Recently added articles from Chicago Sun-Times:
Motive: 'He didn't like his son-in-law'; Prosecutor says dad killed daughter, her family in fire
Jan 02, 2008; Stefano Esposito and Rummana Hussain ... With the flick of a lighter, Subhash Chander wiped out hisdaughter's family -- all because she had defied him by marrying thewrong man, prosecutors said in court Tuesday.Cook County Judge Martin McDonough ordered the stooped, grizzledChander, 57, held without bail after hearing ...
Correction
Jan 02, 2008 ... Summer Glau, who plays the cyborg Cameron on Fox's "Terminator:The Sarah ...
A Father's Bizarre Rage
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2 killed in Logan Square shooting; But 2007 had lowest murder rate in Chicago since 1965
Jan 02, 2008; Kara Spak and Norman Parish ... After a quiet New Year's Eve in Chicago where no one was killed,the city ended 2007 with 442 homicides, the lowest number since1965.But the new year started off on a negative note, with at leasttwo homicides -- as of 9 p.m. -- in Logan Square on New Year's Day,authorities ...
Growing influence; This year, Iowa gets a bigger say
Jan 02, 2008; Robert Novak ... Iowa's caucuses are an annoyance to politicians and obnoxious topolitical junkies in the other 49 states. They ask why a tinypercentage of voters from a small state, willing to brave the coldon a winter night to attend a political caucus, play an importantrole in picking the presidential ...
'The polls are not enough'; Candidates fill the airwaves, mailboxes, streets
Jan 02, 2008; Abdon M. Pallasch and Lynn Sweet ... White House hopeful Hillary Clinton's plane passed rival BarackObama's bus at the Des Moines Airport on Tuesday as they bothlaunched last-minute fly-arounds of the state, but that doesn't meanher campaign soared past his.Clinton's and John Edwards' camps both pushed two new ...
Happy birthday, Klaudia; She was expected soon -- 'but not that soon'
Jan 02, 2008; Susan Hogan/Albach ... Baby Klaudia Wiktoria Prokop arrived 12 seconds after midnight onNew Year's Day -- apparently the first child born in a Chicago areahospital in 2008.She weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce and was 19 inches long.At 7 p.m. New Year's Eve, her mom, Renata Cikowska, rushed to theSt ....
'Nice not to have smoke in your face'; Law takes effect -- some thrilled
Jan 02, 2008; Esther J. Cepeda ... If any smokers puffed at home to protest the first day of thestate-wide indoor smoking ban, nonsmokers bellying up to Chicagobars for a beer and a breath of fresh air more than made up forthem."I love it," said Eileen Perry, 56, of Fox Lake, who was orderinglunch at Harry ...
Pooch survives gunshot to head; Dog's owner says cop who shot pet was reckless rookie, should have called animal control
Jan 02, 2008; Stefano Esposito ... Perhaps he was in denial.How else to explain why a perfectly ordinary mutt named Hunterwagged his tail, licked visitors and wandered around the ER of a St.Charles vet's clinic on Christmas Eve shortly after being shot inthe forehead by a West Chicago cop.As Hunter's ...
Nun served Babe Ruth at youth home; She also worked as a cook, teacher, nurse, lab tech and administrator
Jan 02, 2008; Ben Goldberger ... In November of 1947, a cancer-stricken Babe Ruth stopped inOmaha, Neb., to visit Boys Town, the Rev. Edward Flanagan's famoushome for "wayward boys."The ailing slugger toured the campus and talked with the boysbefore having dinner at Flanagan's home in the chapel rectory. ...
Know Real Chicago?
Jan 02, 2008 ... What's Real Chicago to you?Can you find it on a boat ride down the Chicago River? Or is itthe stench in the air near Lake Calumet on the South Side? Maybeit's a special neighborhood joint or some other place where you ...
Family seeks tips on death; Web site devoted to Drew's 3rd wife
Jan 02, 2008; Stefano Esposito ... The family of Kathleen Savio -- former Bolingbrook police Sgt.Drew Peterson's third wife -- has set up a Web site to encourage thepublic to come forward with tips to help determine how Savio died.Savio died in her Bolingbrook home in 2004, and her death wasruled an accidental ...
Chicagopedia; Defining how our city lives
Jan 02, 2008 ... prolly /prah-lee/ adv. In all likelihood, very likely. Example:"I was sick today, but I'll prolly go to school tomorrow." ...
24 Seven; A Day on the Chicago Crime and Fire Beats
Jan 02, 2008 ... 1. MONDAY 9:30 P.M. RIVERDALE/EDEN GREENMAN DIES AFTER CRASHA car driven by an 84-year-old Homewood man, James W. Simms,slammed into a fence pole near 135th and Indiana, authorities said.Simms was pronounced dead about an hour later at a Blue Islandhospital. ...
Cold for a Cause
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News in Brief
Jan 02, 2008 ... NORTHWEST SIDEWOMAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT, BUS DRIVER CITEDA CTA bus driver has been cited for an accident that killed aNorthwest Side woman, officials said Tuesday. On Monday, a westboundNo. 152 bus struck Ludwika Szynalik, 59, in the 6500 block of WestAddison. She later ...
'Welcome toparadise'; Much ado about doing nothing -- West Indies island resort lets pampered guests slow down for sun, sea, sand and sky
Jan 02, 2008; Lori Rackl ... Italians call it il dolce far niente, or the sweet art of doingnothing.I'm terrible at it. When I travel, the day starts early, endslate and consists of a bathroom-breaks-are-for-wimps kind ofitinerary that led one former travel companion to dub our trip a"death march." That's ...
Docs give whites more drugs than minorities; Reasons may include physicians' suspicions, patient behavior
Jan 02, 2008 ... Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics moreoften to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are lesslikely to get them than whites, a new study finds.Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities wereprescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and ...
Couple gets married at zoo where tiger killed
Jan 02, 2008 ... A couple was allowed to hold their long-scheduled weddingreception at the San Francisco Zoo, even though the grounds havebeen closed since a tiger escaped on Christmas and mauled threepeople, killing one of them.Erica De Jesus and Mike Garcia went on their first date at thezoo ...
Unvarnished truth; Candid biography of cartoonist Mauldin shines light on worst of war
Jan 02, 2008; Neil Steinberg ... OPENING SHOT . . .The youngest soldiers who served in the Second World War are intheir late 70s now, and an estimated thousand American World War IIvets die every day. They are sent off in a blast of "GreatestGeneration" tribute, patriotism and nostalgia, which is onlyfitting, ...