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Extra Extra: Tucker Carlson Wants To Have Dinner With Bill Ayers

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Dec 17, 2011 10:00PM


  • Conservative Fox News correspondent and bow-tie enthusiast Tucker Carlson bid $2,500 to have dinner with Bill Ayers, the 60s-era radical turned educator turned Republican punching bag. [Tribune]

  • A police dog in Braidwood has been fired for brutality. [Sun-Times]

  • The Chicago Department of Public Health is starting a syphilis awareness and prevention campaign [Get Tested Chicago]

  • The Associated Press says the death of Osama Bin Laden is the top news story of 2011. [AP]

  • The five people found dead in downstate Emington, Ill., appear to be the result of a murder-suicide. The mother appears to have killed her three children and her boyfriend. [CBS]

  • A Roosevelt University professor is suing the school for firing him after he was accused of harassment. [Windy City Times]