Suspect in the robbery of a Niles bank. (FBI / February 9, 2013) ...
Iran says English-language TV channel dropped in North America
Label: LifestyleDUBAI (Reuters) – Iran‘s English-language Press TV channel has been dropped from the satellite platform that allowed it to broadcast in the United States and Canada, the channel said.The state-owned, 24-hour network broadcasts world news and pro-government views beyond Iran’s borders.Press TV had broadcast in North America on the Galaxy 19 satellite platform. The channel did not say when it was dropped.New...
In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen
Label: HealthAt least nine polio immunization workers were shot to death in northern Nigeria on Friday by gunmen who attacked two clinics, officials said. The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio. Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of...
Rosenthal: Chevrolet restores style to Impala name
Label: Business Because a brand embedded in our subconsciousness can find a space in our garage, the Impala endures.About 16 million Chevys named for an African antelope have hit the road since 1958. And even though the one you recently returned to the airport rental lot bore little resemblance the one whose "giddy-up" the Beach Boys sang of a half-century ago,...
Well: Think Like a Doctor: A Confused and Terrified Patient
Label: HealthThe Challenge: Can you solve the mystery of a middle-aged man recovering from a serious illness who suddenly becomes frightened and confused?Every month the Diagnosis column of The New York Times Magazine asks Well readers to sift through a difficult case and solve a diagnostic riddle. Below you will find a summary of a case involving a 55-year-old man well on his way to recovering from a series of...
S&C relay at center of Super Bowl outage
Label: Business An electrical relay device supplied by Rogers Park's S&C Electric Co. was found to be at the center of the Super Bowl power...
Feb
07
Attorney: Poisoned lottery winner changed finances to benefit wife
Label: World Weeks before he died mysteriously from cyanide poisoning after winning a $1 million lottery jackpot, a North Side businessman...
Keep breasts, buttocks under wraps, CBS tells Grammy performers
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Grammy performers have been told to cover up at Sunday’s big music awards show, and keep their buttocks, nipples and genitals under wraps. Their politics can’t show either.In a “wardrobe advisory,” broadcaster CBS also asked musicians and audience members likely to appear on camera at the February 10 Grammy Awards ceremony to avoid wearing brand names on T-shirts as well as...
Well: The 'Monday Morning' Medical Screaming Match
Label: HealthI did not think I would ever see another “morbidity and mortality” conference in which senior doctors publicly attacked their younger colleagues for making medical errors. These types of heated meetings were commonplace when I was a medical student but have largely been abandoned.Yet here they were again on “Monday Mornings,” a new medical drama on the TNT network, based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta,...
EveryBlock shuts down
Label: Business Hyper local news and social media site EveryBlock.com has shut down, the company said Thursday."Though EveryBlock has been able...
Feb
06
Woman convicted again in sledgehammer attack on couple
Label: World A woman was convicted for a second time today of beating her ex-husband and his new wife with a sledgehammer with the help of her teenaged lover – a case a prosecutor...
Kiefer Sutherland named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Kiefer Sutherland has gained his share of accolades throughout his acting career, but none quite like this.The “24″ star has been named 2013′s Man of the Year by Harvard University‘s Hasty Pudding Theatricals student society, succeeding “The Muppets” actor Jason Segel, who received the honors last year.Sutherland will be feted with a roast on Friday at Harvard’s Farkas...
Personal Health: Effective Addiction Treatment
Label: HealthCountless people addicted to drugs, alcohol or both have managed to get clean and stay clean with the help of organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous or the thousands of residential and outpatient clinics devoted to treating addiction.But if you have failed one or more times to achieve lasting sobriety after rehab, perhaps after spending tens of thousands of dollars, you’re not alone. And chances...
Chicago sees surge in foreclosure auctions
Label: Business More than 35,000 homes and small multifamily buildings in the Chicago area completed the foreclosure process last year, the...
Well: Warning Too Late for Some Babies
Label: HealthSix weeks after Jack Mahoney was born prematurely on Feb. 3, 2011, the neonatal staff at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., noticed that his heart rate slowed slightly when he ate. They figured he was having difficulty feeding, and they added a thickener to help.When Jack was discharged, his parents were given the thickener, SimplyThick, to mix into his formula. Two weeks later, Jack was back in the...
Deficit hits 5-year low, but cuts drag economy
Label: Business WASHINGTON -- The federal deficit will drop to less than $1 trillion for the first time in five years, but massive spending...
Feb
04
Alabama hostage standoff ends with gunman dead, boy safe
Label: World MIDLAND CITY, Ala. -- A man who killed a school bus driver and then held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in...
Live action: Twitter grabs Super Bowl spotlight
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce’s splashy show, a freak power outage, and —oh, yeah— a captivating game of football combined to generate a record 24.1 million posts on Twitter during Sunday night’s Super Bowl.That’s up from 13.7 million last year — and that doesn’t even include chatter surrounding the ads.Twitter said in a late Sunday blog post that about half of the more than 50 national TV spots that aired...
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