Extra Extra: Sam Hurd Pleads Not Guilty To Drug Charges
- Former Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd has assembled a new legal defense team and today entered a plea of not guilty to federal drug conspiracy charges. Hurd was allowed to file the plea electronically to avoid the media. [ABC7]
- Gapers Block spoke with Chicagoist contributor Aaron Cynic about the state of the Occupy movement in Chicago. [Gapers Block]
- Fox News thinks it's really clever for "unearthing" a non-secret 1995 article about Barack Obama from the Chicago Reader. [Chicago Reader]
- As abandoned buildings in Michigan are torn down, ghost signs pop up. We're no stranger to the phenomenon, but theirs are pretty cool, too. [New York Times]
- Musician Lyle Lovett dissed Chef Rick Bayless saying, "it can’t be that good if a guy named Bayless is cooking it." Apparently you have to be Mexican to make Mexican food. [Garden & Gun Magazine]
- The man who survived Jeffrey Dahmer now faces 1 1/2 years in prison for lying to the police about a drowning in Milwaukee. [Tribune]
- Starbucks plans to have five to seven locations serving wine and beer in Chicago by the end of 2012. [NBC]
