Extra Extra: Two Babies Battle For Baby New Year Title
- Continuing the annual tradition of caring about strangers' babies on New Year's Day, two area babies were born in the first nanoseconds of 2012, tying for the title of Baby New Year. When reached for comment, the contenders made weird faces, then farted. [Sun-Times]
- A historic clock factory in Peru, Ill., burned down in a massive fire, and two teens have been charged with arson. [News Tribune]
- What kind of date did you have for New Year's Eve? [Smosh]
- Apparently Hemingway fans celebrate him on Boxing Day in his native Oak Park. [TribLocal]
- Two teens were killed and three injured when they stole and crashed an SUV near Homewood. [NBC]
- Indiana's first black female mayor takes office in Gary today. [ABC7]
- Did you know Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic masterpiece The Birds was based on a true story? Well scientists think they figured out why the birds attacked. [Washington Post]
