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Ted Lapidus Designer was known for '60s unisex fashions Ted Lapidus, 79, the French fashion designer who helped redefine chic with the 1960s unisex look, died Monday at a hospital in Cannes, on the French Riviera. He reportedly had been suffering from...

It's hardly a model for other activist shareholders to follow. Dissatisfied with the gradually sinking price of Tribune Co. shares, the Chandler family of California put the company in play, hoping an auction might boost the value of their major stake in...

WPHL-TV - now known as myphl17 - has been serving the community with quality programming for more than 40 years. The station signed on the air September 17, 1965, founded by a group of local businessmen and investors who sold it two years later to AVC...

This story contains corrected material, published April 7, 2007. The deal to take Tribune Co. private would end the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation's long standing as a major shareholder of the company, but other ties between the Chicago-based...

Vera Glaser, a veteran Washington reporter whose tough question to President Richard Nixon about the role of women in his administration led to changes in the recruiting policies in his administration, has died. She was 92. Glaser, the Washington...

Although Tribune Co. has the distinction of being the first major newspaper publisher to seek bankruptcy protection in this sour economy, it is hardly alone in facing the deadly combination of high debt and declining advertising revenue. For a sense of...

I have long been an avid consumer of that scrappiest, most off-center species of newspaper—the English-language expatriate rag. From the two predecessors of the International Herald-Tribune, to the Gringo Gazette, to the two papers I worked for in Central...

Home security is just as important for apartment dwellers as homeowners. Here are some apartment-safety tips from Intermatic, which makes security devices: Don't depend on a chain lock to secure your door. Install a good-quality dead bolt lock with at...

Miners made their mark in southwest Scratch the surface in southwest Wisconsin, and you'll find treasure. In the 1820s, it took the form of lead ore that early miners, to their amazement, could find "at the grassroots." Lead and zinc made this area...

Tribune Co., in a move that aims to boost its stock price but saddle the company with a punishing debt load, on Tuesday disclosed a plan to buy back a quarter of its outstanding shares at a cost of more than $2 billion. The Chicago media concern, which...

At the start of the new ``Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,’’ the house-elf Dobby warns our young sorcerer not to go back to Hogwarts School for a second year. The little guy must have been a marketing major. Prospects for Harry’s sophomore outing...

Remember when Professor Dumbledore discovers Harry Potter sitting bemused before the magical Mirror of Erised in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," the first of the wildly popular movies of the series? That scene was filmed here in the former...