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Inspector vetoes open-door policyAug 25, 2017 6:00 am - Q. Last month we finally got our house into escrow. Everything was moving along smoothly until the buyers hired a home inspector. According to the inspector, the downsta...
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'Thrones' finale Sunday, wrap-up show WednesdayAug 25, 2017 6:00 am - HBO's shortened seventh season of "Game of Thrones" ends at 8 p.m. Sunday with "The Dragon and the Wolf," an 80-minute episode that promises to unite many of the show's ...
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What's it take to be in the home equity elite?Aug 25, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Americans readily gossip about home values - "Did you hear the crazy high price the house down the street sold for?" "Did you hear how little our neighbors ...
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Spat over fat led to workplace killing in Hampshire, police sayAug 25, 2017 5:30 am - What led an employee at a Hampshire meatpacking plant to, according to police, throw a knife into a co-worker's chest earlier this month, killing the man in one of the s...
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North: How about World Series rings for Wrigley vendors?Aug 25, 2017 5:00 am - The Chicago Cubs World Series ring giveaway has gotten out of hand, but as the saying goes — no good deed goes unpunished. The Cubs are handing out rings like popcorn, ...
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What it'll be like to play in world's biggest golf tournamentAug 25, 2017 1:01 am - MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - For 50 years now Myrtle Beach has been one of America's foremost golf meccas for one major reason. The owners of its nearly 90 courses know how to w...
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Let's erect monuments to the best among usAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - In the mid-'90s, after the Soviet Union collapsed, I went to an old park in Moscow where the Russians had deposited pieces of the monuments of the "great" communist lead...
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Trump signs on to the forever war in AfghanistanAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - There is surely no greater sign of the bankruptcy of American foreign policy than its Afghanistan policy. After 15 years of war and the deployment of hundreds of thousan...
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At Grayslake North, contact drills suit BakerAug 24, 2017 5:00 pm - Skilled at the art of stepping up, Sam Baker, coincidentally, lives in a basement. Granted, the residence is only temporary. Sometime soon, Baker plans to move his wife ...
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Lyle, Vernon Hills bravely embrace new challengesAug 24, 2017 4:00 pm - It's ironic that Max Lyle used to fear football. It's why he was a big soccer player all the way to the fourth grade. "I was kind of scared to play football so I played ...