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Mondelez bakeries, which makes Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, and Cadbury chocolates, has announced yet another round of layoffs at its Chicago bakery. The company is enlarging its Mexico facilities as it closes nine bakery lines in the Windy City, some of which

As the East Coast was buried in snow, flooding, and freezing temperatures, Chicago was blessed with dry streets. But while the Windy City missed out on the snow, and despite that it was certainly cold, Chicago was buried in the all-too-familiar gang violence that visits the city daily.

The Department of State is asking to delay January’s scheduled release of the next batch of emails sent from a private email server by Hillary Clinton and her staff while she was Obama’s Secretary of State, but the claimed reason for the delay has Republicans crying foul while leaving others scoffing.

As the East Coast endures its first massive winter storm of the year, the NBA has canceled two Saturday games as the storm gears up to snarl the New York/Washington corridor in a storm that could dump more than two feet of snow.

A Wisconsin manufacturing plant made a policy announcement affecting prayer time for its 53 Muslims employees, prompting the Muslim employees to claim “discrimination.”

The designated hitter (DH) rule looks closer than ever to crossing over from baseball’s American League to the National League, reports say.

After Salt Lake County Unified Police Officer Douglas Barney was shot and killed by a man with a long criminal record, some Utahans are saying the officer lost his life due to a regrettable practice of releasing prisoners too early.

A massive Winter storm featuring bitterly cold temperatures and blizzard conditions has sparked a full shut down of government offices in Washington D.C.

A new report on the value of the teams in the NBA finds that nearly half of them are worth a billion dollars each.

Police in Arizona made a shocking discovery in a closet in the apartment of a Hispanic couple when a three-year-old girl was found malnourished, bound in duct tape, and stuffed into a cloth bag.

An Illegal migrant convicted in Wisconsin of sexually molesting the body of a dead girl is seeking to have his conviction on sexual violence charges overturned, by claiming that a dead body can’t be sexually assaulted because it cannot be forced or coerced into a sex act.

Major League Baseball confirms an investigation into Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish related to gambling charges against his brother.

An elderly Georgia woman froze to death only yards away from where her wheelchair-bound husband had fallen out of his chair, authorities said. The two were both incapacitated and unable to help each other.

A group whose goal is to promote Confederate history arranged for an airplane banner of the Confederate flag to fly over Florida’s state capital to protest a bill that would ban display of the flag on state property.

The man who owns the company contracted to remove the Confederate statues that have stood in New Orleans for decades discovered his $200,000 Lamborghini sports car torched and destroyed, reports say.

Charges have been made that a “culture of cover-up,” leading to the quashing of several dashcam videos proving police misconduct, has sparked months of street protests in Chicago and even led to the firing of an investigator of the city’s Independent Police Review Authority.

Nearly two dozen Chicago police officers have been called before a federal grand jury, which is investigating the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, shot by a fellow officer 16 times in 2014.

The new Wonder Woman movie, with actress Gal Gadot wearing the hero’s bullet-proof wristbands, has comic fans and super hero movie buffs excited, to say the least.

Officials have accepted the plea of a 43-year-old illegal immigrant on charges that he sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl in 2014.

Two Muslim men, one a legal immigrant from Sudan and one born in Pennsylvania, have been arrested in Virginia and accused of attempting to become involved with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group.

Advocates for illegal immigrants in New Jersey are complaining that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency “scared kids” with unannounced raids on the homes of undocumented immigrants in New Brunswick and Freehold.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division announced that fifteen illegals convicted of crimes were rounded up and arrested in the Milwaukee area over the first two weeks of January.

Police in Virginia are charging two men for the alleged rape of a woman in a hotel room. She was targeted, they say, because she is a foreign-speaking woman who works in the “escort” business and therefore was not expected to report the attack.

Police have announced that they have solved two murders in Virginia linked to the violent gang MS-13, which is primarily made up of Central American illegal immigrants.

Chicago’s interim police superintendent John Escalante is struggling to explain the wild jump in shootings in the Windy City, and he thinks he has at least part of the explanation: it’s social media’s fault.

General Electric will sell off its venerable American home-appliance manufacturing division to China’s Qingdao Haier Co. Ltd., for a reported $5.4 billion.

According to police, a woman who reported she was raped at gunpoint said she met her rapist on the dating website eHarmony.

The nation’s largest retailer has announced that it will be closing 154 stores in the U.S. and laying off as many as 10,000 employees as part of a campaign to close 269 stores worldwide.

Presidential hopefuls Chris Christie and Donald Trump used Thursday night’s GOP debate to portray themselves as pro-cop and anti-crime, during an election year in which public worries about crime are rising.

As the NFL leaves St. Louis once again, the city’s mayor has thrown up his hands and announced that the city has no further interest in pursuing the football league.

The story of the Brooklyn father who ran as five men allegedly gang raped his daughter in a city park is taking increasingly bizarre turns.

A substitute teacher at a suburban Chicago middle school is under investigation for watching porn videos in the classroom, a report says.

A pair of Oklahoma women have been arrested for allegedly beating and torturing a five-year-old boy so badly that he has had two strokes since being placed in the hospital.

For those provincials out there, Dubuque, Iowa is usually thought of as, well, a city in Iowa. But in his new effort to nationalize the states, Obama has essentially reassigned the venerable Hawkeye State city to Chicago.

In 1996 everyone expected up-and-coming football star Lawrence Phillips to become a major force on the gridiron. But now the first-round draft pick has been found dead in a California jail cell.

A Wisconsin high school suspended an athlete who posted a tweet criticizing new WIAA rules banning students from using certain words aimed at opposing teams in chants during games.