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Obama announces $2 billion for solar power

Jul 3rd, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Saturday the awarding of nearly$2 billion (euro1.59 billion) for new solar plants that he said will create thousands of jobs and increase the country’s use of renewable energy sources. