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Extra Extra: Former Bear Sam Hurd Ordered To Jail On Drug Charges

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Aug 28, 2012 11:00PM


  • Former Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd has been ordered to go to prison for allegedly failing drug tests and trying to arrange a drug deal while out on bond for drug charges filed last December. [ABC7]

  • Cardinal Francis George will begin chemotherapy treatments next week for liver and kidney cancer. [Tribune]

  • A South Side man suffered a serious brain injury when a tree fell on him while he was working on a car. [ABC7]

  • Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today a $4.7 million from the national foreclosure settlement is going to Chicago's Legal Assistance Foundation. [NBC]

  • Groupon’s stock closed Monday at $4.41 a share, 78 percent below its $20 IPO price, but one analyst thinks it has a ways to go before hitting bottom. [Sun-Times]

  • The guys from Insane Clown Posse watched the video for Carly Rae Jepson's "Call Me Maybe." No, really, they did. Watch them narrate it. [Gawker]