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Daylight saving time: 2 steps forward, one hour back
When you turned back by one hour your clocks, watches, microwaves and thermostats this morning, most of the nation did the same. It wasn't always so simple.
In fact, for decades, the fight over "fast time," "summer time," "Wilson time," "war time,"...Tags: Easter, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Woodrow Wilson, Standards, Energy Saving
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April 17: Poll Results
WGN NewsMORNING NEWS POLL: Are you concerned about security in Chicago during the NATO summit? Yes: 40% No: 60% MIDDAY NEWS POLL: Until this scandal, were you aware of what the General Services Administration did with your tax dollars? Yes: 10% No: 90%...Tags: Politics, Egypt, Elections, NATO, India
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Vegging out: Get kids and teens to eat more plants
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a post on nutrition topics for The Baltimore Sun's Picture of Health blog (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth). This week, Faith Hicks weighs in on encouraging kids to eat...Tags: Cabbage, Recipes, Hospitals and Clinics, India, Egg Whites
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Mt. Washington Tavern expects to re-open by mid-fall; cause of fire is 'not fully ascertainable'
The Baltimore SunMt. Washington Tavern, which was gutted by a two-alarm fire late last year, expects to re-open mid-fall, co-owner Rob Frisch said this week. Meanwhile, the Baltimore City Fire Department has listed the cause of the fire as "not fully ascertainable."...Tags: Pimlico, Preakness Stakes, India, Dining and Drinking, Egypt
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Judge: Grandmother must stay in jail and face charges
SOUTH BEND — A judge on Tuesday refused to lower the $15,000 jail bond of a local grandmother accused of neglecting her grandchildren while they allegedly suffered abuse.St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jane Woodward Miller noted that 53-year-old...Tags: Judges, Abusive Behavior, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Teacher Pleads 'Not Guilty' To Pedophile Accusations
pix11.com | @colekirstinHow much DO you have to pay to keep your kids away from perverted teachers? Apparently, $42,000 a year isn't enough. At the super exclusive Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, students get access to Ivy League educated teachers, a gorgeous campus,...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Lawyers, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Chelsea (Manhattan, New York)
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John Wayne Gacy's lawyer speaks out
WGN NewsTwo months ago, WGN brought you the story of a retired police detective, who says there could be more victims of John Wayne Gacy, buried on the northwest side of Chicago. The Cook County Sherrif's Dept said it would consider reopening the investigation....Tags: WGN, John Wayne Gacy
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City schools with federal turnaround grants have mixed results
Once students hurled computers out the windows at Calverton Middle School, but today they are learning on state-of-the-art technology that has flooded into the West Baltimore school. Once teachers couldn't wait to transfer out of a place where students...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Crossroads, Arts
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Man freed from death row now charged with retail theft
Tribune reporterA former death row inmate whose release from prison in 1999 provided a crucial spark in the push to abolish Illinois’ death penalty was back behind bars today, accused of stealing four deodorants from a store on Chicago’s South Side, Cook...Tags: Lawyers, George Ryan, Punishment, Crimes, Prosecution
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Man slain, another wounded in Bronzeville shootings
A 25-year-old man was killed and a 34-year-old man was robbed and shot during separate attacks in the Bronzeville neighborhood Monday night, police said. The fatal shooting took place at 8:35 p.m. on the 600 block of East 45th Street, said Chicago Police...
Tags: Health, Theft, Shootings, Bronzeville, Murder
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DCFS director: High caseload problem 'out of hand'
The caseloads of state child-welfare investigators have "gotten out of hand," climbing so high in many cases that they no longer comply with federal requirements, an official said Wednesday. Richard Calica, the director of the Illinois Department of...
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High DCFS caseloads raise red flags
Fred Pennix recently drove into Chicago's crime-ridden Englewood neighborhood to check on two of the nearly 40 families under his watch as a state child-protection investigator. It was a holiday but, worried about the children's safety, he was going to...Tags: Robert Harris, Career and Workplace, Newspaper and Magazine, Englewood, American Civil Liberties Union
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