Author: Living Legends
An Indiana abortion patient has accused a Champaign physician of perforating her uterus during the procedure and leaving half of a fetus inside her body, requiring emergency surgery afterward, according to a recent lawsuit. The medical negligence lawsuit was filed March 21 in the Circuit Court of Champaign County against abortion provider Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle of Equity Clinic by a woman identified as Jane Doe, according to court records. Reisinger-Kindle did not immediately return Tribune requests for comment on the lawsuit. The patient, a mother of four, was about 22 weeks pregnant when she traveled to the clinic for a…
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson is known for his routine and sticking with what works for him. That extends to the bat he uses. Well, at least it did. Swanson has been using the new “torpedo” bat in games this season, along with second baseman Nico Hoerner. Other Cubs hitters have tested it out to varying degrees in non-game environments. First baseman Michael Busch is among them, though he said he didn’t notice much of a difference and as of now doesn’t plan to use one. The model’s “torpedo” moniker is inspired by the barrel’s design…
Starting Tuesday, Chicago drivers can pay off long overdue tickets while dodging late fees. Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a ticket penalty amnesty program Tuesday after working the plan into his 2025 budget passed in December. Johnson’s budget also calls for adding 50 new speed cameras to raise money from drivers going over the limit. So this amnesty plan will give him a talking point to counter criticism that he’s balancing the books by relying on regressive fines. The amnesty program seeks to bring in an influx of cash from drivers who would otherwise not pay off their ticket debt amid…
The only inhabitants of the idyllic (and fictional) Scribbly Gum Island are the dysfunctional members of an extended family. When the matriarch dies, they are surprised to learn that she’s left her house not to one of them, but to an unlikely person in “The Last Anniversary” on AMC+. The six-episode series is based on the 2005 Liane Moriarty novel of the same name. It’s the fourth TV adaptation of Moriarty’s work in eight years, including “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers,” both of which star Nicole Kidman, who is also an executive producer with her production company Blossom…
Clarendon Hills and Hinsdale both landed in the top 3 of a recently released list of 2025 Best Places to Live in Illinois, and in the top 25 nationally, in the latest rankings by Niche. The best places to live are among several rankings done by Niche, which also grades schools around the state and country. Clarendon Hills ranked No. 2 in Illinois, only behind Naperville, and Hinsdale was ranked No. 3 in the state, based on grades that take into account several key factors, including the quality of local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics, and access to…
BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The fire department in Naypyitaw said the woman was successfully pulled from the rubble 91 hours after being buried when the building collapsed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit midday Friday. Experts say the likelihood of finding survivors drops dramatically after 72 hours. Death toll numbers forecast to increase The head…
NEW YORK (AP) — As the trade wars launched by U.S. President Donald Trump continue to escalate, all eyes are on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly called April 2 “Liberation Day,” with promises to roll out a set of tariffs, or taxes on imports from other countries, that he says will free the U.S. from a reliance on foreign goods. To do this, Trump has said he’ll impose “reciprocal” tariffs to match the duties that other countries charge on U.S. products. But a lot remains unknown about how these levies will actually be implemented. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on their space sprint-turned-marathon and would fly on Boeing’s Starliner again. SpaceX recently ferried the duo home after more than nine months at the International Space Station, filling in for Boeing that returned to Earth without them last year. In their first news conference since coming home, the pair said they were taken aback by all the interest and insisted they were only doing their job and putting the mission ahead of themselves and even…
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people. The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the federal government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues. At the National Institutes of Health, the world’s leading health and medical agency, the layoffs occurred as its new director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, began his first day of work. “The revolution begins today!” Health Secretary Robert F.…
The U.S. restaurant chain, known for chicken wings and its skimpy “Hooters Girls” wait-staff outfits, has filed for bankruptcy protection. HOA Restaurant Group filed the motion for Chapter 11 protection Monday in the North Texas Bankruptcy Court in Dallas. It’s the latest legacy restaurant chain to run into financial trouble amid high food and labor prices, changing customer tastes and growing competition from newer casual chains like Shake Shack. Red Lobster, TGI Fridays and Buca di Beppo all filed for bankruptcy protection last year, while the Tex-Mex chain On the Border filed for bankruptcy protection last month. Under the Hooters…