Doggone Birds
This story originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune on July 6, 2006. Like a furry rocket, Max the border collie streaked across Foster Avenue Beach on Wednesday, a blur to...
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City body hauler hauls in big fees
Police call them the body snatchers, and their invasion from Ohio began in 2004 when a Dayton company called GSSP Enterprises Inc. won a city contract for the grim but...
Dentist tells of day girl fell into coma
The Little Village dentist whose 5-year-old patient lapsed into a coma and later died said Friday he improperly documented the treatment of the sedated child and left her in the...
1,500 join Bush protest in Loop
Many of the protesters marching through downtown Thursday against the Bush administration were veteran activists, but the demonstration was a first for Gina Latinovich. After learning of the event from...
Girl still in coma after dental surgery
As a 5-year-old Chicago girl lay in a coma Monday after what her family said was a routine dental procedure, experts reminded parents that they have a right to ensure...
Spinach sickens 114 in U.S.
The nation's contaminated spinach crisis touched its first person in Illinois, an elderly woman from north-central LaSalle County who has been hospitalized the past week with kidney failure, state public...
Mother, son found slain
The last time Stephanie Lee's family heard from her Saturday night she was in good spirits and about to meet her sister at a friend's house, her family said. Her...
Just when they were on a roll
On Thursday afternoon, 13 rebels climbed atop high-tech transportation gadgets and threw caution to the wind. Hours after it was announced that a software glitch on the Segway self-balancing scooter...
`We’re here today to always remember’
Time came to a standstill at 7:46 a.m. Monday on a busy block in downtown Chicago. Outside Holy Name Cathedral, politicians stood silent, clergymen bowed their heads and passersby paused...
Roommate queried about slaying
Police said the woman who fled to Wisconsin after quarreling with a roommate later found dead in their North Side apartment is cooperating with the investigation into the woman's death....