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Chicago's black legal community meets to stem youth violence
Herschella Conyers is an attorney who, along with several judges, recently invited a bunch of people to the University of Chicago to talk about violence and the growing number of teens getting entangled in the criminal justice system. Typically, these...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Barack Obama, University of Chicago, Teaching and Learning, Criminals
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Vietnam, Civil Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Social Issues
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Illinois Catholic couple taking on Obama over contraception mandate
An Oak Brook health care company and its Roman Catholic owners who don't want to include birth control in their employees' benefits still have no choice, despite exceptions to the contraception mandate proposed by the Obama administration this month....
Tags: Health Treatments, U.S. Supreme Court, Oak Brook, Freedom of Religion, Retraining
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Torrance attorney Gavin Wasserman named to campaign watchdog panel
PolitiCalState Controller John Chiang appointed Torrance attorney Gavin Wasserman to serve on the panel that enforces campaign finance and conflict-of-interest laws, bypassing a more controversial figure also vying for the seat.... -
Part four: Bankruptcy Inc.
Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...
Tags: Aurelius Capital Management, LP, Corporate Crime, Bruce Karsh, Kenneth Liang, Seton Hall University
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Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons
Special to the TribuneLaura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...Tags: Psychology, David Hartman, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., DePaul University, Science and Technology
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Robert B. Murdock, 80
Robert Brevoort Murdock, 80, of 18717 Dover Drive in Hagerstown, Md., died Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., due to complications following valve replacement surgery. Born Aug. 4, 1932, in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was...
Tags: University of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington Hospital Center, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics
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Mental health care offers easy target for budget ax
Health care has dominated the headlines recently at the federal, state and local levels: The Supreme Court upholds the Affordable Care Act. Six of 12 Chicago-run community mental health clinics are shut, as is the state-run Tinley Park Mental Health...
Tags: Mental Illness, Symptoms, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Medicaid drug restrictions thus far seen as bitter pill for patients, providers
To illustrate the early problems the state is having as it makes large-scale cuts to its Medicaid program, consider the new limit on prescription drugs. For the most part, low-income people used to be able to get an unlimited number of prescriptions...
Tags: Health Treatments, Personal Income, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Physical Therapists
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Chicago lawyer accused of sexual assault at downtown hotel
Tribune reporterA Chicago real estate lawyer was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a Minnesota woman inside her Streeterville hotel room Tuesday after she left the door to her room open, prosecutors said today. Anthony Bergamino Jr., 49, was charged with one...Tags: Sex Crimes, Assault, Chicago Hotels, Lawyers, Justice System
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Aldermen move to ban minors from tanning salons
Skin cancer victims who ascribe their maladies to tanning salons persuaded a panel of Chicago aldermen Wednesday to bar tanning facilities from letting people younger than 18 use their equipment, even if the minors have the permission of a parent or...Tags: Navy Pier, Chicago, Debra L. Silverstein, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Mayor
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Judge rejects both competing plans in Tribune Co. bankruptcy case
Tribune reporterThe judge in Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy case on Monday rejected two competing plans for reorganizing the company, leaving the Chapter 11 proceeding unresolved after nearly three contentious years in court. In an expansive 126-page opinion, U.S....Tags: Corporate Crime, Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago Tribune, Crimes, Shareholders
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