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  • Home Minister Shinde in Washington India seeks access to Rana Headley

    India has sought access from the US to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana, both of undergoing sentence awarded by a Chicago court after being found guilty of terrorism charges. While there was no official word from either side on the issues discussed in particular those with reference to Headley and Rana, officials said it was prominently ...

  • Gang Member Gets 25 Years For Double Homicide In Griffith

    HAMMOND, Ind. (STMW) – A Latin Kings street gang member will serve 25 years in prison in connection with his part in the double homicide outside a Griffith restaurant in February 2007. The sentence is five years less than Jason Ortiz's co-defendant Martin Anaya received earlier Thursday at his sentencing hearing at the U.S. District Court in Hammond. Both men were sentenced in ...

  • Census Data Chicago Slowest Growing Big City In U.S.

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. It was the second year in a row that population grew here, but the increase so far shows no signs of making up for the loss of 200,000 people over the previous decade, according to a report in ...

  • Chicago Man Shot And Killed In Calumet City

    CALUMET CITY, Ill. (STMW) – A 35-year-old South Side man was shot to death in south suburban Calumet City early Thursday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's ...

  • Jury Deliberates Whether Trump ‘Conned’ 87-Year-Old Woman

    CHICAGO (STMW) – Is Donald Trump a "reprehensible" conman who ripped off an Evanston grandmother and "stole her faith in other people?" Or is the real estate magnate being unfairly sued by a "sophisticated investor" who bought two hotel condos in the Trump Tower "with her eyes wide open" but got buyer's remorse and backed out? Those -- in a ...


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Black Narcissus [DVD]

Black Narcissus [DVD]

There are precious few films that have the incredible sense of place that pervades every frame of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgers Black Narcissus, although the ultimate irony is that all of its locations are studio set fabrications whose artifice is never entirely tr ... ...

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  • Two Hurt When CTA Bus Crashes Into Building In Chicago Lawn

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Two people were taken to the hospital early Thursday, after a CTA bus crashed into a building. WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports police said someone cut off the #52A Kedzie bus around 4:45 a.m. as it was driving north on Kedzie Avenue near 64th Street, with at least one set of the bus wheels rolling on wet metal sheeting covering roadwork on ...

  • McHenry Officials Warn Of Rental Property Scams

    (CBS) – Authorities in McHenry County have warned residents about a housing scam that tricks would-be renters into sending money to rent a place that’s not even on the market. WBBM’s Steve Miller reports it’s a scam where the scammers used to operate mostly in other countries. ';It is no longer just a foreign, overseas scam. It is now becoming a local situation, ...

  • Police Warn Of Smart Phone Thefts In Bronzeville

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Police are seeking two teenaged thieves, who allegedly stole smart phones twice in the past week on or near 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood, near the IIT ...

  • Mavs shopping pick eyeing Howard MAY 23

    Mavericks ], with their first lottery draft pick in a dozen years firmly in hand, have their eyes on a bigger prize. Multiple sources have told ESPN.com's Chad Ford ...

  • How Oklahoma coach helped save Schaumburg couple

    The water heater in the foreground likely played a role in helping save Schaumburg Trustee Frank Kozak and his wife, Char, when they were in Moore, Okla., visiting Char's brother ...

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