, vows aid Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:24 AM PDT President Obama arrives in Tuscaloosa after flying over the hard-hit region. 'We're going to make sure you're not forgotten,' he tells residents. About 300 people are known dead in the South, with 210 of them in Alabama. As officials across the South continued the grim business of counting the dead and caring for the survivors, President Obama on Friday toured some of the areas in Alabama hardest hit by tornadoes. |
Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:00 PM PDT Those who knew Kabiru Adewunmi could easily imagine the 16-year-old flashing his pearl-white smile as he and five friends from his native Nigeria walked to a convenience store after celebrating a playoff win Tuesday night by the Chicago Bulls . |
911 tape released in Arlington Heights slaying Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:22 AM PDT In newly released 911 calls, the sister-in-law of George Nellessen describes how his girlfriend found the terrible scene that launched a police chase and the eventual arrest of Nellessen's own son for his murder. |
Low-key anniversary 4 years after Lisa Stebic's disappearance Posted: 29 Apr 2011 10:03 AM PDT About a half dozen of Lisa Stebic's closest friends will gather today to pray and reflect at a cream colored gazebo in a park adjacent to the Plainfield woman's home, but this is the first anniversary since the woman's disappearance in 2007 that no public vigil or ceremony is being held in her honor. |
Charges: Cue to kill pregnant teen was song 'I Hate You' Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:35 PM PDT A Calumet City man and his longtime girlfriend conspired to kill a woman who was carrying his child so he would not have to be a father, police and prosecutors said today. |
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