Extra Extra: Sen. Durbin Calls For Investigation Of NFL Bounties
By Samantha Abernethy in News on Mar 23, 2012 11:00PM
- Sen. Dick Durbin is calling for hearings to decide if bounties in professional sports should be considered a crime. "Let's be real basic about it here," Durbin told NBC. "If this activity were taking place off of a sporting field, away from a court, nobody would have a second thought (about whether it's wrong). 'You mean, someone paid you to go out and hurt someone?'" [NBC]
- City Council has advanced a proposal that would allow residents to live and work in the same storefront or space. Wait, isn't that what we bloggers do? [Sun-Times]
- A fight broke out at an East St. Louis High School... among the parents... at a conflict resolution meeting. [Belleville News-Democrat]
- The girl who inspired the Plain White Ts song "Hey There, Delilah" is an aspiring Olympian, who ran in the Shamrock Shuffle. [Sun-Times]
- What if OK Go created a dating site for its fans? [A.V. Club]
- National Democrats say the road to a congressional majority goes through Illinois. [Sun-Times]
- Kazakhstan is demanding an apology from Kuwait after a spoof national anthem from Borat was played at a medal ceremony instead of their real national anthem. [Fox]