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Family identifies suspect in CTA shooting
A Chicago family has reached out to police saying their relative is the man being sought for the fatal shooting of a high school student on a CTA bus Sunday night, sources say. The family of the suspect is cooperating with police as detectives attempt to find him.
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Blagojevich to Rezko: Tell the truth
With criminal investigations into possible corruption in state government heating up, Gov. Blagojevich pointed Tuesday to an April letter written by his convicted former adviser Tony Rezko as evidence hes done nothing wrong.
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FBI on the lookout for 'Playboy Bandit'
The FBI is asking for the public's help in finding a man who robbed a south suburban bank at gunpoint last month. The suspect has been dubbed the "Playboy Bandit" because he wore a baseball cap with the distinctive Playboy bunny logo during the robbery.
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Teen killed over hand bump on CTA bus
An accidental hand brush between two men on a South Side CTA bus Sunday night led to the shooting death of a 17-year-old Chicago high school student. The shooting interrupted a typical teenage moment -- Kiyanna Salter was chatting with a friend on her cell phone when the shots rang out aboard the No. 71 bus traveling along 71st Street in Grand Crossing.
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Fireman, cop honored for bravery
By the time Chicago Fire Lt. Nicholas Cairo pulled up to the burning three-story apartment building in North Lawndale, family members had already tried to rescue the two young children trapped inside.
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Expert: 1 in 4 mammals threatened with extinction
One in four mammal species appears to be threatened with extinction a situation that could have dire consequences not just for animals but people, too, a Field Museum expert says.
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Committee OKs Midway privatization plan
Mayor Daley's $2.5 billion plan to privatize Midway Airport was cleared for take-off by a City Council committee today as City Hall races to complete the historic transaction before the change of administrations in Washington.
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U. of C. professor wins Nobel physics prize
University of Chicago physicist Yoichiro Nambu was awakened Tuesday by
a phone call the 87-year-old had almost given up on ever receiving.
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Bond denied for man accused of shooting at police
Bond was denied Tuesday for a reported gang member charged with two counts of attempted murder for firing shots at police Sunday night in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
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Towing flap heats up
Bucktown residents remained perplexed Monday as to why 127 cars were towed Sunday to make way for a neighborhood fun run. A map posted on the Bucktown 5K Web site showed a race course that neighbors said wasn't used by runners.
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Five injured in crash on Near West Side
Five women were hurt when the car they were riding in was T-boned by another car on the Near West Side early Tuesday.
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Three shot -- one fatally -- on South Side
A man was killed and two others wounded -- including one critically -- during a shooting late Monday on the South Side.
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Dozens get lifetime ban from city work
Twenty-five companies and 26 individuals -- most of them caught up in the Hired Truck and minority contracting scandals -- have been banned forever from doing business with the city.
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Man seriously injured in South Shore shooting
A man was seriously injured Tuesday morning when he was shot while standing outside in the South Shore neighborhood on the South Side.
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Metra shooting linked to murder-for-hire plot
Two men were accused Monday of shooting at a moving Metra train in what authorities said was a murder-for-hire plot targeting a Metra engineer.
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Marmol suffers minor injuries in car accident
Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol suffered minor injuries in a car accident early Tuesday in the Dominican Republic. A truck hit a car carrying Marmol, a cousin and a friend in his hometown of Bonao near 2 a.m. The All-Star right-hander had just arrived in the Caribbean nation after the Cubs were swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs.
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Bears find right balance
Reputations are difficult to shake, not that Kyle Orton cares one bit. One prognosticator in Detroit picked the Lions to win their first game Sunday against the Bears. His reasoning? The Lions were not so bad that they couldn't beat Orton at Ford Field.
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Cabrera, Swisher fail to deliver, one will go
Chris De Luca: They stopped playing postseason baseball in the Midwest on Monday. No more Cubs. No more Brewers. And now no more White Sox.
