A Chicago woman has been accused of abducting and abandoning a baby girl in a fake pregnancy scheme designed to help her boyfriend...
Exclusive: Facebook offering e-retailers sales tracking tool
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc wants more credit for making online cash registers ring. Facebook will begin rolling out on Friday a new tool which will allow online retailers to track purchases by members of the social network who have viewed their ads. The tool is the latest of the new advertising features Facebook is offering to convince marketers that steering...
No. 23 Michigan tops Iowa 42-17 with Gardner's TDs
Label: SportsANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Devin Gardner accounted for six touchdowns to help No. 23 Michigan rout Iowa 42-17 Saturday.The Wolverines (8-3, 6-1 Big Ten) weren't stopped on offense by the hapless Hawkeyes (4-7, 2-5) until Gardner threw an interception early in the fourth quarter.Gardner threw three touchdowns and ran for three scores. He became the first Michigan quarterback to account for six TDs since...
EU drug regulator OKs Novartis' meningitis B shot
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Europe's top drug regulator has recommended approval for the first vaccine against meningitis B, made by Novartis AG.There are five types of bacterial meningitis. While vaccines exist to protect against the other four, none has previously been licensed for type B meningitis. In Europe, type B is the most common, causing 3,000 to 5,000 cases every year.Meningitis mainly affects infants...
Lady Gaga tweets some racy images before concert
Label: EntertainmentBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Lady Gaga's tweets were getting a lot of attention ahead of her Buenos Aires concert Friday night.The Grammy-winning entertainer has more than 30 million followers on Twitter and that's where she shared a link this week to a short video showing her doing a striptease and fooling around in a bathtub with two other women.She told her followers that it's a "surprise for...
Chocolatier finds sweet spot in Belize
Label: Business Katrina Markoff, the founder of high-end Chicago chocolatier Vosges Haut-Chocolat, is nearing completion on two high-profile projects: a winery-style chocolate facility in Logan Square and an education center at a cacao plantation and eco-lodge in Belize.Markoff isn't ready to talk about the Logan Square project, her spokeswoman said. But in an interview...
Nov
16
Hostess to shut down, taking Twinkies with it
Label: WorldHostess, the company that makes Twinkies and other sugary snacks, has announced it's going out of business following a worker strike. ...
Exclusive: Facebook offering e-retailers sales tracking tool
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc wants more credit for making online cash registers ring. Facebook will begin rolling out on Friday a new tool which will allow online retailers to track purchases by members of the social network who have viewed their ads. The tool is the latest of the new advertising features Facebook is offering to convince marketers that steering...
AP source: Melky Cabrera, Blue Jays reach deal
Label: SportsNEW YORK (AP) — The busy Toronto Blue Jays struck again Friday with their latest big deal: All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera is set to join them in his return from a drug suspension.A person familiar with the negotiations said the free agent outfielder and the Blue Jays have reached agreement on a two-year contract worth $16 million. The deal is pending a physical, the person told The Associated Press...
Robert Pattinson looks for danger after “Twilight”
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Robert Pattinson has set young hearts aflutter as the teen vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight Saga” films, but as the sun sets on the franchise that launched his career, the actor is looking for more grown-up and “dangerous” roles.“Breaking Dawn – Part 2,” released this week, is the fifth and final in the series, and Edward’s...
Judge grants Miley Cyrus civil restraining order
Label: EntertainmentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has granted Miley Cyrus a three-year civil restraining order against a man convicted of trespassing at her home in Los Angeles.The stay-away order was granted Friday against Jason Luis Rivera by Superior Court Judge William D. Stewart.The 40-year-old Rivera was convicted in October of trespassing at the singer's home and sentenced to 18 months in jail.He is scheduled to...
Sources: Liguori planned as next Tribune CEO
Label: Business When Tribune Co. emerges from bankruptcy, the new owners plan to name television executive Peter Liguori as the company's chief...
