All Stories from August 23, 2012 (Change date)
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Facebook updates iPhone app to speed it up iPhonesAug 23, 2012 1:40 pm - MENLO PARK, Calif. — What’s the biggest complaint about Facebook’s iPhone app? Users say it’s slow. Facebook Inc. says it’s addressing those gripes, with the launch of a...
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McIlvaine refuses city inspection so he’s jailed for contemptAug 23, 2012 12:58 pm - Nearly two years ago, the city of St. Charles sued Clifford McIlvaine after he refused to allow inspectors to check out a home addition he started in 1975 in the 600 blo...
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Toastmasters tries to ease the strain of public speakingAug 23, 2012 12:51 pm - Can you imagine being a public speaker? Do your knees shake at the thought? Tori Libby of West Chicago has been a speaker for Amplify Youth Development for almost 10 ye...
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Tribune creditors win chance to halt bankruptcy exit planAug 23, 2012 12:50 pm - Tribune Co. creditors can halt the television and newspaper company’s exit from bankruptcy temporarily if they agree to post a $1.5 billion bond, a judge ruled. U.S. Ban...
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Chicago Sky scouting reportAug 23, 2012 12:37 pm - Sky scouting report Chicago Sky (8-13) at Tulsa Shock (3-18), 7 p.m. Friday at the BOK Center Web: LiveAccess on WNBA.com Last time: On Wednesday, the Sky lost at Atlant...
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Change is the constant as fewer Lake County coaches returnAug 23, 2012 12:23 pm - It seems like only yesterday that Dave Mohapp and I were “the newbies.” Mohapp was in his first year as head football coach at Warren in 1997 when I got hired to cover h...
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Like a Storm playing at Wheeling AMVETS Corn FestAug 23, 2012 12:18 pm - International recording artists Like A Storm will be playing songs from their new album “Chaos Theory” 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the AMVETS Corn Fest in Wheeling. Cur...
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Great defense not enough to save BoomersAug 23, 2012 12:03 pm - The first two men reached in the ninth inning for the Schaumburg Boomers before the Frontier League’s save leader Eric Massingham stranded both to claim a 4-2 victory fo...
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Bandits open championship series with 4 top awardsAug 23, 2012 12:02 pm - With NPF Pitcher of the Year Monica Abbott on the mound, the Chicago Bandits cruised to a convincing 11-1 victory over the Carolina Diamonds Thursday at The Ballpark of ...
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High School District 211 gives out iPads to 1,500 studentsAug 23, 2012 12:00 pm - In the world of today's teenagers, technological devices and the endless possibilities of the Internet accompany kids everywhere they go. To not exclude school life from...