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Khabibulin on Hawks' season-opening roster
Nikolai Khabibulin returned to the Blackhawks training camp Tuesday and was listed on what general manager Dale Tallon called his season-opening roster. Tallon must submit a 23-man roster by 3 p.m. on Wednesday in advance of Fridays opening game against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
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2 more Tour riders test positive for blood booster
Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli twice tested positive for a blood booster during the Tour de France in July, officials said Monday, and German cyclist Stefan Schumacher was suspended by his team him for suspected use of the same substance.
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Illini honorees Williams, Miller have Gophers on their minds
Quarterback Juice Williams and middle linebacker Brit Miller were named the Big Ten's offensive and defensive players of the week for their performances in Illinois' record-setting 45-20 victory Saturday at Michigan.
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Bears showed class in blow-out
Editor's note: Former NFL veteran Matt Bowen is a Glenbard West grad who earned a degree in journalism from Iowa. He frequently analyzes Bears games for suntimes.com/sports.
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Cubs could've used Roberts
In the bitter end, the difference might have been Brian Roberts, after all. Maybe he wouldn't have overcome the walks in Game 1 or the errors in Game 2, but the Cubs' woeful lack of playoff hitting comes down to two big deficiencies: First, they have no left-handed hitters whom opponents respect. The second one is that the Cubs aren't built to hit in the postseason.
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Bring on the Rays
BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox brushed aside the Los Angeles Angels in four games, dismissing their 100-victory regular season as old news.
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Sox catch some Rays at bad time
On paper, the Tampa Bay Rays' 2008 season is one of the biggest turnarounds in major-league baseball history. A franchise that lost 96 games the previous season playing in a horrid domed stadium in a small market with no tradition wins 97 games to take the crown in the American League East, baseball's toughest division.
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Gooden prepared for expanded role
Coaches yearn for players to take ownership of their team.
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Gooden prepared for expanded role
Coaches yearn for players to take ownership of their team.
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Bears find right balance
Reputations are difficult to shake, not that Kyle Orton cares one bit. One prognosticator in Detroit picked the Lions to win their first game Sunday against the Bears. His reasoning? The Lions were not so bad that they couldn't beat Orton at Ford Field.
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Quitting no option for Lions' Marinelli
The Detroit Lions will have to fire Rod Marinelli if they don't want him to be their coach.
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Saints fall despite Bush's 2 TD returns
NEW ORLEANS -- The New Orleans Saints committed so many blunders, not even Reggie Bush's record-tying two punt returns for touchdowns could make up for them in a 30-27 loss Monday to the Minnesota Vikings.
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The Wachowskis: From '2001' to 'The Godfather' to 'The Matrix'
Roger Ebert: It was a night out of your dreams. We'd been invited by James Bond, the famed projection wizard, to see the new Kinowerks post-production and screening facility he designed and built on Chicago's north side. You have James to thank if you've ever attended the Grant Park outdoor film festival or Ebertfest. He'd arranged with Robert Harris, the famed restoration wizard, to show us Paramount's new print of "The Godfather."
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Who cares about story? This 'Quartet' can rock
Hedy Weiss: Just call them the Memphis Boys. Though unlike those urban, blue-collar, mostly first-generation East Coast immigrant kids we now think of as the Jersey Boys, they were poor Southern farm kids by birth. And for a brief period during the 1950s, what linked them together was that they all got their big career breaks thanks to that visionary rock 'n' roll producer Sam Phillips, who recorded them at his Sun Studio storefront in Memphis.
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Be Tina Fey on Halloween! How to do Sarah Palin's hair
Planning to be Sarah Palin for Halloween but not sure how to do her emblematic do? You dont need to head to the beauty shop in Wasilla, Alaska, to look like the Republican vice-presidential nominee. Its really more of a casual up-do than anything else, with teasing here and there for height or support, said Billy Lowe, celebrity stylist and beauty expert.