Nov
15
Cutler held out of Bears' practice
Label: World The Chicago Bears practiced Thursday for the first time since Jay Cutler was knocked out of Sunday’s loss to the Texans, but...
Facebook takes another shot at settling privacy lawsuit
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said he would consider whether to preliminarily approve Facebook's second attempt to settle allegations the social networking company violated privacy rights. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg rejected a proposed class action settlement over Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' advertising feature. But at a hearing on Thursday in San...
Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey win MVP awards
Label: SportsNEW YORK (AP) — Detroit's Miguel Cabrera has won the American League's Most Valuable Player award after becoming baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years, and San Francisco's Buster Posey has been voted the National League honor.Cabrera received 22 of 28 first-place votes and 362 points from the AL panel of Baseball Writers' Association of America. Los Angeles Angels rookie center fielder...
Diabetes rates rocket in Oklahoma, South
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — The nation's diabetes problem is getting worse, and the biggest jump over 15 years was in Oklahoma, according to a new federal report issued Thursday.The diabetes rate in Oklahoma more than tripled, and Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama also saw dramatic increases since 1995, the study showed.The South's growing weight problem is the main explanation, said Linda Geiss, lead author of the...
DA: Heroin charge dropped vs. Bon Jovi's daughter
Label: EntertainmentCLINTON, N.Y. (AP) — Drug charges against Jon Bon Jovi's 19-year-old daughter have been dropped, a central New York prosecutor said Thursday.Stephanie Bongiovi was found unresponsive by medics after she apparently overdosed on heroin in a Hamilton College dorm early Wednesday. Town of Kirkland police charged Bongiovi, of Red Bank, N.J., and fellow student Ian Grant, also of Red Bank, with possession...
Eurozone slides back into recession
Label: Business The Eurozone is back in a recession, its first in three years, as gross domestic product for the debt-plagued 17-nation bloc...
Nov
14
Soldier Field to get new sod after rainy Bears' loss
Label: WorldTribune video by Fred Mitchell. Soldier Field will get new sod after two inches of rain fell during the Chicago Bears' 13-6 loss...
Adobe says user forum was breached, takes site offline
Label: TechnologyBOSTON (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc shut down a website where customers share information about using its Connect online conferencing service after the software maker discovered it had been compromised in a data breach. The company, whose software is frequently targeted by computer hackers because it is widely used to publish digital documents, said on Wednesday that it would reset passwords...
Price edges Verlander for AL Cy Young Award
Label: SportsNEW YORK (AP) — David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays won the AL Cy Young Award on Wednesday in one of the closest votes ever.Price beat out 2011 winner Justin Verlander by only four points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Other than a 1969 tie between Mike Cuellar and Denny McLain, it was the tightest race in the history of the AL award.Runner-up two years ago, Price was...
New gene triples risk for Alzheimer's disease
Label: HealthScientists have identified a new gene variant that seems to strongly raise the risk for Alzheimer's disease, giving a fresh target for research into treatments for the mind-robbing disorder.The problem gene is not common — less than 1 percent of people are thought to have it — but it roughly triples the chances of developing Alzheimer's compared to people with the normal version of the gene. It also...
NBC names new top producer for 'Today'
Label: EntertainmentNEW YORK (AP) — NBC News is staying in-house in its effort to turn around the "Today" show.The network on Wednesday appointed a 23-year veteran of the morning news show as its new executive producer. Don Nash began working for "Today" as a production assistant in NBC's Burbank office in 1989 and will now run the four-hour broadcast.Nash was most recently senior broadcast producer in the show's control...
Corzine blamed for fall of MF Global
Label: Business Poor management decisions by MF Global's former CEO Jon Corzine triggered the brokerage firm's collapse, while lax protections...
Nov
13
Jury finds in favor of bartender in cop bar beating case
Label: WorldFormer Chicago police Officer Anthony Abbate beats up female bartender Karolina Obrycka at Jesse's Shortstop Inn in Chicago in Feb. 2007. ...
Exclusive: AMD hires bank to explore options - sources
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