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  • Jail Inmate Charged With Previous Murder Shooting In Robbins

    CHICAGO (STMW) – A Cook County Jail inmate faces new charges in connection with a 2012 murder and a separate 2011 shooting in south suburban Robbins, the Cook County Sheriff's office announced Saturday. Antwaan Bryant, 33, was booked into the jail in December 2012 on unrelated charges of attempted murder, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and violating bond, according to the ...

  • With dominant effort Wings even series at 1

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  • High-schoolers walk at Harper commencement

    Arianna Roldan, left, and Julia Mach are among a group of 18 high school students, 17 from Wheeling High School alone, who graduated with certified nursing assistant certificates Saturday at Harper College in ...

  • Palatine student wins 8th District art competition

    Palatine High School senior Alissa Froehling won the 31st annual Congressional High School Art Competition hosted by 8th District U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth. Froehling's winning black-and-white photo composition is titled ...

  • Wood out to tame Mets in rubber game

    As the Mets and Cubs navigate their way through the early part of the 2013 season, winning one series at a time is the most important step toward inching their records closer to the .500 mark. Each will have a chance on Sunday to claim the series, as left-hander Travis Wood takes the ball for the Cubs and right-hander Dillon Gee will pitch for the Mets in the rubber match of a three-game ...


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Movie Review

Taking Lives

Taking Lives

Taking Lives is a flat, derivative psycho-thriller that suffers badly from having no chemistry between its two leads. Director D.J. Caruso and cinematographer Amir M. Mokri, who worked together on 2002s The Salton Sea, complicate it further by bathing most o ... ...

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  • Oxbow Upsets Orb In Preakness

    Gary Stevens celebrates atop of Oxbow #6 as he crosses the finish line to win the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course . (Credit: Rob Carr, ...

  • New York Mets lose 8-2 to Chicago Cubs

    New York Mets staring pitcher Jeremy Hefner pitches to the Chicago Cubs in the first inning in a baseball game in Chicago on Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles ...

  • Rehabbing Danks could return to Sox next week

    Email ANAHEIM -- If all goes well Saturday night in Buffalo, then John Danks' fourth Minor League rehab start and third with Triple-A Charlotte could be his last. Danks' big league comeback from season-ending arthroscopic shoulder surgery on Aug. 6 of last season would be complete with what would most likely be a start Friday night at U.S. Cellular Field against the Marlins. Either ...

  • Hitting coach always had faith in players

    Email ANAHEIM -- The .299 average posted by the White Sox over the last five games, to go with 25 runs scored, was a welcome sight for Jeff Manto. To be honest, the always-optimistic White Sox hitting coach never had a doubt his group would come around. He also understands that when an offense goes stagnant, the job that Paul Konerko once referred to as the toughest one in all of sports always ...

  • Sox view .500 as just a starting point

    ANAHEIM -- After falling to a season-worst six games under .500, the White Sox are making a run back to the break-even point. That .500 mark is just a starting stage, according to Jake Peavy, who takes the mound in Sunday's series finale here. "We have a long way to go to be who we want to be," Peavy said. "But it's nice to get things started in the right ...

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