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Marijuana legalization bill may threaten fabulous Prohibition II profits
With Valentine's Day still fresh in our minds, thoughts naturally turn to retired Army Gen. John T. Thompson of Newport, Ky., who helped give America one of its most vivid memories of that holiday. After serving in two wars, Thompson saw a need for a...Tags: Holidays, Crime, Law and Justice, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Valentine's Day, Organized Crime
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'Variety' coffee-table book displays the evolution of an iconic magazine
As it says here, on page 64 of the glossily fascinating coffee-table book "Variety: An Illustrated History of the World From the Most Important Magazine in Hollywood," Al Capone, interviewed in his Chicago home, told Variety he was approached often to...
Tags: Elvis Presley, Entertainment, Periodicals, World War II (1939-1945), Russia
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No word on Mexican drug lord Guzman after gun battle in Guatemala
MEXICO CITY -- Guatemalan authorities said Friday they had not yet recovered the bodies from a gun battle between Mexican drug traffickers in a remote part of the country where one of the world’s most-wanted fugitive kingpins is known to operate....
Tags: Guatemala, Mexico, Armed Conflicts, Mexico City, Drug Trafficking
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10 things you might not know about razed Chicago
Chicago Tribune reportersEver since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, L (movie), St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929), Gold Coast, Art Institute of Chicago
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Mike Piazza to perform with Miami City Ballet
Mike Piazza, who looked so good in pinstripes during his half-hour as a member of the then-Florida Marlins, will put on similarly fashionable stripes when he takes the stage May 3 in Miami City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, Entertainment, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Narco gun battle reported in 'Chapo' Guzman's Guatemala territory
MEXICO CITY -- Intense gun battles were reported late Thursday in a remote jungle region of northern Guatemala where Mexico's top drug lord, Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, is known to operate. The firefights involved a convoy carrying suspected...Tags: Guatemala, Mexico, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Ald. Lingonberry could get famous driving the Cubs from Wrigleyville
If there's one surefire way for a lowly Chicago alderman to surpass the worldwide fame of Michael Jordan and Al Capone, it's this: All the alderman has to do is help drive the Chicago Cubs out of town into the waiting, trembling arms of suburban...
Tags: Tribune Company, Lifestyle and Leisure, Sports, Chicago White Sox, Thomas M. Tunney
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Finalists face one another at Washington County Free Library's Battle of the Books
alnotarianni@aol.comThere were eight teams of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders, each armed with a large pad of paper, a marker and everything they could remember about 20 books they had read. Finalists who had been reading and practicing since November faced one another in...Tags: Students, Libraries, Arts and Culture, Museums, Museum Dioramas
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Cermak's death offers lesson in Chicago Way
The assassinated Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who died 80 years ago this week, is often portrayed by official histories as just an innocent victim of bad luck and bad aim. But Chicagoans don't believe in coincidences, not even us chumbolones,...
Tags: Chicago City Council, Edward M. Burke, Kelsey Grammer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Injuries and Wounds
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Deirdre Capone softens a notorious icon
What's in a name? If you're a Chicagoan and your surname is Capone, everything. There is perhaps no more notorious name associated with the city (except perhaps Gacy, or for a time, Bartman). Growing up, Deirdre Marie Capone lived what she calls a "shame-...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Entertainment, Insurance, Robert De Niro, Physiology
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Cardinal Mahony's removal not enough, church critics say
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez's decision to relieve Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of all public duties over his mishandling of clergy sex abuse of children decades ago does not go far enough, some abuse victim advocates said Friday. David Clohessy,...... -
Connecticut Small-Batch Distilleries Are Making Award-Winning Vodkas, Brandies and Whiskeys
Margaret and Louis Chatey are turning pears and apples from Ledyard and Middlefield into award-winning brandy in a barn off an Ashford country lane. Over in East Hartford, Adam von Gootkin is hunting for Connecticut corn he can transform into what he...
Tags: East Hartford, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Middletown, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Mar 16, 2013
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