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'Weird Al' now wastes no time with song parodies
For the first time in his nearly three-decade career, comedy maestro Weird Al Yankovic is releasing his parody of a current No. 1 single evidently just days after he thought of it. Yankovics version of Whatever You Like, a riff on the T.I. track of the same name, will be available for download today on iTunes.
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Headmistress vs. Oprah: Chat-show queen sued
The ex-headmistress of Oprah Winfreys school for girls in South Africa sued the talk show host for defamation, claiming Winfrey falsely suggested she tried to cover up abuse at the school. In widely reported remarks last year, Winfrey suggested that Nomvuyo Mzamane, 39, of Philadelphia, knew about alleged abuse by a dorm matron and tried to cover it up, Mzamane says in the lawsuit. Her lawsuit seeks more than $250,000 on five defamation counts.
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Scurrilous: Chicago's No. 1 couch potato
Jolie tattoo explosion
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In the Know: Ky Dickens
Discussing religion is hard enough; throw in homosexuality and you've got yourself a double whammy.
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'Weird Al' now wastes no time with song parodies
For the first time in his nearly three-decade career, comedy maestro Weird Al Yankovic is releasing his parody of a current No. 1 single evidently just days after he thought of it. Yankovics version of Whatever You Like, a riff on the T.I. track of the same name, will be available for download today on iTunes.
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Kanye West moves album date up, avoids 50 Cent
Kanye West made a surprise appearance at rapper T.I.s MySpace-sponsored show in Los Angeles on Friday and announced that his upcoming album, 808s and Heartbreak, will arrive Nov. 25. It had been expected Dec. 16.
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Ex-Replacements 'mess around' toward possible reunion
Giving fans further hope for some kind of Replacements reunion, group principals Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson joined forces in September to mess around in Minneapolis with Soul Asylum/Prince drummer Michael Bland.
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Ex-Replacements 'mess around' toward possible reunion
Giving fans further hope for some kind of Replacements reunion, group principals Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson joined forces in September to mess around in Minneapolis with Soul Asylum/Prince drummer Michael Bland.
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Headmistress vs. Oprah: Chat-show queen sued
The ex-headmistress of Oprah Winfreys school for girls in South Africa sued the talk show host for defamation, claiming Winfrey falsely suggested she tried to cover up abuse at the school. In widely reported remarks last year, Winfrey suggested that Nomvuyo Mzamane, 39, of Philadelphia, knew about alleged abuse by a dorm matron and tried to cover it up, Mzamane says in the lawsuit. Her lawsuit seeks more than $250,000 on five defamation counts.
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Reese, Jake going strong
The romance between Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal is taking the usual roller coaster ride in the celebrity press. First it was all hush-hush. Then the stars were photographed holding hands, then joined by Witherspoon's kids, and finally looking romantic in various spots around the globe. Now comes the supposed ''rift'' in the relationship being trumpeted all over the Internet and the supermarket checkout counters.
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Esquire names Halle Berry sexiest woman alive
LOS ANGELES Alongside a photo spread that shows her in little more than a T-shirt, Halle Berry talks about being the sexiest woman alive, a title Esquire magazine gives her in its November issue.
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R. Kelly seeks $3.4 million from tour promoter
LOS ANGELES---- R. Kelly has won a $3.4 million award against his former tour promoter and is asking a Los Angeles judge to help him collect.
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Obama's winning the race for Halloween masks
The method is far from scientific, but Halloween stores are predicting the winner in the presidential election, and theres no exit polling needed only political mask sales. Halloween suppliers say sales of masks of presidential candidates have predicted the winner in the last several campaigns. So far, thats good news for Barack Obama, whose mask is outselling John McCains at several national retailers.
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Retailers hope pinch doesn't steal Christmas sales
Brother, can you spare an Elmo Live doll? Economic woes have the toy industry worried parents may cut back on kids' playthings at Christmas. The National Retail Federation predicts holiday sales will rise 2.2 percent to $470.4 billion, the slowest growth since 2002.
