As domestic abuse claims roil White House, Trump says lives are being ruined...
President Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to side with men accused of domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, following a week of turmoil surrounding allegations of spousal abuse against two male aides...
View ArticleAmerican teenager Red Gerard wins slopestyle snowboarding for USA's 1st gold
Red Gerard and his brothers built their own snowboarding features park in the backyard of their Colorado home as kids, one that provided them a gateway into a sport that is an equal mix of technical...
View ArticleEffort there for Bulls, execution not in 101-90 loss to Wizards
After their late-night victory over the Timberwolves on Friday, the Bulls were instructed to think young. Not AAU young, but college young. “I told our guys,” coach Fred Hoiberg said, “to treat this...
View Article'Time's up': Women ski jumpers still battle for equality
They were the Cinderella story of the Sochi Olympics, the women ski jumpers who were finally allowed to compete in the Games after a years-long struggle for equality. They had survived a court battle,...
View ArticleBlackhawks at a loss after falling to Wild for fifth straight defeat
Joel Quenneville’s motivational speech Saturday morning consisted of three expletives in a 14-word statement. “Let’s (expletive) get excited. Let’s (expletive) feel good about ourselves after one...
View Article2018 Winter Olympics: TV schedule and highlights
More than 90 countries will send roughly 2,900 athletes to compete in the Pyeongchang Olympics. There are 102 events — most in Olympic history — including four making their debuts: big air...
View ArticleCubs agree to terms with pitcher Yu Darvish on six-year, $126 million deal
The long wait was well worth the pursuit for the Cubs, who agreed to terms Saturday with marquee free-agent pitcher Yu Darvish. A cold, uncertain winter thawed four days before the team’s first...
View ArticleHutton: Valparaiso H.S. football coach goes AWOL on his team to end strange saga
I was collecting anecdotes and making calls for a column on then new, and now former, Valparaiso coach Steven Mueller. But I stopped. What had he done to deserve anything more than an introduction,...
View ArticleWaukegan approves new video gambling regulations
New rules aimed at stopping the proliferation of video gambling cafes were approved by the Waukegan City Council last week. The council had put in place a moratorium on video gambling licenses, set to...
View Article'It's a giant expense': Oak Park trustees seek options for proposed $20...
A nearly $20 million improvement plan proposed for Lake Street has some Oak Park trustees asking for options to reduce its potential costs. The plan, which runs the entirety of Lake Street between...
View ArticlePalos Heights' Kendall Coyne scores go-ahead goal to lift U.S. over Finland...
Goaltender Noora Raty saw Hilary Knight with the puck on her stick and moved to defend against the dangerous American. Knight passed the puck, Kendall Coyne scored the go-ahead goal at 11:29 of the...
View ArticleOak Park's Emery Lehman finishes 21st in men's 5,000-meter speedskating; Sven...
As always, when his rivals suddenly felt that pain in their legs, that burning in their lungs, Sven Kramer kept his mighty, unmatched stride going. "I never saw that wall," he said. Kramer won the...
View ArticleThree youths escape Aurora house fire
Three youths escaped safely from a house fire that displaced five people Saturday morning on the east side of Aurora, fire officials said. Firefighters responded at 9:43 a.m. Saturday to the 3100...
View ArticleThe Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a...
The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry. The White House plans to stop...
View ArticleSenate to debate immigration, but Trump is the question mark
The Senate will open up a rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the fate of the "Dreamer" immigrants on Monday. But the most influential voice in the conversation may be on the other side of...
View ArticleThe Cubs, acting like World Series favorites ought to act
The good thing about the Cubs signing free-agent ace Yu Darvish is they don’t have to face him in the playoffs. Good thing, indeed, after Darvish fired 6 1/3 innings of one-run, six-hit,...
View ArticleMulvaney says Trump budget will include money for Mexico border wall
President Donald Trump's budget director says the budget that the administration sends to Congress on Monday will seek to move some of the billions of dollars in extra spending that Congress approved...
View ArticleAirliner crashes near Moscow after takeoff; 71 presumed dead
A Russian passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed Sunday near Moscow, killing everyone aboard shortly after the jet took off from one of the city's airports. The Saratov Airlines regional jet...
View ArticleChicago records 9 straight days of snowfall, matching record
Feel like it's been snowing for a week straight? It has. It has actually been nine days with “measurable amounts” of snow, which, the National Weather Service explains, means 0.1 inches or more. That...
View ArticleCar fire at John Hancock Center extinguished without injuries
About 150 firefighters swarmed the John Hancock Center along the Magnificent Mile Sunday morning after smoke from a car fire wafted dozens of floors up and prompted emergency calls from residents and...
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