Dead soldier was coming home
A soldier from central Illinois who told his father recently that he would be home soon died Tuesday in Iraq, U.S. Department of Defense announced Thursday. He is the second Illinois resident killed in Iraq in the last week. Army Pfc. Robert A. Liggett, 23, of Urbana died from injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident in Rustamiyah, Iraq, a Defense Department statement said. His death is under investigation.
Search continues for missing Oak Park woman
Searchers at Harding Lake near Fairbanks, Alaska, found no sign of two missing campers Friday — including a suburban Chicago woman. The body of 20-year-old Liza Lomando was pulled from the lake Tuesday. She was last seen Sunday in a canoe with co-workers Travis Alexander and Kathy Garrigan of Oak Park. The three Ameri-Corps volunteers were spending the Memorial Day weekend at a campground.
Google buys Chicago company
Search giant Google Inc. purchased Chicago-based FeedBurner Inc. on Friday, finalizing a deal that had been rumored since last week. The purchase price was not disclosed, but a figure of roughly $100 million was cited when the talks first surfaced. FeedBurner provides RSS feeds, short for “really simple syndication,” a technique that delivers news and blog posts directly to a user’s computer or mobile device.