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Putting a fan in baby's room might fight SIDS
Having your baby sleep on his back is still the best way to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, but a new study suggests that using a fan in the room can help, too. The study found that running a fan appears to reduce the risk of SIDS, the leading cause of death for babies 1 month to 1 year old.
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Key brakes teen drivers
So you think junior is a little lead-footed? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it. The company will roll out a new feature on many 2010 models that can limit teen drivers to 80 mph, using a computer chip in the key.
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U46 officials focus on mentoring at-risk boys
With at-risk male students falling behind across Elgin School District U46, administrators are stepping up to the plate as mentors. "Research shows that kids who are at risk and are significantly connected to an adult in the community, their success in school improves," said U46 Superintendent Jose Torres. "As a large school district, our trends often mirror national research that indicates boys are more at risk of falling behind," Torres said.
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Putting a fan in baby's room might fight SIDS
Having your baby sleep on his back is still the best way to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, but a new study suggests that using a fan in the room can help, too. The study found that running a fan appears to reduce the risk of SIDS, the leading cause of death for babies 1 month to 1 year old.
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Stocks tumble as Wall Street worries about financials
The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on the losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points amid escalating worries about credit markets and financial sector. The Dow lost more than 500 points and all the major indexes slid more than 5 percent.
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Mortgage relief deal
Sandra Guy: Nearly 11,000 Illinoisans with Countrywide mortgages -- most of them in the Chicago area -- are expected to get help to avoid foreclosure after Countrywide's new owner, Bank of America, agreed to an $8.7 billion settlement with Illinois and 10 other states. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office helped resolve a lawsuit that alleged Countrywide put people into loans, mostly subprime loans, that the would-be homeowners could not afford.
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Kraft to slash 400 jobs
Northfield-based foodmaker Kraft Foods Inc. said Monday it is cutting 400 jobs in North America to reduce costs. Kraft spokeswoman Renee Zahery said the layoffs will represent a cut of about 1 percent in the company's North American work force.
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Safeway 3rd-quarter profit rises almost 3 percent
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Higher gas sales and a boost from its more upscale stores helped grocer Safeway, Dominick's parent company, post a slight rise in third-quarter earnings.
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Fed to buy massive amounts of debt
The Federal Reserve moved swiftly to break through a credit clog that is imperiling the economy, saying Tuesday it would buy massive amounts of short-term debt and hinting that it may cut interest rates.
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CME, Citadel working together on credit default swaps
CME Group Inc. and hedge fund Citadel Investment Group LLC plan a venture to compete with Chicago-based Clearing Corp. to guarantee credit default swaps in the $54.6 trillion market, Bloomberg News reported.
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August borrowing drops 3.7%
Government data show consumer borrowing fell in August for the first time in more than a decade as households, battered by rising job layoffs and the worsening economy, cut back sharply on their use of credit.
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Chicago: economic crisis won't affect Olympic bid
MEXICO CITY---- Chicago organizers are confident the global economic crisis will have no negative effect on the city's bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
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Retailers hope pinch doesn't steal Christmas sales
Brother, can you spare an Elmo Live doll? Economic woes have the toy industry worried parents may cut back on kids' playthings at Christmas. The National Retail Federation predicts holiday sales will rise 2.2 percent to $470.4 billion, the slowest growth since 2002.
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Ouch! Dow ends down 369 after falling over 800 points
Keep the Tums handy. Investor portfolios took another pounding Monday as the Dow roller coaster dived to a new record intra-day drop, at one point falling more than 800 points before recovering some to close down roughly 370.
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Arbitron rollout jumps the gun
Ready or not, Chicago radio was jolted into the future Monday with a surprise package from Arbitron.
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Dozens get lifetime ban from city work
Twenty-five companies and 26 individuals -- most of them caught up in the Hired Truck and minority contracting scandals -- have been banned forever from doing business with the city.
