Results tagged “winnetka”

• They should have never given him that brain: beware the Scarecrow Bandit.
• Bail has been set for the man who intentionally rammed an SUV in a case of mistaken identity/revenge.
• Confusion reigns for area car dealers over the "Cash for Clunkers" program.

75 marijuana plants were found in a Winnetka home on Wednesday when police executed a search warrant on a home in the 300 block of Hawthorn Lane. Police also found “further evidence of the production, use and distribution of [marijuana],” according to a Winnetka Police release.

Mike Kelley's new show Swingtown was supposed to premiere last winter, but the writer's strike shut down production. Instead the hour-long drama debuted on CBS last Thursday, and Kelley actually sees the delay as a blessing in disguise. The show is set in the summer of 1976, and as he astutely points out, it parallels this summer in the sense that tides seem to be shifting. Politics are reorganizing, minds are changing, and our ideals are in a state of metamorphosis. For that reason, Swingtown, though set in the past, works well alongside today's pop culture.

Senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor today. Doctors say his prognosis isn't good. [Boston Globe]