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1. WATCHDOGS: Metra cops ride overtime express with 45% increase since 2009
Each week he was on the job last year, Metra Police Department Sgt. John K. Geraty would work his regular 40 hours and then, on […]
- By: By CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporter cfusco@suntimes.com
- Published: May 20, 2013 12:15AM
2. United to restart 787 flights on Monday
United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of […]
- By: By JOSHUA FREED AP Airlines Writer
- Published: May 20, 2013 1:56AM
3. Jamie Dimon under pressure ahead of JPMorgan Chase investor vote
NEW YORK — Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country’s biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether […]
- By: By CHRISTINA REXRODE AP Business Writer
- Published: May 20, 2013 1:56AM
4. Museum exhibit in Waukegan recalls era of electric trains and North Shore Line
Fifty years after the North Shore Line passed into history, the memories of both its sights and sounds remain vivid for Joe Piersen, who grew […]
- By: By Dan Moran dmoran@stmedianetwork.com
- Published: May 19, 2013 7:34PM
5. Cynthia Brown, 60, guiding force of Human Rights Watch
NEW YORK — Activist Cynthia Brown, one of the guiding forces at the international advocacy group Human Rights Watch, has died at age 60 after […]
- By: BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
- Published: May 19, 2013 7:22PM
6. ECC grad shares life’s tests she’s passed for an education with her classmates
ELGIN — When Karen Gonzalez was maybe 12, she said, her grandma told her if you cut off a lizard’s tail, it grows back. Gonzalez always […]
- By: By Emily McFarlan Miller emcfarlan@stmedianetwork.com
- Published: May 19, 2013 7:12PM
7. As property values continue to fall, some see tax bills surge
AURORA — Inside Hope Lutheran Church recently, about 140 residents of the 55-and-over Carillon at Stonegate community packed into pews and folding chairs to get […]
- By: By Kalyn Belsha kbelsha@stmedianetwork.com
- Published: May 19, 2013 5:56PM
8. Tornadoes level homes Oklahoma; at least 1 dead
SHAWNEE, Okla. — Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing part of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man […]
- By: BY SEAN MURPHY Associated Press
- Published: May 19, 2013 5:40PM
9. Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town
BEIRUT — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar […]
- By: By KARIN LAUB Associated press
- Published: May 19, 2013 4:08PM
10. Video shows kidnapped Egyptian security officers
CAIRO — Seven men purported to be the members of Egypt’s security forces kidnapped by suspected militants last week appeared in a video posted online […]
- By: By TONY G. GABRIEL and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
- Published: May 19, 2013 4:02PM
