August 2009

RosenBlog: Got five minutes? Cutler will give you seven points

By Admin on August 31, 2009

Every team needs a two-minute offense. Good ones have an efficient four-minute package. But with Jay Cutler, the Bears have a five-minute drill just in case they ever need 98 yards at the end of a game.

Kids playing with lighter sparked Joliet warehouse fire

By Admin on August 31, 2009

Joliet police say two 11-year-old girls playing with a cigarette lighter started a fire at a tire recycling facility that turned into an extra-alarm blaze Sunday night.

“It’s arson, but it’s more like kids playing with a lighter,” Cmdr. Mike Trafton said today. The fire at Tire Grinders Transporters at 175 S. Desplaines St. began around 7:30 p.m. and lasted nearly two hours.

Joliet firefighters, including Christian Conroy (center), tend to smoldering rubble, today after a Sunday night fire destroyed two warehouses at a tire recycling company on DesPlaines Street in Joliet. No injuries were reported from the fire. (David Pierini/Chicago Tribune)

Trafton said the facility, consisting of two buildings, “looks completely destroyed.” The girls, who live nearby, entered the facility.

“They were playing where they shouldn’t have been,” Trafton said.

The girls have been turned over to their parents, pending review by the Will County state’s attorney’s office, the commander said.

–Dennis Sullivan

GM: Harden was ‘biggest non-story’

By Admin on August 31, 2009

The Cubs never really came close to trading Rich Harden to Minnesota, general manager Jim Hendry suggested before Monday night’s game against Houston.

ESPN’s Andrews to Oprah: Nude video was ‘nightmare’

By Admin on August 31, 2009

CHICAGO (AP) — ESPN reporter Erin Andrews said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that having secretly videotaped nude footage of her distributed on the Internet was a “nightmare.”

Pow! Disney captures Spider-Man, Iron Man and other Marvel characters in $4 billion deal

By Admin on August 31, 2009

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. is punching its way into the universe of superheroes and their male fans with a deal announced Monday to acquire Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion, bringing characters such as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and “Toy Story.”

Arroyo-to-Bulls report false

By Admin on August 31, 2009

Peavy update, Sox still need Thursday starter vs. Cubs

By Admin on August 31, 2009

Group asks for enforcement of parental notice law

By Admin on August 31, 2009

CHICAGO — The Illinois Supreme Court is being asked to make sure regulators are holding doctors immediately accountable for notifying unmarried girls’ parents before performing an abortion.

The Chicago-based Thomas More Society filed a motion today on behalf of 10 plaintiffs, including parents of daughters.

The plaintiffs want the court to order the state to rescind a 90-day period for doctors to get up to speed on their obligations under the law, which took effect Aug. 4.

The Thomas More Society says doctors have had enough time. The law was enacted 14 years ago. Court challenges delayed it from being enforced.

Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation spokeswoman Susan Hofer says the agency is reviewing the motion.

– Associated Press

Recorded telemarketing calls illegal without written permission begins

By Admin on August 31, 2009

Banks, debt collectors, political parties, charities exempt

You soon may be hearing a lot fewer of those maddening pre-recorded telephone pitches for everything from car insurance to debt consolidation services.

Recorded telemarketing calls illegal without written permission beginning today

By Admin on August 31, 2009

Banks, debt collectors, political parties, charities exempt

You soon may be hearing a lot fewer of those maddening pre-recorded telephone pitches for everything from car insurance to debt consolidation services.

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