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• That was fast. One day after Sun-Times Media Group and its unions agreed to terms, a bankruptcy judge approved the sale of STMG to an investment group headed by Mesirow Financial's James Tyree. [Crain's]
• A survey of drivers lists texting behind kids, eating and other drivers as bigger distractions. [Tribune]
• Shocking video of a Dolton policeman beating a special needs student because of a dress code infraction [CBS2]

• Education Secretary Arne Duncan is earmarking $500,000 to Fenger High School to combat high school violence in the wake of the murder of Derrion Albert. [Crain's]
• A fight broke out at Julian high School this afternoon as classes let out for the day. [Chicago Breaking News]
• Steve Rhodes with a wonderful piece on the roots of youth violence. [Beachwood Reporter]

• Chicago-based diamond company LifeGen plans to turn locks of Michael Jackson's hair into diamonds. Company founder Dean VandenBiesen says LifeGen will "extract carbon from the King of Pop's hair and turn it into crystals, which can be refined into diamonds."
• Chicagoan Jerry Lowery has been charged with three counts of armed robbery and one count of fleeing an officer after allegedly stealing $45,000 worth of eye wear from suburban Milwaukee stores. The motivation? Prosecutors say he "really likes to be around glasses."
• Family members are checking grave sites and county sheriffs are investigating after a human bone was found in a Mount Glenwood cemetery. "I don't know whether this is a sign of a greater problem or if there is a valid reason why this bone was found where it was," said Cook County sheriff's police spokesman Steve Patterson.

• Now that Mother's Day is over, let's focus on finding something to do with dear old Dad on Father's Day for a bit of bonding. How about robbing banks together?
• Lafayette, Indiana police are looking for information regarding the theft of a life-sized dog statue taken from in front of the public library. The sudden appearance of a life-sized dog statue atop a keg inside a Purdue frat house just a coincidence.
• Chicago's Roosevelt University is adding an athletic program after 20 years without one and are just working out some minor snafus, like not having any athletic facilities.

• In puppy news, dogs seized in a puppy mill raid on the south side have all been adopted.
• The University in Chicago Medical Center is in trouble after an audit found the hospital violated federal law when an emergency room patient died. Perhaps this has a little something to do with why a highly criticized plan to move the ER has been temporarily tabled.
• A principal in Wisconsin has had his school fight song changed because it contained the word "fellow," which he felt was sexist.

• President-Elect Obama's team is set to release a report that will clear Rahmbo of the Blago mess. Too bad, we were hoping for a wiretap transcript that would have made Glengarry Glen Ross seem like a Disney movie.
• Ah, Christmas-themed irony, our favorite kind. Dozens of health department workers in southern Illinois became sick -- after eating ham at their own office's holiday party. That's why we usually go with an all bacon Christmas dinner.
• Despite millions traveling over the holidays, beleaguered airline United has told their flight attendants union that more layoffs may be coming soon -- perhaps 250 more jobs next month on top of the 1,550 flight attendant jobs cut a few months ago. Expect the airlines to be next with their hat in hand in front of Congress any day now.

So THAT explains why Daley keeps trying to snag us with red light cameras, arcane parking rules, and bottled water taxes ... he needs to pay all those lawyers

• Hummer owners are feeling the squeeze from high gas prices. Boo. Hoo.
• Technology in Action: Cook County Sheriff's officials are now busting prostitutes on Craigslist.
• On Sunday, DePaul PhD candidate Karen Alkolby will become the first deaf woman in U.S. history to earn a doctorate in computer science. Alkolby created a computerized dictionary that translates English to American Sign language.

"One Mint Julep" seems to be a fitting theme for this week, in both photo and song (Last.fm doesn't lie). Let's move on, shall we? Today is "Charlie Trotter Day" in Chicago, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the opening of his eponymous restaurant. The Sun-Times had a couple of nice pieces this week in conjunction. We linked to Janet Fuller's story of Trotter's first two employees, who are still with him today, in...