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  • Divers Pull Body From Lake Michigan On South Side

    Chicago Police officers stand along the shore of Lake Michigan near Oakwood Boulevard, as a Police Marine Unit boat prepares to recover a body found in the water on June 19, 2013. (Credit: ...

  • Man Shot To Death In South Suburban Homewood

    HOMEWOOD, Ill. (STMW) – A man who was recently shot in south suburban Homewood died late Tuesday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's ...

  • Bike Cops Nab Thief Who Knocked Over Woman On Crutches

    CHICAGO (STMW) – A thief accused of knocking over a woman on crutches and then stealing her cell phone during a Tuesday evening robbery in the Loop is expected in court Wednesday morning, police said. Clayton Jones, 23, was arrested by Chicago bicycle police after a concerned citizen flagged officers down following the robbery in the 100 block of North State Street, police said early ...

  • Two Shot Within Blocks Of Each Other In Greater Grand Crossing

    CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are investigating a pair of shootings that occurred blocks apart during a roughly one-hour time span early Wednesday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. It was not immediately clear if the two shootings were related, police said. In one case the shooting victims was not cooperative with investigators, police said. In the other instance the victim provided ...

  • Cavs coming up empty for top-pick deal JUN 19

    Cavs have been talking to teams for weeks about a trade, but they are finding a limited market and at this point are likely to keep the pick. Sources in Cleveland strongly suggest that ...


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The Burning [DVD]

The Burning [DVD]

Everybody has to start somewhere, and for Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the independent producer/distributors who founded Miramax Pictures and helped reignite the fire of American independent cinema in the early 1990s, it was a cheap Friday the 13th-knockoff called The Burning. Pro ... ...

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  • Likelihood Dallas keeps its pick Zero percent JUN 19

    Mavericks having the 13th overall draft pick on their opening-day roster next season at 0 percent. There is an 80-percent chance that the pick is traded before or, more likely, during the draft, the source said. There is at least a 15-percent chance that the pick is a foreign player who is under contract and can be left overseas for a year and not count against ...

  • Zeller to the 76ers JUN 19

    07:11 AM ET 06.19 | One cannot teach height, and Cody Zeller certainly has that particular part of the game covered -- even if some question his NBA upside. I've long dismissed the notion that ...

  • Warriors Jackson the anti-Nelson on new deal JUN 19

    07:10 AM ET 06.19 | Mark Jackson brings a certain zen quality that Don Nelson lacked. So: Jackson is not going to scheme for a bigger, longer contract this summer after leading ...

  • Doc Rivers may not return to Boston this season JUN 18

    Clippers to assume head coaching duties. But just because he's not heading to Los Angeles does not mean he's coming back to Boston. Danny Ainge's promise from last month seems about as reliable and useful as a weather report on Mars, and Rivers' future with ...

  • James Heat Beat Spurs 103-100 In OT Force Game 7

    LeBron James #6 of the Miami Heat drives on Tony Parker #9 of the San Antonio Spurs in the second half during Game Six of the 2013 NBA Finals at AmericanAirlines Arena on June 18, 2013 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty ...

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