Chicago Tribune reporter Ray Long provides details on the U.S. appeals court ruling regarding concealed weapons in Illinois. ...
Web host Go Daddy appoints former Yahoo executive as CEO
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Go Daddy, one of the world’s biggest Internet hosting firms, appointed Yahoo Inc‘s former Chief Product Officer Blake Irving as chief executive.He will take over from interim CEO Scott Wagner on January 7. Irving left Yahoo, where he headed a centralized products group that straddled several client types, on April 27.“Blake Irving’s deep technology experience and his history of developing...
FX orders “Tyrant” from “Homeland” producers
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – FX has ordered the Middle Eastern drama pilot “Tyrant” from “Homeland” producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff, as well as “Six Feet Under” and “Lost” producer Craig Wright.The pilot follows an American family drawn into the troubles of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. The series, written and created by Raff, was developed by Gordon and Wright. The pilot comes from Gordon’s...
Global Update: Hand-Held Device Locates Hot Spots of Lead Contamination
Label: HealthUsing a hand-held scanner to map hot spots where the soil is full of lead could protect children in mining towns against brain damage, scientists at Columbia University concluded in a new study. Touched to the ground, the device, an X-ray fluorescence scanner, can measure the soil’s lead content in less than a minute, said Alexander van Geen, a geochemist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty...
Dec
10
McDonald's sales rebound in November
Label: Business McDonald’s took Wall Street by surprise Monday morning, with a November same store sales report that beat expectations and showed...
Daley nephew pleads not guilty in 2004 beating death
Label: WorldChicago Tribune criminal courts reporter Jason Meisner discusses the case of Richard Vanecko, who pleaded not guilty this morning to a charge of involuntary manslaughter. (Posted on: Dec. 10, 2012) ...
Mind: A Compromise on Defining and Diagnosing Mental Disorders
Label: HealthThey plotted a revolution, fell to debating among themselves, and in the end overturned very little except their own expectations. But the effort itself was a valuable guide for anyone who has received a psychiatric diagnosis, or anyone who might get one. This month, the American Psychiatric Association announced that its board of trustees had approved the fifth edition of the association’s...
Dec
09
WGN America may be channel of change for Tribune Co.
Label: Business On Sunday night, WGN-Ch. 9 will air "Bozo's Circus: The Lost Tape," a 1971 episode that an alert archivist discovered after...
4th quarter: Vikings 21, Bears 7
Label: World MINNEAPOLIS -- As snow steadily descended outside the Metrodome on Sunday, the Chicago Bears were reminded that their playoff...
U.S. judge names lead plaintiffs in Facebook litigation
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of investors including state pension funds in North Carolina and Arkansas will be the lead plaintiffs in securities lawsuits arising out of Facebook Inc’s $ 16 billion initial public offering, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.The investors, in a proposed class-action case, have accused Facebook of misrepresenting its financial condition in the run-up to the May stock offering....
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