License number leads cops to salon robbery suspect

The Evanston man charged with robbing nearly a dozen hair salons in Chicago, Skokie, Morton Grove, Broadview and Niles was apprehended...

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Tunisia protests after government critic shot dead

TUNIS (Reuters) - A fierce critic of the Tunisian government's dealings with radical Islamists was shot dead on Wednesday, sending protesters onto the streets two years after their Jasmine Revolution sparked revolt across the Arab world. The headquarters of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which rules in a fractious coalition with secularists, was set ablaze after Chokri Belaid, an...

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S&P 500 gains more than 1 percent

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 rose more than 1 percent on Tuesday as stronger-than-expected earnings helped the outlook for profit growth while the Nasdaq also traded more than 1 percent higher. The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> was up 121.55 points, or 0.88 percent, at 14,001.63. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> was up 16.25 points, or 1.09 percent,...

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Vonn tears ligaments in right knee, out for season

SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) — The U.S. Ski Team says Lindsey Vonn has torn ligaments in her right knee and broken a bone in a crash Tuesday at the world championships.The team says Vonn will have surgery and will miss the rest of this season but is expected to return for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.The team says Vonn tore her anterior and medial cruciate ligaments in her right knee and fractured a bone in...

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Richard III 'still the criminal king'

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Northwestern-Cubs deal: 5 Wrigley football games

NU athletic director Jim Phillips talks about a new partnership Tuesday with the Cubs at Wrigley Field. ...

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Iran's Ahmadinejad kissed and scolded in Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was both kissed and scolded on Tuesday when he began the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The trip was meant to underline a thaw in relations since Egyptians elected an Islamist head of state, President Mohamed Mursi, last June. But it also highlighted deep theological and geopolitical differences....

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Wall Street retreats from five-year high

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Monday after a disappointing report on factory orders, retreating from gains in the prior session that left the S&P 500 at a five-year high and the Dow above 14,000. Investors also grew wary on political uncertainty in the euro zone, leading to a sharp rise in Spanish government bond yields. Chevron and Wal-Mart were among the biggest...

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Indiana moves back into No. 1 in AP poll

For the fifth straight week there is a new No. 1 in The Associated Press' college basketball poll. This time it's Indiana.The Hoosiers, the preseason No. 1 who held the top spot for the first five weeks of the regular season, moved up two spots Monday, following their weekend win over No. 1 Michigan and No. 2 Kansas' loss to Oklahoma State.Duke started the current streak of new No. 1s and was followed...

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Hot, dry weather returns to threaten Ivory Coast cocoa

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Dry, hot weather returned to top grower Ivory Coast‘s main cocoa regions last week, raising concerns over output and bean quality as the October to March main crop harvest wound down, farmers and analysts said on Monday.Aside from a spate of showers in late January, there has been no measurable rainfall across most of the West African nation’s cocoa belt since the onset of the...

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