Millions of borrowers who are well beyond college age are still paying off federal loans. A high school class is teaching kids about personal finance in hopes of bringing down the debt.
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Recreational marijuana is now legal in Illinois. In Chicago and some suburbs, pot fans Wednesday lined up for hours at dispensaries. The state already allowed medical marijuana, and is now the 11th state to legalize recreational pot.
Vocalo's Jill Hopkins breaks down this year’s musical trends, and highlights a few tracks that deserve another listen.
Three preschool centers on the Southwest Side closed their doors to hundreds of children right before the Thanksgiving holiday. Their parents are now desperately trying to find a new center, but their options are limited.
Animal Welfare League gets interviewed By Straight Talk
On January 14th, Lorraine Swanson, a writer with the Oak Lawn Patch published an article containing a number of inaccuracies. Fanning Communications contacted Lorraine and asked for corrections. While we noticed that the article has been removed from the original Patch website, we also noted that the Patch article has remained on their Facebook page and on other sites where…
A plane from Ireland has landed at the international airport here because of an unspecified threat. FBI officials were meeting the plane. A spokeswoman for Philadelphia International Airport says officials don’t have any details about the threat or where the flight was originally going. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - [...]
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FBI meets plane in Philly after apparent threat
Yemen’s government said Wednesday that it thwarted an al-Qaeda plot to to take over strategic ports and attack oil pipelines in the latest threat to foreign interests by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. More suspected U.S. drone strikes struck terrorist targets Wednesday in the country’s south. The strikes killed seven suspected al-Qaeda terrorists, according to [...]
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Yemen says it foiled major al-Qaeda plot
Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in the first major blow against an organized crime leader by a Mexican administration struggling to drive down persistently high levels of violence, a U.S. federal official said Monday. Several Mexican media outlets reported that Trevino Morales [...]
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Leader of Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel captured
The shooting ambush of two undercover detectives outside the Wilshire Division station Tuesday morning “was a blatant attempt to assassinate two of the people who protect this community,” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said. Police stations across Los Angeles beefed up security after the detectives were fired upon. The officers are in “good spirits” and have [...]
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LAPD ambush a ‘blatant attempt to assassinate’ cops, Chief Beck says
FBI agents were investigating a report that about $1.2 million disappeared from a shipment of cash flown from Switzerland to New York City as part of a banking transaction, authorities said Tuesday. The U.S. currency — all $100 bills — was reported missing on Monday after a count of the money at the Federal Reserve [...]
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$1.2M missing from NYC-bound Swiss jet
A favored tactic due to its simplicity and low cost, these bombings creates maximum fear because the victims are randomly chosen, and in public areas such as schools, churches, hospitals, sporting events, bus or train stations, or other populated areas...
Anti-terror police in France have arrested six people accused of belonging to a radical Islamist cell and preparing attacks in the country. The suspects, aged 22 to 38, were arrested in the Paris region on Monday. “They were planning to commit terrorist acts targeting well-known figures in France,” an unnamed source told the news agency [...]
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French police arrest six ‘radical Islamists’ near Paris
Obama administration officials and congressional lawmakers over the past two weeks have condemned Edward Snowden for admittedly leaking classified information on national security surveillance programs. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, spoke of “changes we can already see being made by the folks who wish to do us harm, and our allies [...]
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The FBI says they found no threats aboard a Southwest Airlines flight that was diverted to Phoenix Monday after a telephone bomb threat. The plane was traveling from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas when authorities in Los Angeles requested authorities in ...
High winds and pilling snow drifts left thousands of travelers stranded on highways, subways and airports this Christmas. More…
These Days… When was the last time you heard any Illinois politician speak about bringing business into this state? Do you recall hearing anything in a recent “State of the State” address that forecasted the establishment of even a dozen of the thousands of jobs we so desperately need in Illinois? If you can’t recall the last time anyone spoke…
Warren Buffett said the US economy is a “shambles” and that, “We haven’t got the economy moving yet.” In an interview with CNBC Wednesday. More…