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- A Chicago police officer shot and killed a would-be robber yesterday morning. The attempted robber also happened to be a convicted felon. The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the shooting.
- Former Cook County judge, Thomas Maloney, who was convicted in 1993 of accepting bribes to fix murder cases, passed away.
- The folks at Brookfield Zoo introduced their newest edition today: a new baby Bornean orangutan. The baby was born on October 6 at the zoo; the Bornean orangutans are an endangered species.
- Veteran newscaster Warner Saunders has announced he will be retiring June 1, 2009. Saunders has been a fixture on Chicago television for almost 40 years and has been at NBC 5 since 1980.
- Halloween is next week and two of the most popular costumes this year are Heath Ledger's incarnation of The Joker and GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin. Our friends at Time Out Chicago decided to see what it would look like if you combined the two.
- Zo long, Zima.
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Thank goodness Warner Saunders is retiring!
Something is seriously wrong with him.
I don't know if it's age, dyslexia or deteriorating eyesight, but he makes an incredible number of mistakes & that's just unforgivable in his job.
WMAQ should have put him out to pasture at least five years ago.
When people speak of him in the future, it will be because he stayed around way too long, just like a lot of athletes, which I believe he was, not because of any accomplishments he had.
Sad, just sad.
Ah, Zima will be back. Some hipster bar will find a whole stash of it, start sharing it with its friends for the "ironic" quotient, it'll spread, the parent company will get wind of it and start touting it as the new PBR.
And then we can ridicule it all over again. The cirle of life continues. Hakuna Matata...
BTW, that photo is excellent, not a word I bandy about.
watch alot of TV, do ya Scooter?
Spook, if you watched him for just one 30 minute newscast, you would hear him mangle his words. After a week you'd be running from the room screaming!
Zima has been around this long? Wow. I'm feeling so 90s all of a sudden. Gotta watch Lethal Weapon 3 again.