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December 5, 2009 Sun-Times Media Wire A four-story courtyard building in the South Side Avalon Park neighborhood sustained "extensive" damage in an extra-alarm fire early Saturday. A still-and-box alarm was called for the fire at the 125 by 125 building...

Last night a local bank was robbed. Some Witnesses believe they saw the robbers carrying out gold bars and sacks full of cash. Police are still investigating on the wareabouts of the robbery.

William Tecumseh Sherman accepted toasts in his honor as he sat down to Christmas dinner at Charles Green�s mansion in Savannah, Ga. Having completed his March to the Sea, Sherman crippled the South, essentially ending the Civil War. The dinner...

Women are driving longer into their pregnancies -- often saving maternity leave until after giving birth -- a lifestyle change that is leading to predictions of an increase in fetal deaths in car crashes. Researchers aware of the trends are...

Ridgeway Ave., Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said. Firefighters entered through the front door and found a 65-year-old man inside, Langford said...A female was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair to serious condition, according to Fire Media Affairs...

An Amtrak train smashed into a car maneuvering around a crossing arm in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday, killing the driver, police said...Joseph Wright told the Lincoln Journal Star witnesses saw the driver going around the railroad tracks' crossing arm.

Transportation Reporter mwisniewski@suntimes.com Passengers on a crowded northbound Red Line train say they got an unwanted thrill ride early Sunday morning -- a door was stuck open from Addison to Sheridan. The CTA said it is investigating the passengers' report...

Police and fire officials said they suspect an arsonist may have started the fire that destroyed a school in Gothenburg, Sweden, early Saturday. The Local said despite the involvement of nearly 50 firefighters, the Torslanda school in the city's Hisingen...