CHICAGO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Following the publication of Global Traveler magazine’s Tested Reader Survey Awards in the December 2008 issue, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts announced that Park Hyatt hotels was selected as the Best International Hotel Chain ...
4 Dec 2008
The US United Auto Workers union has said it is willing to make concessions to help secure a $34bn government bailout of the country's car manufacturers. Ron Gettelfinger, the union's president, said on Wednesday in Detroit that it would alter union ...
4 Dec 2008
A Clifton Park man who refereed soccer games around the Capital Region pleaded guilty to federal charges Thursday that he attempted to seduce a 14-year-old boy using a computer. Thomas Gorsin, 53, pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment in U.S ...
4 Dec 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) - General Electric Co. 's media and theme park subsidiary, NBC Universal , this week laid off about 500 employees _ about 3 percent of its work force of 15,000 _ as part of a plan to trim $500 million next year, a person familiar ...
4 Dec 2008
The Prop. 8 backlash continues, this time in the form of a parody musical featuring an all-star cast of celebrities posted on website FunnyOrDie.com . The three-minute Prop. 8 - The Musical was written by Tony winner Marc Shaiman -- who admitted ...
4 Dec 2008
Some hawks have become permanent squatters in Wiliamsburg hipster haven McCarren Park. They are very disaffected, just sort of loitering there on their skinny legs and silently judging you. One of them has a flatly worded MySpace page: "i am a red ...
4 Dec 2008
- Two people were found shot this afternoon at a park in Federal Way.
4 Dec 2008
GENERAL: London 2012 chief Paul Deighton has defended plans to use Greenwich Park for equestrian events.
4 Dec 2008
Wheaton city and park district officials are trying to hash out a plan that divides costs between them for renovations to Northside Park.
4 Dec 2008
Bond was set at $325,000 Thursday for a South Side man charged with attempted armed robbery after a Tuesday incident in which a man was pistol-whipped in the North Side Lincoln Park neighborhood.
4 Dec 2008
Bond was set at $275,000 today for a Chicago man accused of two home invasions in Oak Park. Cheo Ibura, 26, faces a multitude of charges, including home invasion, aggravated unlawful restraint and armed robbery. He was arrested by police at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of Humphrey Avenue in the west suburb. Ibura allegedly admitted he had also committed an earlier home invasion in the ...
4 Dec 2008
A 16-year-old Chicago boy was arrested Wednesday night after police said he attacked and robbed an Oak Park woman after she had gotten off a CTA train. Police told the Wednesday Journal the woman had exited the Ridgeland station shortly before 7 p.m. and was walking to her car in the 300 block of Lake Street when she was attacked. The suspect tried to steal the woman 's purse, but she ...
4 Dec 2008
Select ratingPoorOkayGoodGreatAwesome Popsci Authors: SciIll StaffPosted 12.4.08 at 2:29 pm 0 CommentsBeneath Saudi Arabia’s blazing sun, the largest greenhouse ever planned is taking shape. It will take visitors on a walk through.
4 Dec 2008
If you live in Park Slope and don’t know that stores are staying open late and offering specials and discounts, we’re very unclear as to how you lack this knowledge as the organizers have promoted the hell out of it. ...
4 Dec 2008
Lake Tiorati was formed by clearing swampland in Harriman State Park and constructing a concrete dam to make two ponds into one large lake. Surrounded by meadows and rolling, wooded hills, the park offers excellent swimming, fishing, ...
4 Dec 2008
Federal officials say the National Park Service will take over the management of abandoned federal land near Fort Snelling.
4 Dec 2008
Apologies to the late Borough President JJ Byrne because JJ Byrne Park, located on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets, has been officially renamed Washington Park, restoring the park to its true place in history as the site of the ...
4 Dec 2008
Hipsters of McCarren Park (and rodents, pigeons, etc.), they are watching you like hawks. Literally. A GL reader and occasional contributor sent in a series of photos of one of the hawks that have taken up residence in everyone’s ...
4 Dec 2008