"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Bomb from World War II detonated on purpose

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT

This is not a test. This is a video of an actual World War II-era, American-made bomb going off in the center of Munich, Germany. According to its description on YouTube, the explosive was discovered on Monday night by workers at the site of a building that was being demolished. Officials realized that the 550-pound [...]

Louisiana father-son team rescues 120 from flooding

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Jesse Shaffer and His Father Rescue Victims Stranded by Hurricane Isaac

La. official: Levee will be breached amid flooding

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:44 PM PDT

A state official says the levee in southeast Louisiana's Isaac-flooded Plaquemines Parish will be breached to relieve pressure on it.

8 hurt when car crashes into crowd near LA school

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:29 PM PDT

A car sped onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of parents and children outside a South Los Angeles elementary school Wednesday afternoon, and eight people were hurt, six of them seriously, authorities said.

Court: Zimmerman judge should disqualify himself

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:57 PM PDT

A three-judge panel in Florida has ruled that a former neighborhood watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin should be granted a new judge in his case.

President Obama participates in surprise Reddit chat

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT

Obama on RedditPresident Obama made a surprise appearance online on Wednesday, participating in a live chat on Reddit.com. "Hi, I'm Barack Obama, President of the United States," Obama wrote in a message on the site. "Ask me anything." The post prompted immediate skepticism about its authenticity, so the commander in tweet offered some proof, posting a message [...]

Reputed mobster sentenced to 9 years in robbery plots

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT

Reputed mobster Joseph Scalise and an associate were each sentenced today to 9 years in prison for plotting to rob an armored car and to break into the family home of a deceased Chicago Outfit boss.

EXCLUSIVE: 500-year-old Da Vinci sculpture unveiled

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:14 PM PDT

A metal casting of a  504-year-old Leonardo Da Vinci beeswax sculpture was unveiled to the world in a special ceremony in Los Angeles. "Horse and Rider" is the only known three-dimensional piece of art created by Leonardo to still exist in the world and one of only about two-dozen authenticated Leonardo works in the world [...]

Officials may breach levee as Isaac storms inland

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:28 PM PDT

A man and woman walk through flood waters on St. Roch ave. as Hurricane Isaac makes land fall in New Orleans, LouisianaNewly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on Wednesday, inundating parts of a mostly rural area southeast of New Orleans, while in the city, on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, levees were so far holding.

NYC man gets 40 years to life for dismembering boy

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:19 PM PDT

A hardware store clerk was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering a lost little boy, bringing an end to a gruesome crime that horrified a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.

Ann Romney urges Hispanic voters to get past 'their biases'

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:38 AM PDT

Tampa, Fla. -- Ann Romney's convention speech was directly aimed at wooing female voters, but at a lunch event Wednesday she changed her focus and pitched her husband to Hispanic voters.

Romance at the RNC: Man proposes to girlfriend onstage

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:18 PM PDT

It looks as if Ann Romney's message from Tuesday night — that this is about love — struck a chord.

Rudy Giuliani: Election between ‘Mr. Cool’ and ‘Mr. Competent’

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accompanied by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani speaks to the media after touring New York Fire Department Engine 24 Ladder 5, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)TAMPA—Voters should consider "competence" over "cool" when deciding who to support for president in November, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday. Giuliani stopped by the media filing center near the Republican National Convention site, where he told reporters that voters "made a big mistake" by electing President Barack Obama in 2008. "If I [...]

NYC tops list of cities with ‘most spoiled kids’

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:51 AM PDT

New York City's borough of Manhattan tops a new list measuring which cities spend the most on their children. The data was compiled by Bundle, which compared spending habits on young children against the national average. Another New York City borough is also home to the second "most spoiled" location on the list, Brooklyn. Miami [...]

Peterson trial: Defense rests; Peterson won't testify

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT

Drew Peterson told Judge Edward Burmila he will not take the witness stand. Later, defense attorneys rested their case. Court is adjourned until Thursday.

Ex-Motorola worker gets 4 years for stealing secrets

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:13 AM PDT

A former Motorola software engineer who lived in Schaumburg was sentenced today to four years in prison for stealing trade secrets from the company. Hanjuan Jin was found guilty in February on three counts of theft of trade secrets.

S&P lowers Illinois credit rating over pensions

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:22 AM PDT

Continuing pension problems have earned Illinois another reduction in its credit rating. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services announced today that it is lowering Illinois' rating a notch.

'Worst year ever': Number of West Nile cases sets record

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:47 AM PDT

A total of 1,590 U.S. cases of West Nilevirus, including 66 deaths, have been reported through late August this year, the highest human toll reported, according to the CDC.

Photos: Spanish town's annual 'Tomatina' tomato fight

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:45 PM PDT

Photos: Spanish town's annual 'Tomatina' tomato fightTens of thousands of people have splatted each other with 120 tons of tomatoes during the annual `Tomatina' battle, leaving the eastern Spanish town of Bunol in a sea of red mush. (Aug. 29)

How major storms get their names

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:28 AM PDT

In the best case scenario, a storm is never named. It putters out well before it reaches land, or if on land, it's just a lot of rain, a regular annoying damp day but nothing dangerous, definitely not a hurricane, and no one is any the wiser. That storm hasn't hurt even a flea, that we know of. Other times storms start small and rise to an occasion of terror, becoming quite powerful and doing dreadful things. Sometimes they do a little damage, and sometimes it's so much it takes many years of recovery. ...