Stories Collection

1. A woman is suing the Old Orchard shopping center because a squirrel jumped on her leg...
2. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind -- Authorities Monday labeled a fatal Michigan City fire that kill...
3. HAVANA -- Cuban state television on Monday aired the first video of Fidel Castro sinc...
4. If you wish to hasten the demise of credit card offers ["Time for credit card offers ...
5. For members of Generation X and Y, video game arcades were more than just noisy, crow...
6. Dear Ellie: A year ago, my 16-year-old sister moved in with me. She'd been assaulted ...
7. NEW YORK -- PepsiCo Inc. Monday named Chief Financial Officer Indra K. Nooyi, 50, to ...
8. The Rev. Theodore McNulty had a booming voice and a knockout personality. A boxe...
9. It was worth the wait. The Fire shut out the Kansas City Wizards 2-0 in a fourth...
10. The Bears plan to shut down strong safety Mike Brown for the remainder of the preseas...
11. People switch to fuel-efficient vehicles for all kinds of reasons. Margaret James rea...
12. Real estate taxes have not been going up as fast as property values. That means ...
13. LOS ANGELES -- Our solar system is suffering an identity crisis. For decades, it ...
14. MARION, Ind. -- Doesn't Taco Bell already have taco sauce? Police say 10 to 15 p...
15. 79% of likely voting Democrats were happy Sen. Joe Lieberman was defeated by anti-war...
16. News Headline: "Dems, GOP trade shots on security; but they all agree on vulnerabilit...
17. Dear Ellie: For five months I've been seeing the woman I've waited for my whole life ...
18. 529 plan Named after the section of the tax code that establishes them, 529 plan...
19. Even after his team lost its first two games in round-robin play at the Great Lakes R...
20. Steve Breaston was supposed to be Michigan's next Desmond Howard, another Superman in...
21. CUBS AT ASTROS Tonight: 7:05, Comcast SportsNet Plus, CLTV, 720-AM. Carlos Zambr...
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23. With a lot of skill and loads of luck, Kevin Harvick stole a road race Sunday at Watk...
24. PORTAGE, Ind. -- A judge fed up with teen traffic violators is hitting them where it ...
25. A waiter suffered stab wounds Sunday morning after being robbed near the downtown hot...
26. PARIS -- Segolene Royal, the French Socialist Party's most popular presidential candi...
27. VAN BUREN, Ind. -- The first of five Garfield statues planned in the home county of t...
28. I wonder if anybody, besides myself, now recognizes the irony of the Chicago City Cou...
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30. JAZZ REVIEW Fred Anderson, Edward 'Kidd' Jordan, Tatsu Aoki, Alvin Fielder ...
31. Items intended for the Appointments column must be submitted one to two weeks in adva...
32. MASCOT MAYHEM Titans' T-Rac dishes out devastating hit Of all the problems ...
33. BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- Rookie safety Danieal Manning said he didn't have any butte...
34. Russell Martin led off the 10th inning with a home run against Vinnie Chulk (0-1), an...
35. Q. When should I use fuel injector cleaner for my 2003 Mustang Mach I? Will the ...
36. HAVANA -- Fidel Castro sent Cubans a sober greeting on his 80th birthday Sunday, sayi...
37. VEHICLES, CYCLIST PELTED A group of teenage boys threw objects at vehicles and a...
38. ANLONG VENG, Cambodia -- Call it crass, macabre or educational, but Pol Pot's shabby ...
39. SAN ANTONIO -- Is it an artesian spring, a broken water pipe or an abandoned well? ...
40. Art critic Kevin Nance waxes rhapsodic [Aug. 2] over Tony Fitzpatrick's "Blues for Fr...
41. Whoopi Goldberg's new syndicated radio show, which lands today on WLIT-FM (93.9), is ...
42. CONCERT REVIEW Wu-Tang Clan and Rhymefest at the congress theatre In recent...
43. A weekly heads-up from Tech Venue.com about upcoming business- technology events. Pro...
44. PARIS-- France midfielder Patrick Vieira said he thinks Italy defender Marco Materazz...
45. Running back Clinton Portis partially dislocated his left shoulder on the Washington ...
46. Junkball pitchers are funny little guys. You wonder what they're doing to the ball ex...
47. Ford needs a modern version of its early 1960s Falcon to battle new, small Japanese e...
48. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. -- An early Sunday morning fire killed four people in a crowded h...