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Key brakes teen drivers
So you think junior is a little lead-footed? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it. The company will roll out a new feature on many 2010 models that can limit teen drivers to 80 mph, using a computer chip in the key.
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Deals for savvy Santas
Wal-Mart and KB Toys have each cut prices already on popular toys -- ranging from Mattel's Barbie to the Bakugan game -- to $10 or less, and Target said it is offering $10 toys as well, ahead of the holiday season.
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EU eyes raising guarantee on private savings
LUXEMBOURG---- An emergency meeting of European Union finance ministers debated raising guarantees for private savings across the 27-nation bloc on Tuesday in an attempt at a coordinated response to the global financial crisis.
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Even a Cubs basher has to feel sorry for the fans
I gotta admit: I kind of feel sorry for Cubs fans this time. Don't you? That is assuming you're not one of the Cubs fans already feeling sorry for themselves.
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Biden and Palin fail to impress
THE DEBATE between Sen. Joe Biden and the winking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last week did not move this reporter. As far as I am concerned, Palin should be running for "Hockey Mom of the Year" or for head of the PTA Board ... not for one of this country's highest offices. And Biden was so busy grinning, I thought he was auditioning for a toothpaste commercial. But he was the best of the two.
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Wall St. implodes, but bad ideas survive
The largest savings and loan and the largest insurance company go belly up. One trillion dollars lost in the stock market in one day. Two trillion dollars lost in housing values. Congress hands the Treasury secretary $700 billion in a panicked vote and heads out of town. This isn't the failure of one firm, or one industry. We are witnessing the collapse of a failed ideology -- what the famed investor George Soros calls "market fundamentalism," the belief that markets are always perfect and government should deregulate, cut taxes and get out of the way.
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Power of press really can be a beautiful thing
This is why I love what I do. On Monday, two low-life scoundrels were indicted by a federal grand jury for twice firing at a Metra train in June of last year.
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Racism on the campaign trail? Live chat with Mary Mitchell now
Give Mary Mitchell a piece of your mind or a pat on the back and get involved in the discussion now. Mary's talking about deragatory statements on the campaign trail, specifically at a Sarah Palin rally today in Florida.
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McCain should highlight Dems' role in Fannie, Freddie fiasco
Sarah Palin is bringing up Barack Obama's long connection to William Ayers . . . OK.
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A right to be wrong
QT Early Warning System:
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Woo Woo and White Sox just don't mix
So the Sox are getting hammered by the Rays in a die-or-yeah-we're-dead game on a late Monday afternoon in October, and I'm meeting some friends in the concourse for one last toast before we move on to Bears and Barack and other such things, and there he is:
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Cops up in arms?
Hmmm. Sneed hears rumbles a surprise police protest at City Hall is being organized. Complaints of low morale, outdated equipment and no police contract may result in a public outcry.
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McCain's latest barrage not likely to be enough
Lynn Sweet: With more polls trending in Barack Obama's direction and with his lead over John McCain growing, the controversial Chicago 3 -- Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Tony Rezko -- won't likely prevent the Illinois senator from being elected president in a few weeks.
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Arbitron rollout jumps the gun
Ready or not, Chicago radio was jolted into the future Monday with a surprise package from Arbitron.
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Lew's advertising industry news
Now we know what happened when Lor Gold, 58, abruptly exited Rivet, an agency founded in Chicago several years ago principally as a repository for conflict accounts when Draft merged with Foote Cone & Belding. Rivet's former managing director/chief creative officer has surfaced as the new global chief creative officer at TimeZoneOne, an agency with offices in Chicago and Christchurch, New Zealand. TZO came to Chicago several years ago to try to build its business in America around the fact that it could service clients quickly and efficiently because of the large time difference between Chicago and it's New Zealand flagship office, where 70 percent of the agency's operations are based. TZO describes its work methodology as a "follows the sun" approach with a 24-hour workday. TZO hasn't exactly bowled over the American marketplace yet, but it does list among its clients Croc's, American Medical Association and School of the Art Institute.
