The U.S. economy barely grew in the fourth quarter although a slightly better performance in exports and fewer imports led the...
Feb
27
Chicago archdiocese to close or consolidate five schools
Label: World The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is laying off about 10 percent of its work force and is planning to close or consolidate...
Feb
26
Chicago pelted by snow, sleet
Label: World A winter weather advisory has been issued for today as the Chicago area is getting hit with sleet, freezing rain and snow from...
Cellar victim Kampusch raped, starved in film of ordeal
Label: LifestyleVIENNA (Reuters) – A new film based on the story of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch shows her being repeatedly raped by the captor who beat and starved her during the eight-and-a-half years that he kept her in a cellar beneath his house.Kampusch was snatched on her way to school at the age of 10 by Wolfgang Priklopil and held in a windowless cell under his garage near Vienna until she escaped...
JPMorgan to eliminate 4,000 jobs in 2013
Label: Business JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to cut 3,000 to 4,000 jobs in its consumer bank in 2013, representing about 1.5 percent of the...
Feb
25
Oscars analysis: 'Argo,' Ang Lee are night's big winners
Label: World Blowing past the distant Civil War history of “Lincoln” and the more controversial recent history of “Zero Dark Thirty,” director and star Ben Affleck’s rousing, reassuringly apolitical thriller “Argo” won Sunday’s Academy Award for best picture.This was a rebuke to the very academy bestowing the prize: Affleck failed to receive a directing nomination...
Horsemeat found in IKEA meatballs
Label: Business PRAGUE/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's IKEA stopped nearly all sales of meatballs at its furniture store cafeterias across Europe...
Feb
24
Daytona 500 still a go despite accident that injured fans
Label: World DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — ...
Promise, peril seen for crowd-funding investors
Label: Business Crowd funding is widely seen as a revolutionary idea.A 2012 federal law known as the JOBS Act opens the door to allowing small,...
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