49. Two men fishing at Montrose Harbor landed a lucky catch Sunday with help from Chicago...
50. NEW ORLEANS -- Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina submerged Xavier University's ca...
51. DALLAS -- The wife of one of three Texas men arraigned on terrorism-related charges i...
52. The proliferation of bicycles on public roads is damaging the quality of life, and it...
53. DYERSVILLE, Iowa -- The corn lining the outfield is tall again this year. The white f...
54. For the first time since early 2001, demand for Chicago office space downtown and in ...
55. Here's where the major stock indexes stand before today's opening bell: Last wee...
56. There is good news for the United States as the World Basketball Championship approac...
57. BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- The best players play. That's supposed to be the code of any com...
58. The final six weeks of the baseball season will ramp up emotions for White Sox fans -...
59. 2007 TOYOTA FJ CRUISER PRICE $21,910 - $23,500 LIKES Nifty retro ...
60. JERUSALEM -- A U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect today designed to end a month...
61. The number of homeless Chicago Public Schools students has skyrocketed in the last si...
62. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Church bells rang. Whistles at fire stations and mill factories s...
63. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fighting in Afghanistan left at least 25 insurgents and five Af...
64. Regarding "Owner faces charges after puppy left in hot van dies," [news story, Aug. 3...
65. There's a ton of romance and baby news today: - Though her people have yet to co...
66. Orbitz and Allstar Sports Bar are pioneering a new kind of employee incentive program...
67. Notable stock upgrades issued in the last week. (Trading symbols in parentheses.) ...
68. The gates at Medinah Country Club won't open for the 88th PGA Championship until 7 th...
69. BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- A week before the Bears' exhibition opener, Jerry Angelo was tha...
70. Winning each series, one at a time, should be the focus as the Sox eye the distant go...
71. It didn't matter if the president of the United States was named Johnson or Bush. It ...
72. Weekend murder victim Hector Jimenez didn't live in the Lawndale neighborhood where h...
73. DAY ONE Follow the series on www.suntimes.com Jill Carroll, a free-lance re...
74. FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The top U.S. general dropped into this volatile city Sunday to hear...
75. BALTIMORE -- The short-term spike in blood pressure that comes with moderate exercise...
76. "At 4 percent -- the interest rate paid on most savings bonds -- the annual interest ...
77. LOS ANGELES -- The Will Ferrell comedy "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" ...
78. Times are difficult for restaurant and bar owners, but taking funny money? Allst...
79. PAUL 'STERNO' BAUMANN 1961-2006 At first glance, Paul "Sterno" Baumann might hav...
80. LONDON -- Heather Clarke, the wife of golfer Darren Clarke, died Sunday after a long ...
81. ON THE FIELD A rough game was followed by a practice that had some bumpy spots f...
82. It seemed like old times at U.S. Cellular Field, where brooms came out Sunday after a...
83. WASHINGTON -- Air travelers were handed new rules Sunday, given permission to carry s...
84. Four men in Mexico have been indicted in Chicago for conspiracy to possess and distri...
85. A real estate investor is suing a top fund-raiser for Gov. Blagojevich for allegedly ...
86. CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq -- Retracing her path to becoming a brigadier general in Iraq, Re...
87. MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's leftist presidential candidate promised on Sunday to maintain...
88. Some taxpayers may be upset that they are required to pay their property taxes earlie...
89. It was one of the most highly anticipated events of the summer theater season, and it...
90. If you're one of the 73 million baby boomers 45 to 64 with children set to attend col...
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92. BEIRUT -- More Israeli tanks and soldiers surged into southern Lebanon on Saturday, r...
