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EDUCATION / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 11:53pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- A Wisconsin teacher who posted an anonymous comment online sarcastically praising the Columbine High School gunmen won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said the comme.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Fri Nov 9, 2007 @ 2:24pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- Anti-war and free-speech advocates joined angry parents and students in their battle with Berwyn school district officials who may expel a group of students who took part in an Iraq war protest at a school last week. The lunchtime protest Nov. 1 in the.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 8:24pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- A Chicago woman who became enraged after discovering her longtime boyfriend's stash of pornography shot and killed him in their South Side home over the weekend, prosecutors said. Jeanette Strowder, 58, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the Sun.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 11:07pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- The board of United Airlines parent UAL Corp. is mulling spinning off several key assets, including the airline's popular frequent-flier program, as directors contemplate shrinking the carrier while substantially increasing its cash stash, United sources.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Wed May 16, 2007 @ 12:40pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- At Avalon Park Elementary School, the 8th graders in Room 104 still wrestle with the pain. It's in the eyes of the young man who cannot bring himself to talk about last month's brutal stabbing death of his classmate and best friend, 14-year-old Quinton.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 1:28pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- Signaling that he would not abandon efforts in Congress to place a timeline on ending the war in Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that he and other Democrats would continue pressing the issue until President Bush is forced to acce.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 12:25pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- The suspected gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, Cho Seung-Hui, was a troubled 23-year-old senior from South Korea who investigators believe left an invective-filled note in his dorm room, sources say. The note included a rambling list of gr.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 4:16pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- The public fairgrounds in this small east Texas town look ordinary enough, like so many other well-worn county fair sites across the nation. Unless you know the history of the place. There are no plaques or markers to denote it, but several of the most.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 9:37am neoform

Chicago Tribune -- A severe line of thunderstorms and tornados slammed through Lake and Volusia counties overnight, leaving fatalities and destruction in its path, officials said this morning... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 3:51pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- "Well, I'm the vice president, and they're not,'' Vice President Dick Cheney said with a laugh at the close of a long interview, asked how he handles criticism from the likes of Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser, an old associate who.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 17, 2007 @ 7:13pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- A Cook County sheriff's lieutenant and her boyfriend filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against sheriff's officials and neighbors who accused them of having sex in a back-yard hot tub in 2005... Read More

HEALTH / OPINION Mon Jan 1, 2007 @ 7:19pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- It sounds like a tired joke--but a group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 11:26am mrmdc

Chicago Tribune -- A Sister of Mercy who taught in Chicago-area Catholic schools for more than three decades has been indicted in Wisconsin over allegations that she abused pupils at a Milwaukee school nearly 40 years ago... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Nov 20, 2006 @ 10:08am mrmdc

Chicago Tribune -- The popular Craigslist Web site is not legally liable for allegedly discriminatory housing ads posted by its users, a federal judge in Chicago ruled in a case pitting landmark internet and fair housing laws against each other... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Nov 18, 2006 @ 8:56am neoform

Chicago Tribune -- The yearly UN conference on climate change ended Friday with only modest results after delegates failed to establish a timetable for future cuts on pollution linked to global warming... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Nov 6, 2006 @ 1:09pm mrmdc

Chicago Tribune -- Google Inc., operator of the most- used Internet search engine, won U.S. antitrust approval for its $1.65 billion purchase of video sharing site YouTube Inc... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 12:45am neoform

Chicago Tribune -- Nancy Malooly hustled her shoes off, chucked some lip gloss into the trash and was carefully polite to the screeners as she made her way through Dallas Love Field's security checkpoint recently... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Oct 28, 2006 @ 2:55pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- With Election Day "around the corner,'' President Bush wants to talk about tax cuts, the ones that he has won, the ones he wants to make permanent and the ones that he warns Democrats will take away if they gain control of Congress in these midterm con.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Oct 28, 2006 @ 2:49pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- In an expected move nonetheless seen as a political signal to Washington, Iran said it stepped up its uranium enrichment program Friday, even as a divided UN Security Council became bogged down over a European draft resolution to impose sanctions on Tehra.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Thu Oct 26, 2006 @ 4:55pm mrmdc

Chicago Tribune -- After losing the election for president for the second time in 1956, Adlai E. Stevenson gave the prestigious Gridiron speech in Washington. As a young assistant and Stevenson law partner at the time, I was thrilled to be invited to accompany him on the tr.. Read More