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Mortgage relief deal
Sandra Guy: Nearly 11,000 Illinoisans with Countrywide mortgages -- most of them in the Chicago area -- are expected to get help to avoid foreclosure after Countrywide's new owner, Bank of America, agreed to an $8.7 billion settlement with Illinois and 10 other states. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office helped resolve a lawsuit that alleged Countrywide put people into loans, mostly subprime loans, that the would-be homeowners could not afford.
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Cabrera, Swisher fail to deliver, one will go
Chris De Luca: They stopped playing postseason baseball in the Midwest on Monday. No more Cubs. No more Brewers. And now no more White Sox.
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Sox one proud, slow team
It was the seventh inning when the Sox were down four runs to Tampa Bay. And you knew they weren't going to give up, weren't going to panic.
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Bears find right balance
Reputations are difficult to shake, not that Kyle Orton cares one bit. One prognosticator in Detroit picked the Lions to win their first game Sunday against the Bears. His reasoning? The Lions were not so bad that they couldn't beat Orton at Ford Field.
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Bears showed class in blow-out
Editor's note: Former NFL veteran Matt Bowen is a Glenbard West grad who earned a degree in journalism from Iowa. He frequently analyzes Bears games for suntimes.com/sports.
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Harris expected to play
Tommie Harris returned to work Monday, and the Bears expect the Pro Bowl defensive tackle to play Sunday at Atlanta. Harris has missed the last two games, the first because of his banged-up left knee and the second for a one-game suspension.
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Gooden prepared for expanded role
Coaches yearn for players to take ownership of their team.
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Marmol suffers minor injuries in car accident
Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol suffered minor injuries in a car accident early Tuesday in the Dominican Republic. A truck hit a car carrying Marmol, a cousin and a friend in his hometown of Bonao near 2 a.m. The All-Star right-hander had just arrived in the Caribbean nation after the Cubs were swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs.
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Cubs could've used Roberts
In the bitter end, the difference might have been Brian Roberts, after all. Maybe he wouldn't have overcome the walks in Game 1 or the errors in Game 2, but the Cubs' woeful lack of playoff hitting comes down to two big deficiencies: First, they have no left-handed hitters whom opponents respect. The second one is that the Cubs aren't built to hit in the postseason.
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Playoff flop doesn't alter Cubs' plans
The Cubs may look like toast after three more wrong-way playoff games and an early October exit. But the message from the highest office in the organization is that this team isn't done.
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Cabrera, Swisher fail to deliver, one will go
Chris De Luca: They stopped playing postseason baseball in the Midwest on Monday. No more Cubs. No more Brewers. And now no more White Sox.
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Ray-signed to their fate
A.J. Pierzynski looked around the clubhouse and started to smile. ''One word to describe this year? Roller coaster,'' the White Sox catcher said without a pause.
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Reinsdorf 'enjoyed' overachieving team
The 2009 budget?
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Paulie: We ran out of gas
Paul Konerko won't have a championship ball to hand to White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf this time. But the team captain can assure the boss of something Reinsdorf probably knows anyway.
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Vazquez's future in Sox' hands
When the Tampa Bay Rays put the White Sox' season to bed Monday, it also ended the soap opera surrounding right-hander Javier Vazquez.
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Sox fans remember season
On Monday, Sox fans returned to Bridgeport wearing all black -- this time for the season's funeral. The Tampa Bay Rays beat the White Sox 6-2 to win the American League Division Series. Fans shuffled home remembering the good times that got their team this far.
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White Sox recap
How they scored
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Sox catch some Rays at bad time
On paper, the Tampa Bay Rays' 2008 season is one of the biggest turnarounds in major-league baseball history. A franchise that lost 96 games the previous season playing in a horrid domed stadium in a small market with no tradition wins 97 games to take the crown in the American League East, baseball's toughest division.
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