SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Comedian Katt Williams has been arrested in northern California on a felony warrant related to a police chase.The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/UNq5QW ) that Williams was arrested Friday night in Dunnigan, about 25 miles north of Sacramento, by Yolo County deputies.The paper says he was released from the county jail Saturday after posting bail.The sheriff’s department...
New Taxes to Take Effect to Fund Health Care Law
Label: HealthWASHINGTON — For more than a year, politicians have been fighting over whether to raise taxes on high-income people. They rarely mention that affluent Americans will soon be hit with new taxes adopted as part of the 2010 health care law. The new levies, which take effect in January, include an increase in the payroll tax on wages and a tax on investment income, including interest, dividends...
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...
Dec
08
Man killed in extra-alarm fire
Label: World Workers board up a burned home in La Grange on Saturday. The fire broke out early this morning, killing a man and sending...
FCC chairman urges FAA to revise in-flight iPad rules
Label: TechnologyNo, it doesn’t make any sense that you have to turn off your iPad or Kindle during airplane landings, and now the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission wants to see that change. In a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski urged the agency to “enable greater use of tablets, e-readers, and other portable devices” on flights, The Hill reports. Genachowski...
Springsteen, Alabama Shakes top Rolling Stone’s 2012 best music
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen and newcomer blues-rock band Alabama Shakes landed the top awards in Rolling Stone magazine‘s annual list of the year’s best music on Friday, which featured many of next year’s leading Grammy nominees.Springsteen‘s 17th studio album “Wrecking Ball” topped the magazine’s list of best albums, with the magazine calling it “rock’s most pointed response...
Integrys Energy Services tapped to supply Chicago's electricity
Label: Business The same company that heats homes in Chicago has been picked to provide the electricity that powers them.Integrys Energy Services,...
Dec
07
Crews recover WWII fighter plane near Waukegan
Label: World It had been on the bottom of Lake Michigan for nearly 70 years. But a World War II-era fighter plane was finally retrieved Friday....
“Dancing with the Stars” Burke says voice fine after thyroid surgery
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Dancing with the Stars” co-host Brooke Burke said on Thursday that her surgery for thyroid cancer had gone well and that she had not lost her voice.“Thank God it’s over. I’m clean, surgery went well & I can talk. Losing my voice was my biggest fear. Thx for all your prayers & light,” Burke said in a Twitter posting.Burke, 41, a former winner of ABC-TV’s popular celebrity...
Lurie Children's Hospital sees surge in patients at new Chicago building
Label: Business Executives at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago expected a "bump" in patients when the $855 million...
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