Services for Hugh Hough, Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman for theChicago Sun-Times, will be at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Hallowell andJames Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th, Countryside.
Visitation will be from 5 to 10 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Mr. Hough, 62, died of cancer Wednesday at his La Grange Parkhome. He had been a reporter and re-writeman for the Sun-Times …
NEW YORK - One is a 15-year-old who was recently suspended from his suburban high school for making violent threats, according to police. The other is an awkward 17-year-old hungry for attention, acquaintances say.
Together, they envisioned a bloody assault on students and staffers at a Long Island high school, chillingly planning it for the ninth anniversary of the deadly Columbine High School rampage, Suffolk County police said.
"I will start a chain of terrorism in the world," the 15-year-old wrote in one of several alarming journal entries, according to police. "This will go down in history. Take out everyone there. Perfecto."
The two students were arrested …
A revealing photograph of former model and France's current first lady Carla Bruni was bought for $19,600 by an anonymous bidder Thursday at a Berlin auction house.
The image is one of 10 prints of a nude Bruni lounging in an unmade bed captured by American fashion photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994.
The Villa Grisebach auction house appraised "Carla Bruni in Bed" at $3,568-$4,997 and talked to prospective buyers from as far away as …
Sidney L. Boyar, 80, a former Sears executive and board member,died Monday in the Cleveland Clinic.
In 1974, Mr. Boyar retired from Sears, Roebuck and Co. as vicepresident of factory management. At that post, he oversaw thecompany's manufacturing plants.
Formerly of the North Side, he had lived in Beechwood, Ohio,for the last six years.
Mr. Boyar joined the Chicago-based retailer as a salesman in1934. Three years later, he was transferred to the mainheadquarters, where he held engineering and buying assignments.Before becoming vice president in 1965, he was national merchandisemanager of the home laundry equipment buying department.
In …
DETROIT (AP) — Bikini-clad Audrina Patridge was soaking up some sun by a pool in Los Angeles a few years ago when a reality TV producer spotted the aspiring model-actress. It was a chance meeting that ultimately led to a six-season run on the smash MTV series "The Hills."
These days, Patridge has traded her MTV gig in Hollywood for a web series in Detroit. Yet the 26-year-old beauty continues to attract attention — and maybe an occasional fan melee.
Last week at an airport in Mexico, she was overrun by fans, and earlier this week in Detroit, Patridge had an encounter with a group of prom-going teens at a bakery in the city's Greektown section.
"This one girl in …
A mangled and twisted metal tower that once broadcast radio and television signals to New York City from the top of the World Trade Center has a new home at the Newseum, Washington's monument to press freedom and other constitutional free speech protections.
The tower is just one striking artifact inside the high-tech journalism museum, which also includes large sections of the Berlin Wall, archival video and newspapers dating back nearly 500 years, and thousands of other objects to wow news junkies.
The Newseum opens Friday in a $450 million (euro286 million) ultramodern glass building on Pennsylvania Avenue _ prominently seated on the last available site …
Police were today still hunting a man who stole more thanpounds1,000 from a city baker during an armed robbery.
A 54-year-old van driver was threatened with a weapon as he madea delivery at JG Ross bakers in St Swithin Street, Aberdeen.
The robbery happened at around 5.15am …
