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Losing Winfrey would be big blow for Second City

CHICAGO - Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago. "I used to live across the street ...

From DON BABWIN, AZ Central.com,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tom Cruise,  Katie Holmes,  Sarah Palin

Chicago police: No homicide in schools chief death

CHICAGO Chicago police said Wednesday that tests have revealed gunshot residue on the hand of Michael Scott – the strongest evidence yet that the president of the city's school board took his own life. In a news conference, Superintendent Jody Weis ...

From DON BABWIN, San Diego Union-Tribune,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Scott,  George Henderson (politician)

Probe continues in Chicago BOE president's death

CHICAGO - Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicide a day after an autopsy concluded he shot himself in the head. ...

From DON BABWIN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chicago Sun-Times,  Michael Scott,  Chicago Tribune,  Richard M. Daley,  Arne Duncan

File shows FBI watched writer Terkel for decades

CHICAGO - Long before the FBI identified him as a suspected communist and spent decades watching him and talking to confidential informants about him, late Chicago author Studs Terkel came to the agency for a job. ...

From DON BABWIN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Studs Terkel,  J. Edgar Hoover,  Wall Street Journal,  Paul Robeson

Rate of home burglaries is dropping

He keeps an eye out for cars moving slowly down the street or strangers walking along the sidewalk of his suburban Chicago neighborhood. He wonders about the times he answers the phone and the caller hangs up. "You don't know if that might be people ...

From DON BABWIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Friday the 13th phobia? You're not the only one

world, said spokesman Dilip Rangnekar. The supposedly unlucky number, triskaidekaphobes say, is the reason behind the explosion of Apollo 13, which took off at exactly 1:13 p.m. (1313 military time) on 4/11/70 (digits that add up to 13, naturally). ...

From DON BABWIN, Inside Bay Area,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry Ford,  Franklin D. Roosevelt

On Friday the 13th, they look out for No. 1

CHICAGO - Henry Ford would have hated 2009, and not just because it’s been a tough year to sell cars. Ford, as the story goes, refused to do business on Friday the 13th, and this week marks the third time this year that the 13th will fall on a Friday - ...

From DON BABWIN, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry Ford,  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Friday the 13th phobia? You have plenty of company

CHICAGO (AP) -- Henry Ford would have hated 2009, and not just because it's been a tough year to sell cars. Ford, as the story goes, refused to do business on Friday the 13th, and this week marks the third time this year that the 13th will fall on a ...

From DON BABWIN, Buffalo News,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry Ford,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  University of Chicago,  United Airlines,  Fidel Castro

Recession's good news: Cities see burglaries fall

nine months of the year is 335 fewer than in the same period last year. CHICAGO — Ever since he was laid off in March, Frank Beil has been on the lookout. He keeps an eye out for cars moving slowly down the street or strangers walking along the ...

From DON BABWIN, TwinCities.com,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Stealing a bit of good news in recession

end of September, a 15.5 percent decrease from the same period last year. And in Shelby, N.C., a town of 21,000, the number of burglaries through August was 23, compared with 60 for the same time last year. CHICAGO — Since he was laid off in March, ...

From DON BABWIN, Inside Bay Area,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

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