Daily Archives: Jul 23, 2009

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina— Lenny Kravitz's concert in Bosnia offered a rare glimpse of international glamour in a nation still struggling with the aftermath of a devastating ethnic war.

WASHINGTON— The White House says the media's "obsessions" are keeping alive President Barack Obama's comments about the arrest of a Harvard University scholar seen trying to get into his own house.

WASHINGTON— A powerful House committee chairman is threatening to force a floor vote to break the impasse on health care overhaul.

WASHINGTON— Republican Sen. John Cornyn, the head of his party's Senate campaign arm, said Friday he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, siding with GOP leaders and conservatives who are lining up against President Barack Obama's

CLEVELAND— Nike says it is returning videotapes it confiscated of NBA star LeBron James getting dunked on at a recent basketball camp.

Two local Black funeral directors, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, were among those who testified Thursday before a state task force that is analyzing how to better regulate cemeteries.

The arraignment of a New Jersey blogger accused of threatening three Chicago-based federal appeals judges has been postponed.

Federal immigration officials have arrested 19 immigrants who are suspected gang members in a two-day operation in the Chicago area.

URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois will spend $4.21 million to decommission a small nuclear reactor on its Urbana-Champaign campus.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — A farm management trade group says Illinois agricultural land values have dropped this year and are likely to stay flat or keep falling.