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Ocean City prepares for possible arrival of Uber drivers

August 23, 2019 at 11:59 a.m.

Ocean City officials are preparing for a possible expansion of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft in the resort town. The Daily Times reports Uber started advertising last month...

BNSF: Oil train derailment near Galena involved safer tank cars

May 25, 2019 at 12:35 p.m.

The two rail cars that split open and burst into flames when an oil train derailed near Galena were retrofitted with protective shields to meet a higher safety standard than...

Famed New York Times media columnist David Carr dies at age 58

August 18, 2019 at 6:45 p.m.

Media columnist David Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for The New York Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at his office and...

A broken snow shovel lies in the snow Feb. 2, 2015, at Lemoyne Street and Washtenaw Avenue in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood.

13 Chicago-area deaths related to shoveling snow

May 22, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.

At least 13 people have died in Cook and DuPage counties while shoveling "heart attack" snow during the recent blizzard, according to officials. Ten of the deaths occurred in Cook...

Woman steers bus to safety after driver collapses: ‘I just said I gotta live tonight’

May 22, 2019 at 7:11 p.m.

Jill Bien was headed back to Norridge after a lousy day at a Wisconsin casino when her luck began to change. For the better, though it didn't seem so at...

Trial delayed for Chicago man accused in SIU threat case

May 22, 2019 at 7:08 p.m.

A federal trial has been delayed for a Chicago man accused of mailing threats of beheadings, bombings and other violence to Southern Illinois University's Carbondale campus. Twenty-one-year-old Derrick Dawon Burns'...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is looking to Wall Street to borrow money as part of his budget plan.

Emanuel pension law challenged in court second time

May 15, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

A second lawsuit has been filed challenging the legality of changes to the city worker pension system Mayor Rahm Emanuel won earlier this year. This time, attorney Clint Krislov sued...

Two monarch butterflies feed on a Blazing Star plant at the USDA Forest Service's Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington, Ill., in this 2006 file photo.

Monarch butterflies could get federal protection

June 1, 2019 at 3:47 a.m.

As their numbers and habitat shrink, monarch butterflies could get U.S. Endangered Species Act protection. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Monday that a petition requesting federal protections...

Schoolchildren hold posters condemning the attack by Taliban militants on Pakistani mourners hold a funeral ceremony for victims of an attack by Taliban militants at the Army Public School in Peshawar.

‘Then the men came with big guns’: More than 100 killed in assault on Pakistani school

May 17, 2019 at 11:16 a.m.

It began like any other morning in Pakistan's Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Students pored over their books. Teachers ruffled through their notes and gave lectures....

Missouri governor says violence won’t be tolerated after Ferguson grand jury ruling

June 22, 2019 at 10:14 p.m.

While the St. Louis area remains on edge awaiting a grand jury decision in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.,...

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