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Thunderstorms arrive in Chicago area

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A flash flood watch has been issued for the Chicago area as a slow-moving weather mass brings in thunderstorms that could dump close to three inches of rain and even hail beginning this afternoon and extending overnight, according to meteorologists. An...

Tags: McHenry, Chicago Weather, Floods, Weather Reports, Weather

Court listings

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Love of music keeps Rohrersville Cornet Band playing on

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Richard Haynes joined the Rohrersville Cornet Band when he was 15 years old and the trumpet player said the only music training he received was vocal lessons. Haynes perfected his horn on his own in the band. At 86 years old, Haynes is still playing...

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'Only the Mountains Do Not Move' by Jan Reynolds

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"Only the Mountains Do Not Move" By Jan Reynolds Lee & Low Books, $18.95, ages 10-14 Author Jan Reynolds and her son stayed with the Il Ngwesi tribe of Maasai of Northern Kenya. The Maasai's traditional life has been based on herding cows and goats and...

'Jackhammer Sam' by Peter Mandel

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"Jackhammer Sam" By Peter Mandel, illustrated by David Catrow Roaring Brook, $16.99, ages 4-8 Jackhammer Sam, the title page pictures reveal, lives in New York City, but any sidewalk will do for a child's imagination. "ATTA-RATTA-TATTA-BAM./ D'ya know...

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John Stewart Morton Jr., real estate and insurance executive, dies

John Stewart Morton Jr., a retired real estate and insurance executive, died Aug. 3 of kidney failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. The former Owings Mills resident was 92. The son of a real estate broker and a homemaker, Mr....

Tags: Real Estate, Anglicanism, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War

Community connections

Leaders and friends of Chicago's Asian American Institute, fresh from a catered lunch and a Tribune Page One meeting, were sharing ideas with the newspaper's editor and learning something about the news organization's future. The conversation drifted...

Tags: News Agency, Chicago, Mass Media, Arts and Culture, National or Ethnic Minorities

Weather service warns of conditions for isolated tornadoes

The National Weather Service this morning issued a hazardous weather outlook for the Chicago area and other parts of Illinois that warns of strong to severe thunderstorms that could produce isolated tornadoes. The storms are coming in two waves. The...

Tags: Chicago, Kankakee, Weather, Indiana, Porter

Man from Springfield appears in McDonald's commerical

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Here's a blast from the past: a local school bus from the 1950s is making an appearance in a commercial across the pond.   Springfield resident Jim Lee admits he wasn't too excited at first about putting the bus on a trailer and...

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10th Anniversary of 9/11 Update on Forensic Evidence of What Rally Happened vs. The Standard Government Explanation

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Public Record for September 4

BOYLE DISTRICT COURT Cases handled recently in Boyle District Court, listed by name, charge, fine and jail sentence, where applicable, include the following. Court costs also were assessed in most cases. Ages and addresses are listed if available....

Tags: Justice System, Career and Workplace, Punishment, Bankruptcy, Walnuts

Is 'Man of Steel' super for business?

The fake 7-Eleven gas station will soon be cleared out to make way for an Oktoberfest celebration, and the Smallville's Best Pizza sign will eventually be taken off of Uncle Lar's Pizza restaurant, but the city of Plano, which last month hosted 14 days of...

Tags: Headaches, Chicago, Barbershop (movie), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (movie), Movies