93. PEDESTRIAN HIT BY SUV A 68-year-old pedestrian was in critical condition after s...
94. HOUSTON -- Federal prosecutors want former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling to turn o...
95. WASHINGTON -- Thousands gathered across from the White House on Saturday, even though...
96. WWE announced early last week that because of a knee injury, Hulk Hogan might not wre...
97. Carrying a 3.9 grade-point average in mechanical engineering while playing Big Ten fo...
98. BOSTON -- Manny Ramirez singled with two on and nobody out in the 10th, and Baltimore...
99. Whatever friction existed between the White Sox and Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk...
100. My school used to offer two varieties of food. There was cafeteria food, which was in...
101. In response to the Aug. 8 article about alleged animal cruelty by a Chicago horse tra...
102. MEMOIR Hillbilly Gothic A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood By Adrienne...
103. NEW YORK -- Ten years ago, tourists visiting Brooklyn saw it as nothing more than a s...
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105. Appraisers are taking the heat in Illinois and nationwide for what some see as a bloa...
106. I love to start plants from seeds. Although it takes a bit longer, that doesn't bothe...
107. Apple Computer Inc. on Friday reiterated that its mishandling of past employee stock ...
108. From their first appearance in Chicago two years ago, Austin, Texas-based concert pro...
109. NEW YORK -- Diane Lane recently made a drastic change with one of her most valuable a...
110. When a 9-year-old Chicago girl fell to her death last year after a porch railing snap...
111. Renowned sculptor Virginio Ferrari says one of his most famous children has been mist...
112. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A federal judge has ordered personal items seized in 1996 from ...
113. HAVANA -- Fidel Castro is sitting up, walking and even working a bit on the eve of hi...
114. Oleg Maskaev stopped Hasim Rahman in the 12th round with a dramatic last-minute rally...
115. The Tin Man was a dreamer -- until the Good Witch of the Turf sprinkled enough slow d...
116. Bartolo Colon thinks that with rest and rehab, his partially torn rotator cuff should...
117. One apology isn't enough for Eddie Johnson. He wants an apology every day of every we...
118. In a new twist on the racial-skewed death penalty, Black Press USA Writer Fitzroy Ste...
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120. PAPERBACK What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern ...
121. Last month's Gay Games VII did many good things for the local gay community, not the ...
122. Worldwide travelers take note: Albuquerque, N.M., should be on your list of must-see ...
123. Appraisers say that pointing fingers isn't necessarily useful in a transaction as com...
124. This article presents some home-selling advice from the American Homeowners Foundatio...
125. NEW YORK -- Not every idea has to be smart to make it on TV. Sometimes stupid works, ...
126. Three months ago, Showing Up was running as Barbaro's uncoupled - - and unbeaten -- e...
127. Rating 4 out of 4 Essential Rating 3 out of 4 Good Rating 2 out of 4 Fair ...
128. Jen, it's time to move on ... You know that stupid game teenagers in puppy love ...
129. CARO, Mich. -- Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on terrorism-related charges a...
130. Shawn Larson of Geneva remembers being ashamed to talk about his older sister Trisha ...
131. LONDON -- The investigation into a plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic zeroed...
132. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Police found a dozen bodies in a grate in the Tigris River, and a ro...
133. Zach Johnson kept his head up and waited for things to get better, as he knew they wo...
134. The last time a college team signed a backcourt of two national top-five players, Nor...
135. Brad Penny became the NL's first 13-game winner, Wilson Betemit hit a tiebreaking two...
136. Few participants in American politics are taken less seriously than the Hispanic Repu...
137. If by chance you've made peace with your skin -- pores, pits and all -- the latest ne...
138. Sen. Joe Lieberman's defeat in the Democratic primary by previously unknown businessm...
139. LUNAR PARK By Bret Easton Eillis Knopf, 2005 Ours is an age of terror ...
140. MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- One of the best ways to look at Memphis is through the thick black ...
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142. The Fichtel family -- Matt and Lynn and their two young children - - moved up to a ne...
143. As the housing market cools, Americans are confronting a problem that was easy to ign...
144. Sandy Alomar Jr. was behind the plate Saturday for Mark Buehrle again, but manager Oz...
145. POP Christina Aguilera, "Back to Basics" (RCA) Rating 2 1/2 As Christina Ag...
146. There's a puzzling dichotomy to Hugh Grant. Is he the charming, affable stutterer of ...
147. An ice cream man was shot and killed on the West Side on Saturday evening, his truck ...
148. The mayoral beer of choice? Miller Lite. Ice cream? Butter pecan. Favorite ...
149. WASHINGTON -- The new rule banning U.S. air travelers from bringing aboard bottled wa...
150. Sure, learning is its own reward. But some kids respond best to cash. Andrew Wal...
151. Ahandful of cicadas in the neighbor's elms trilled loud enough to dominate the evenin...
152. Mike Tirico, the play-by-play guy, is a solid veteran. Joe Theismann, the analyst, is...
153. This spring, just about every so-called fantasy baseball expert said major-league cat...
154. At my high school graduation, an earnest Presbyterian minister, father of one of the ...
155. 'By the time you read this, I hope to be long gone, wiggling my toes in the sand of a...
