…to get to the city council meeting, of course! Did you happen to catch this story on the AP news wire a few weeks ago? While Durango, Colorado’s city council was discussing their recent 3-2 vote which made it easier to keep backyard chickens, a person in a chicken costume ran into the meeting, circled […]
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Family brawl erupts at children’s pizza place Deborah Donovan | Daily Herald Staff Contact writer CHICAGO: Arlington Heights police are investigating a “family ordeal that got out of hand” Sunday night at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant, 955 W. Dundee Road. According to Sgt. Tom Boggs, a family was apparently celebrating the birthday of a
Probably a year ago now, I received one of those email forwards about getting to know your friends. You know the type – you read your friends’ answers to some strange and random questions and then you answer them, getting to know more about your friends and yourself. One of the questions was something about
Like in a newspaper’s picture caption. Many locals make fun of our county’s newspaper; pointing out miscellaneous typos, erroneous information and errors, but today’s typo in the following picture caption is kind of a big oopsie: The line for the H1N1 virus snakes through the parking lot at the County Fairgrounds Wednesday afternoon. Obviously our
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Often I write about laws and regulations that are intended to help parents decide what is right for their child because sometimes these laws overstep boundaries. There was a story a while ago about a woman who was arrested for leaving her sleeping toddler in the car while she walked with her other daughter to
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I’ve blogged about the Duggar family before – they are famous for having a TLC reality show about their large family of 20. That’s two parents and eighteen natural offspring – no adoptees, no foster kids; just two people who don’t believe in birth control and who have the utmost faith in God and their
A Whim? It Was The 19th Pregnancy Test! Read More »
Because I have two kids in the local city school system at the same time, I receive double the school memos. So while Friday’s after-school-folder-clean-out yielded the usual classwork, homework and doodles, there were also some notices clearly indicative of these times in which we’re living: a list of swine flu H1N1 symptoms and (what
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Did you hear about this? Seems a man settling back for a quiet afternoon in his tiki bar (that’s a whole ‘nother story, I guess. Us Midwestern folks can’t really identify…) when he opened his can of Diet Pepsi, took a big gulp and began to gag. His wife came over, and to make a
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See if you enjoy this as much as I did – a group of female gorillas is given posters of their prospective mate. How did they react to it? Read: From cnn.com: by Nick Hunt So when three female gorillas at London Zoo heard that they would soon be visited by a brooding French hunk
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There’s really not much to say about the following article – someone did something extremely stupid, and I thought I’d share. At least no one was seriously hurt… CAR SET ABLAZE AFTER JOLIET WOMAN USED LIGHTER TO CHECK GAS CAN LEVEL By Lee Filas | Daily Herald Staff A 27-year-old Joliet woman is suffering from
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