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    Mar 10, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. David S. Broder dies at 81; Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist

    David S. Broder, one of the nation's leading political reporters and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973 for distinguished commentary about the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 81.
    David S. Broder, one of the nation's leading political reporters and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973 for distinguished commentary about the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 81. Broder, a longtime columnist at the Washington Post, died Wednesday at...

    Tags: U.S. Army, Meet the Press (tv program), Politics, Chicago Cubs, Awards and Prizes

  2. Nov 28, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Insurers learn to pinpoint risks -- and avoid them

    NEWARK, CALIF. — Hemant Shah is in the business of creating catastrophes.
    Times Staff Writer
    NEWARK, CALIF. — Hemant Shah is in the business of creating catastrophes. The computers at Shah's Silicon Valley company, Risk Management Solutions Inc., contain mathematical models of every U.S. disaster from the 1812 earthquake that toppled...

    Tags: Farms, Mortgages, Allstate Corp., Family, Vehicles

  4. Apr 6, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. From supporting actor to star, Richard Jenkins steps up in 'The Visitor'

    THERE is no such thing as a Richard Jenkins movie, though he's been in more than 70 of them. Even in  his best-known role -- as the mortuary paterfamilias, Nathaniel Fisher, on the HBO series "Six Feet Under" -- Jenkins was dead, haunting the characters from the margins, a figment of their inner lives.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    THERE is no such thing as a Richard Jenkins movie, though he's been in more than 70 of them. Even in his best-known role -- as the mortuary paterfamilias, Nathaniel Fisher, on the HBO series "Six Feet Under" -- Jenkins was dead, haunting the characters...

    Tags: Step Brothers (movie), HBO (tv network), Career and Workplace, Richard Jenkins, The Visitor (movie)

  6. Jun 7, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Salvaged in style

    CARRIE CARR knows a good piece of trash when she sees it. Take the kitchen cabinet that she salvaged from an apartment building under renovation and turned into a glass-fronted display case. Or the living room piece — "my gangsta coffee table," she says — that she found abandoned in a Chicago alley and repainted in a glossy, Regency-esque black. Or the humble shelf she scooped up off a street corner and now uses as a stage for her collection of McCoy pottery.
    Times Staff Writer
    CARRIE CARR knows a good piece of trash when she sees it. Take the kitchen cabinet that she salvaged from an apartment building under renovation and turned into a glass-fronted display case. Or the living room piece — "my gangsta coffee table,"...

    Tags: Craigslist, Inc., Family, Clothing and Textiles Industry, New Products, Real Estate Sales

  8. Dec 5, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. Doris J. Dungey dies at 47; She wrote a highly regarded blog on the mortgage industry meltdown

    Doris J. Dungey, an influential blogger who under the pseudonym Tanta wrote about the failing U.S. mortgage industry, died of ovarian cancer Nov. 30 at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. She was 47. Dungey wrote for Calculated Risk, a...

    Tags: Princeton University, Mortgages, Obituaries, Death, The Washington Post

  10. May 20, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  11. Despite need, no county mental health money used for housing

    The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
    The chronically mentally ill are more likely to be chronically poor and homeless, advocates say, leaving them vulnerable to funding decisions of legislators and service providers that decide how limited public money is spent. As state dollars for...

    Tags: Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Mental Illness, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance

  12. May 17, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  13. B-N Boys & Girls Club names interim chief professional officer

    The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
    A Boys & Girls Club professional with a history of turning around financially struggling clubs has been named interim chief professional officer of Boys & Girls Club of Bloomington-Normal. Jodi Martin, who most recently served as interim executive...

    Tags: Elgin

  14. May 19, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  15. The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill., Randy Kindred column

    The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
    Larry Lyons bleeds red, same as you and me. However, his is a specific shade, tinted by a quarter century-plus in Illinois State's athletic department. When you're built that way, when you ooze Redbird red, it had to cut deep two years ago when Lyons --...
  16. May 19, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  17. Jail fills mental health need, for better or worse

    The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
    The McLean County jail's de facto role as Bloomington-Normal's largest provider of residential mental health services fits a trend seen across the country -- a troubling and unsatisfactory solution to the problem of helping those who are among the poorest...

    Tags: Chemical Industry, Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Politics, Mental Illness

  18. May 19, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  19. Breakfast club: Chicago-area pilots fly to B-N for food

    The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
    The smell of scrambled eggs, bacon and pancakes hangs in the air inside CJ's Restaurant as more than a dozen private airplanes make a landing outside on a recent Sunday. The 18 pilots and their passengers, 33 people in total, flew into Central...

    Tags: Electronics, Palatine, Lifestyle and Leisure, Chicago Restaurants, Science and Technology

  20. May 19, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  21. Employees give their time Sat. during Nicor Gas Volunteer Day

    The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
    Ivory Steele has an intellectual disability, has spent much of his life in state institutions and is largely nonverbal. But on Saturday morning, sitting in his wheelchair outside Marcfirst, 1606 Hunt Drive, Normal, he reached out to two day lilies, said...

    Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Habitat for Humanity International, Nicor Incorporated, Human Interest, American Red Cross

  22. May 19, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  23. BRIEF: Wrong-way driver crashes into police car

    The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
    A LeRoy police officer avoided injury late Friday when a driver of a second vehicle sideswiped his police car while traveling in the wrong direction on Interstate 74 near the LeRoy exit. Neither police officer Brian H. Taylor, 37, of LeRoy, nor the...

    Tags: Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents

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