156. This much cannot be contested: Jon Graham Burge was a sadistic Chicago cop who got hi...
157. The End of Poverty: Possibilities For Our Time Jeffrey Sachs (Penguin, 416 pages...
158. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -- For everyone who has fantasized about competing in the Tour d...
159. These icons of the Rubik's Cube era -- Eddie Money, Rick Springfield, Mike Reno (of L...
160. Q. I want to spend more time outdoors with my family. We get a nice breeze, so a scre...
161. Q. Ed, believe it or not, your plumbing advice has helped our marriage! We get both y...
162. Many thought a series victory against the Detroit Tigers was a must for the White Sox...
163. When Star Jones Reynolds unexpectedly announced her departure from "The View" a few d...
164. The Census Bureau's U.S. Population Clock is ticking toward October, when demographer...
165. Simon Pulsifer has never really blended in with the crowd. In kindergarten, he began ...
166. With U.S. authorities investigating whether the British plotters had ties in America,...
167. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED THE MOTLEY FOOL? Remember Shakespeare? Remember "As Yo...
168. 88TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP SITE: MEDINAH COUNTRY CLUB No. 3 Course (7,561 yards,...
169. ON THE FIELD Players will review game film today before practicing at 7 p.m. at ...
170. Reed Johnson hit a two-run homer for the second straight game, and Scott Downs worked...
171. The sparkle on the golden arm of Jose Contreras had tarnished somewhat in the last mo...
172. Michael Guthrie is a successful oral surgeon who wanted to live in a multimillion-dol...
173. UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday t...
174. NEW YORK -- Dejected prosecutors got a big lift Friday when a judge reinstated racket...
175. ZOOM Rating 1 out of 4 Captain Zoom . . . . Tim Allen Marsha . . . . Courte...
176. The Kedzie and Rockwell stations on the CTA Brown Line are scheduled to reopen on Aug...
177. For one brief, shining afternoon today -- hopefully -- Arlington Park and its fans wi...
178. DENVER -- The buzz in the National League is Coors Field is playing differently this ...
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180. SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Blagojevich's toddler daughter was thrust into a maelstrom Friday...
181. NEW YORK -- It's a bust of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- in more ways than one. ...
182. ST. LOUIS -- Federal prosecutors said Friday they will continue prosecuting BetOnSpor...
183. NEW YORK -- Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah Khomeini that...
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185. With the high school boys soccer season days away from kicking off, Lincoln-Way East ...
186. David Wells benefited from a seven-run third inning to earn his first victory of an i...
187. An 81-year-old woman is the first Cook County resident and the state's second person ...
188. MEXICO CITY -- A moderate earthquake rocked Mexico City on Friday, causing skyscraper...
189. BERLIN -- German novelist Guenter Grass admitted in an interview that he served in th...
190. Mills Corp., the financially ailing developer of the Loop's Block 37, has sold a majo...
191. The federal judge who ruled an Illinois law banning the sale of violent or sexual vid...
192. The best part of Patrick Sheehan's day was playing with Ian Leggatt and Chris Riley t...
193. Aaron Rowand's RBI single with one out in the 14th inning lifted the surging Phillies...
194. The big bats of the American League will boom until season's end. That's why the Whit...
195. Despite his objections, former Gov. George Ryan must answer why he pardoned four form...
196. BEIJING -- The most powerful typhoon to hit China in a half century killed 105 and le...
197. Today's Bud Billiken Parade steps off at 10 a.m. at 89th and King Drive and will proc...
198. Shares of United Airlines parent UAL and other airlines slid further Friday, a day af...
199. RAPE, KIDNAP BID PROBED Chicago Police are investigating a Tuesday rape on the S...