All Stories from September 7, 2013 (Change date)
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Sophie Hannah to pen new ‘Agatha Christie’ novelSep 07, 2013 6:49 am - LONDON — Here’s one mystery solved: Sophie Hannah is the crime writer given the formidable and most likely lucrative task of reviving Agatha Christie’s famed detective, ...
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App Reviews: Foresee, 1WeatherSep 07, 2013 6:48 am - Foresee Some errands require the weather to be just right, and no one likes to cancel plans because of rain, only to see sunshine an hour later. This app takes some...
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Review: ‘Mega’ phone is huge, with limited appealSep 07, 2013 6:46 am - LOS ANGELES — Please turn off all electronic devices, the flight crew instructs as we approach Los Angeles. With a small phone, I might have gotten away with ignoring sa...
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Cardinal celebrates 50th anniversary of St. Thomas of Villanova schoolSep 07, 2013 6:30 am - Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago, joined students, families and parishioners of St. Thomas of Villanova in Palatine to celebrate the parish school’s 50th a...
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Bloomingdale enjoys its 40th SeptemberfestSep 07, 2013 6:20 am - Retired Bloomingdale firefighter Bill Wolff calls it “a labor of love.” Everyone else calls it Bloomingdale’s Septemberfest, celebrating its 40th anniversary this weeken...
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Microsoft-Nokia: A good deal that came too lateSep 07, 2013 6:14 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Windows is dead. Let’s all salute it — pour out a glass for it, burn a CD for it, reboot your PC one last time. Windows had a good run. For a time, i...
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Festival of the Vine bears fruit in GenevaSep 07, 2013 6:01 am - Julie O’Malley of St. Charles loved the gourds. So she brought several of them from one of the many vendors at Saturday’s Festival of the Vine in beautiful downtown Gene...
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Plant sale next Saturday should get lots of visitorsSep 07, 2013 6:00 am - Marce Van Glabek's idea for the Pottawatomie Garden Club to hold a plant sale fundraiser this month sounded good on paper. But rather than “mum,” it had “dud” written al...
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Chris Hart finds J-pop home in JapanSep 07, 2013 6:00 am - TOKYO — Leaving San Francisco, singer Chris Hart has made himself at home in “J-pop.” His album of cover versions of Japanese pop tunes is rising on the charts. And the...
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Spanish-language ‘Instructions’ winning at box officeSep 07, 2013 6:00 am - MEXICO CITY — English speakers need subtitles to understand the movie and probably Google to know where they’ve seen the star, if at all. But a movie featuring a Mexican...