Extra, Extra

By Rachelle Bowden in News on Jan 26, 2007 4:26AM

• Will Lovie switch teams or will he stay with the Bears?
• The Cubs signed Cliff Floyd.
• Scott Podsednik hurt his groin, but the Sox signed Darin Erstad.
• Dusty Baker finalized a 2-year contract with ESPN.
• Are the Bulls looking to trade for Pau Gasol?
• The lions outside the Art Institute are about to show their Bears pride.
• A fire in a Lakeview apartment yesterday may have been started by a charging laptop.
• MetroFi may provide free wireless for residences and businesses in Geneva, St. Charles and Batavia. They're already building systems in Aurora and Naperville.
• McDonalds sold off Chipotle and it helped them double their earnings for the fourth quarter.
• A cop in Channahon responded to a call about a cat attacking kids. When he got there the cat was bleeding from its mouth and eyes. He took it to a rural area and shot it. Then he was fired. Not for shooting the cat, but for lying about it.
• So you're a 22-year-old man in Joliet and you've got an underaged girlfriend... If you want to sit in jail for 3 years, grab your girlfriend's dad's cell phone and take pictures of you and your girl getting it on.
• In Dolton, a man's body was found hanging in a dugout of an abandoned baseball park.
• Finally, a couple in the west suburbs who run a pet store bought a bunch of illegally caught and sold juvenile leopard sharks. They plead guilty and got a $10,000 fine. The Shedd is helping care for the sharks confiscated.

"Subway Serenader" via Michael DaKidd.