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  • Chicago man crushes Ferris Wheel ride world record

    A man from Chicago rode Ferris Wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - to break the existing world record. Clinton Shepherd, a park operations manager of Chicago's Navy Pier, who spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel over the weekend, said that he thought that Chicago - birthplace of the ride - should have the title, People magazine ...

  • Ofman It’s Time For Replay In Baseball

    Major League Baseball is considering replay for every call except balls and strikes and you know that will fester its way into the game one day soon. The NFL looks at just about everything except plays in which Jay Cutler sneers at fellow teammates. Thank goodness it's not an infraction though someone in the rules committee with an axe to grind will probably suggest sneering become a ...

  • Lightning Strikes Damage Two Homes Overnight

    CHICAGO (CBS) – At least two homes in the Chicago area were struck by lightning overnight as heavy thunderstorms plowed through the region. CBS 2's Susanna Song reports strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning made for a very disruptive night in the Chicago area. Early Tuesday, the Cook County Board Up service was in the Little Village neighborhood, where at least one home ...

  • Four Teens Wounded In Austin Shooting

    CHICAGO (STMW) – Four people were hurt in a gang-related shooting after large groups of teenagers started fighting in the street Monday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood. About 9:30 p.m., someone in a light-colored sedan drove by the fight in the 5300 block of West Iowa Street and opened fire, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro ...

  • Alleged Mugger Crashes Stolen Car Into Semi On I-80

    JOLIET, Ill. (STMW) – Police say a Joliet man mugged two elderly women in different grocery stores before crashing a stolen car into a semi-truck on Saturday. Joliet Cmdr. Al Roechner said Matthew J. Boban's crime spree began at 11:55 a.m. when he arrived at Jewel, 1401 W. Jefferson St. Boban allegedly had asked a 32-year-old friend to bring him and his girlfriend to an ATM so he ...


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War of the Worlds (2005)

War of the Worlds (2005)

In a seemingly benign, yet ultimately ominous line of dialogue early in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, the ex-wife of Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), a New York dock worker and generally deadbeat dad, says to him after dropping off their two kids for the weekend, "Take c ... ...

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  • Police Seek Help Identifying Female Homicide Victim

    CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are asking for help to identify the body of woman or teen girl found strangled and badly burned in a Northwest Side Avondale neighborhood Dumpster Sunday night. Firefighters found the charred body after putting out a Dumpster blaze in an alley in the 3100 block of North Kimball Avenue about 11:05 p.m. An autopsy Monday found the person was strangled, and ruled the ...

  • Chicago Red Cross Joining Tornado Relief Effort In Oklahoma

    People assess the damage after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado, reported to be at least EF4 strength and two miles wide, touched down in the Oklahoma City area on Monday killing at least 51 people. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty ...

  • Boeheim on Melos title hopes Not on that team MAY 21

    07:10 AM ET 05.21 | His former head coach has picked a side, and it's squarely in the corner of his one-time star forward. Jim Boeheim maintains little hope that former Syracuse ...

  • Muhammad believes hes the best player in the draft MAY 21

    07:09 AM ET 05.21 | While Shabazz Muhammad's draft stock may be slipping in some circles, he certainly hasn't lost any faith in himself. [The] weeks leading up to the June 27 draft will be about altering negative perceptions about his character and his game. "Being the number one guy, everybody wants you to fall," Muhammad said last week at the NBA draft combine in Chicago. ...

  • Lakers chief rivals for Howard MAY 21

    Dwight Howard 's version of The Decision. The pitches he will get after the second leg of this journey, the ones that will likely come from Houston, Dallas and Atlanta, among others (after July 1), will no doubt be very different. And yes, he intends to listen to those pitches, and no, he won't give ...

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