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Medical workers remove a body from a refrigerated truck outside of the Brooklyn Hospital on March 31, 2020 in New York, United States. Due to a surge in deaths caused by the Coronavirus, hospitals are using refrigerated trucks as make shift morgues.

More people are thinking about their wills, forcing lawyers to improvise

March 26, 2020 at 11:01 a.m.

The rising death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is prompting more people, from young health care professionals to the elderly, to prepare their wills in a hurry — a task...

Robert Plant, left, and Jimmy Page of the band Led Zeppelin attend the Kennedy Center Honors reception at the White House on Sunday, December 2, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

Led Zeppelin to face retrial over ‘Stairway’ theft claims

December 12, 2018 at 5:51 p.m.

Led Zeppelin must go back on trial in a lawsuit that accuses the classic rock grandees of stealing the opening chords of "Stairway to Heaven" from an obscure 1968 instrumental....

Child slavery claims against Nestle, Cargill get one more chance

March 28, 2019 at 8:53 p.m.

Six men forced into slavery as boys to harvest cocoa pods have a second chance to go after some of the world's biggest chocolate companies in U.S. court, saying the...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Ready to rock out at Zeppelin ‘Stairway’ trial? Try sheet music

June 10, 2018 at 1:04 p.m.

Anyone with Internet access can listen for themselves to whether Led Zeppelin's opening "Stairway to Heaven" riff rips off a song recorded three years earlier. But the jury deciding the...

Suit charges hotel price fixing

November 3, 2021 at 3:51 p.m.

Expedia Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Marriott International Inc. are among online travel sites and hotels accused of conspiring to fix prices for hotel rooms. The sites...

Suit charges hotel price fixing

May 9, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Expedia Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Marriott International Inc. are among online travel sites and hotels accused of conspiring to fix prices for hotel rooms. The sites...

Mattel seeks to shut down Bratz production

August 22, 2021 at 3:57 a.m.

Mattel Inc., maker of the Barbie doll, wants to follow up a copyright-infringement victory against MGA Entertainment Inc. with a court order to seize all MGA's Bratz dolls and ban...

Ex-Homestore executive pleads guilty

August 21, 2021 at 10:45 a.m.

The former vice president of business development at Homestore.com Inc., the largest provider of Internet home listings, pleaded guilty to helping to artificially inflate revenue, federal prosecutors said. Peter Tafeen,...

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