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Greg Gumbel, sports broadcasting legend with Chicago ties, dies at 78
Longtime CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel has died from cancer. He was 78. His family announced his death in a statement released by CBS on Friday. In March, Gumbel missed his first NCAA Tournament since 1997 due to what he said at the time were family health issues. Gumbel was the studio host for CBS since returning to the network from...
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Chicago roads, airports to see heavy holiday traffic; millions of travelers expected
Chicago Drivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S.
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Taking advantage of an obscure rule, Chargers' kicker makes NFL's first fair-catch kick in 48 years
Of all the rules in football, Jim Harbaugh considers the obscure fair-catch kick to be his favorite.
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The US government could shut down at midnight. How you could be impacted, what that means
If a deal isn’t struck by midnight Friday, workers could be furloughed, air travel could be interrupted, Medicare could be impacted and more.
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Indiana man gets maximum sentence after conviction in Delphi killings of 2 teens
An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike will face the maximum sentence of 130 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday in the case that’s long cast a shadow over the teens’ small hometown of Delphi.
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Illinois Amazon strike: Could your package be delayed? What to know as warehouse workers across the US strike
Thousands of Amazon workers are set to strike in the middle of holiday shipping season, including at one facility in the Chicago suburbs. Could it impact your holiday delivery?
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3 killed, 6 injured in school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin: Police
At least three people were killed and several others were injured just after 11 a.m. Monday in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin, police said.
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Investigation underway after bodies of 3 women found in Ohio home
Authorities in Ohio launched a homicide investigation after the bodies of three women were found Saturday inside a home in Columbus.
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Former deputy accused of killing Springfield woman Sonya Massey denied pretrial release
A former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy accused of killing Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, in her Springfield home in July was denied pretrial release by the Illinois Supreme Court Friday.
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Wisconsin kayaker who faked death, fled to Eastern Europe in custody, online records show
A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children to go to Eastern Europe is in police custody, online records show.
