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    Justice to investigate IRS targeting of tea party

    Attorney General Eric Holder pauses during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington Tuesday. Holder said he’s ordered a Justice Department investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny.

    May 14, 2013 2:29 PM

    The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party groups for extra scrutiny over whether they qualified for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday.

    Life & Entertainment

    How and why of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy

    Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure.

    May 14, 2013 9:24 AM

    Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced on Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. Here's a crash course in the procedure Jolie had and why.

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    With temperature swings, only strong flowers survive

    Shortly after Monday morning's frost melts away, Fae Littrell of Inverness picks out geraniums at Goebbert's Farm & Garden Center in South Barrington to plant now that temperatures are expected to shoot into the 80s.

    May 14, 2013 12:09 PM

    Shutting off the heat and switching on the air-conditioning? Plants at Morton Arboretum in Lisle tried to fight off a freeze early Monday morning but will bask in 80-degree temperatures today. "All those hanging baskets people get for Mother's Day, if they were under an eave, they are probably OK. But if they got frosted, you're going to see it," says Kris Bachtell of the Morton Arboretum.

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    Images: Daily Herald prep photos of the week

    Mundelein's Allie Boothe holds the girls water polo sectional plaque and gets hugs from her sister Amanda, far left, and friend Megan Casali Saturday. Mundelein defeated Stevenson in the match.

    May 14, 2013 10:10 AM

    The Prep Photos of the Week gallery includes the best high school sports pictures by Daily Herald photographers. This week's gallery features photos from water polo, track, baseball, softball, gymnastics, volleyball and soccer.

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    Women have new options for breast cancer surgery

    Rose Ragona, a 51-year-old operations supervisor at O’Hare, was diagnosed with breast cancer and recently had a mastectomy where surgeons saved much of her skin and started reconstruction during the same surgery. “To wake up and just see your breasts there helped me immensely,” she said.

    May 14, 2013 10:03 AM

    Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more options, faster treatment, smaller scars, fewer long-term side effects and better cosmetic results.

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    Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

    A wind turbine farm owned by PacifiCorp stands near Glenrock, Wyo., Monday, May 6, 2013. Wind farms owned by the company, with clusters of turbines as tall as 30-story buildings and spinning rotors the size of jetliners, have killed at least 20 eagles in the state, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.

    May 14, 2013 5:00 PM

    Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines here and elsewhere that are killing eagles and other protected birds have yet to be fined or prosecuted - even though every death is a criminal violation.

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