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 Boeing can try again for the $35 billion Air Force refueling tanker contract: MORE>>
• Boeing predicts increased spending on commercial p***s in next 20 years: MORE>>
• Northwest to cut 2,500 jobs: MORE>>
Rude, hostile hospital staff could affect standing says the Joint Commission, the powerful accreditor of U.S. hospitals: MORE>>
Sears interested in bankrupt retailer Steve & Barry's?: MORE>>
Environmental group sues to prevent BP from expanding its refinery along Lake Michigan in Whiting: MORE>>
Brunswick shares dive 9 percent after debt downgrade: MORE>>
Several local banks trading near 52-week lows: MORE>>
Belgians are paying nearly $1,000 for iPhones: MORE>>
Japanese agency rules that one of Toyota's top engineers died from working too much: MORE>>
You may have to pay for luggage and pretzels on United, but you can get your ticks for free: MORE>>
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"Drinking our coffee is not like drinking jug wine. We're focused on intensity of flavors and providing coffee in the way it tastes best. And it's not in that size," said Intelligentsia Coffee founder and Chief Executive Doug Zell on the Chicago-based coffeemaker's decision to stop selling 20-ounce beverages: MORE>>
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Prosecutor says new DNA tests clear JonBenet Ramsey's family in her 1996 slaying: MORE>>
The Senate approved a wiretapping bill granting immunity to telecom companies: MORE>>
Prosecutors seeking death penalty for Glendale Heights dad who doused two sons with gas and set them on fire: MORE>>
• Waukegan mans waives extradition in wife's slaying: MORE>>
• Evanston teenager charged in death of 11-month-old girl: MORE>>
A MacArthur Foundation executive charged with videotaping up women's skirts during 4th of July festivities in Arlington Heights: MORE>>
An enormous Internet security flaw has been discovered: MORE>>
Salmonella toll tops 1,000. Now they're looking at peppers: MORE>>
A longtime North Carolina state employee has chosen to retire instead of lowering flags to honor former Sen. Jesse Helms: MORE>>
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you're willing to jump through some hoops, the city will pay half the cost of repairing pothole damage to your car: MORE>>
Thousands use Barack Obama's Web site to organize what appears to be an online mutiny: MORE>>
Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles: MORE>>
Cold War rhetoric on Condoleeza Rice's visit to Russia?: MORE>>
Fat men have bad sperm, study finds: MORE>>
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Goose Island Beer Co. is celebrating 20 years of brewing with a series of 15 specially bottled beers called the 20th Anniversary Cellar Collection. More in The Stew: MORE>>
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 Demolition crews smashed through the historic walls of Tiger Stadium: MORE>>
Derrick Rose won't play today because of a knee problem: MORE>>
Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield avoided a hearing about possible jail time by agreeing to pay thousands in back child-support: MORE>>
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 Flip-flops hurt all of us when we have to look at you wearing them. But here's how they hurt you: MORE>>
Kanye West says, no, he is not taking anger management classes. You have a problem with that?: MORE>>
Former Chicagoan tapped to direct the opera version of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth": MORE>>
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