Reader PJ sued a bunch of harassing debt collectors and won $5,000, and Google Voice made doing it really easy. Someone had put down his work cellphone number on their credit applications and ran up a bunch of debts and collectors started calling him multiple times per day. He told them he wasn't the guy and asked them nicely to stop, but that...
Twenty-two students and nine staff members at a Blue Island grammar school were taken to area hospitals today after bleach was accidentally mixed with another chemical in a janitor’s closet, causing caustic fumes to spread in the building.
The students at the Paul Revere Intermediate School for 4th and 5th graders were taken to hospitals as...
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and,...
Watergate legend Bob Woodward at Poynter: "I'm not sure we in the news business are up to covering (the big) problems."
The stats on Bob Woodward are impressive enough.
About a year after starting his first job in journalism, Woodward stumbled on a story that would create and cement the legend of the superstar investigative reporter,...
If you thought Barbie, with her disproportionately big breasts and tiny waist, sent a bad message to young girls, wait until you meet of Mattel’s new Monster High doll.
Clawdeen Wolf comes complete with a thigh-skimming skirt, sky high boots and heavy makeup, and spends her days “waxing, plucking and shaving.”
“My hair is worthy of a shampoo...
