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Rozner: Great coaching helped Penguins survive attritionJun 17, 2017 1:00 am - Some baseball teams call up a player and immediately place him in the lineup. After all, the guy's been a star at every level - and played every day - since Little Leagu...
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Zero-down payment mortgages are backJun 16, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - They were all the rage - then the scourge - of the housing boom and bust. Now they're back, big time: Home mortgages that require tiny or zero-down payments...
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Heater blows hot and coldJun 16, 2017 6:00 am - Q. Our forced-air furnace is behaving strangely. Instead of heating the house in a normal manner, the gas burners turn on and off repeatedly, while the air continues to ...
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Buyers, homeowners with student debt get a big breakJun 16, 2017 6:00 am - The nation's largest provider of mortgage money has eased its borrowing rules, allowing banks to create more home loans for first-time buyers and current owners who are ...
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Buffalo Grove woman's killer can seek freedom in just 6 monthsJun 16, 2017 5:30 am - We'll never make sense of the random shooting on a Wisconsin interstate last year that claimed the life of Buffalo Grove mom Tracy Czaczkowski on her way home from a fam...
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North: Will the 2016 Cubs follow the path of 1985 Bears?Jun 16, 2017 5:00 am - With the Chicago Cubs consistently hovering around .500 as we head toward the All-Star Game break, I have a comparison and a question. Is there a good chance that the 20...
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Off-course troubles continue for USGA at OpenJun 16, 2017 1:01 am - ERIN, Wis. - Away from the play on the course it's been one thing after another for the U.S. Golf Association to deal with at the 117th U.S. Open. On Thursday it was a b...
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Crowded leaderboard after two rounds of U.S. OpenJun 16, 2017 1:01 am - ERIN, Wis. - Phil Mickelson doesn't show up and defending champion Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day - the top three players in the Official World Golf Rankings...
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Leftward shift would be recipe for disasterJun 16, 2017 1:00 am - Bernie Sanders was speaking recently to a gathering of like-minded liberals in Chicago. "I am often asked by the media and others, 'How did it come about that Donald Tru...
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A gunman shoots and we in politics become a familyJun 16, 2017 1:00 am - As the wife of a U.S. senator, I work hard to keep separate my marriage and my career as a newspaper columnist. Normally, I mention my husband, Sherrod Brown, only when ...