Clinic Opens for Pregnant CPS Students

Chicago Public School students who are pregnant have a new resource to help them stay in school.

Some Chicagoans Wary of Cab-Sharing App

Say you need a taxi, but there isn't one available. Maybe someone who's already in one is willing to share. That's where Taxi Share Chicago comes into play.

Sam LaHood Could Face Jail in Egypt

Sam LaHood, son of the US Transportation Secretary and one of several Americans barred from leaving Egypt last weekend, said Friday he could be facing five years in jail.

Falling Debris Closes Loop City Block

Part of the Loop is closed down Friday night after debris fell from a building. The debris landed on Jackson between State and Wabash.

Berkeley energy lab plans big expansion

OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory said it will expand beyond its 200-acre Berkeley, California, campus with a 90-acre site in neighboring Richmond, California, hoping to ride gains in U.S. government energy research funding. A new 300,000 square foot building will consolidate into one site the satellite offices employing some 800 researchers, most of them focused on biology, who are currently scattered around the San Francisco Bay Area. ...

Washington state marijuana legalization headed for ballot

(Reuters) - Supporters of legalizing marijuana for recreational use have submitted enough signatures to put the matter to voters in Washington state in a bold move that, if successful, could put Olympia on a collision course with the federal government. The group New Approach Washington submitted nearly 278,000 valid signatures for the measure, more than required to put it on the November ballot, David Ammons, a spokesman for the Washington Secretary of State's office, said in a statement. ...

Mistrial declared in Katrina police shootings case

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A federal judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the case of a retired police detective accused of conspiring to cover up wrongdoing in fatal police shootings in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a lawyer for the officer said. Gerard Dugue was accused of obstructing justice, lying to the FBI and violating the civil rights of two people by writing false police reports about the September 2005 shooting. ...

Union membership slipped further as attacks came in 2011

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The percentage of workers represented by a union dipped slightly in 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday, as organized labor came under attack in states once considered union strongholds, including Wisconsin and Ohio. In 2011, 11.8 percent of U.S. workers were represented by a union, the BLS said, down from 11.9 percent in 2010 and compared to a peak of 28.3 percent of the workforce in 1954. Strip out government workers, where 37 percent of the work force nationally is unionized, and union penetration of private industry was just 6. ...

Accused California hair salon shooter to stand trial in October

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former tugboat worker will stand trial in October on charges of killing his ex-wife and seven others at a California hair salon in the largest mass slaying in Orange County history, a judge ruled on Friday. Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals scheduled the trial of Scott Evans Dekraai, 42, to begin on October 15, almost exactly a year after the October 12, 2011, shooting rampage. Prosecutors, however, expressed doubt that the trial would begin on time. ...

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DC to Occupy: No More Camping

One of the Occupy movement's longest-standing camps will soon no longer be a place to lay your head: Occupy DC protesters will be banned from camping in the two parks they have occupied since October as of noon on Monday. The National Park Service has alerted the demonstrators they must...

Yale Daily News Sat on QB Sex Assault Story

The Patrick Witt sex assault story gets messier: The Yale Daily News , which was just last year named the one of the gutsiest campus newspapers , knew for months that the Yale quarterback and onetime Rhodes candidate had been accused of sexual assault, but sat on the story. On Jim Romenesko's...

In Protest, 2K Tacos Delivered to Connecticut Mayor

When asked what he would do in response to a racial profiling scandal targeting Latinos in the town of East Haven, Connecticut, Mayor Joseph Maturo quipped that he might eat some tacos , and now he can: More than 2,000 tacos were delivered to the mayor's office yesterday. The taco...

Pennsylvania Middle School Bans Uggs

Administrators at a middle school in Pennsylvania were tired of kids hiding cell phones in their boots—so they banned the boots, the Mercury reports. The new rule applies to "outdoor, open top boots" in general, but the biggest culprits are Uggs, says a district official, particularly those that reach...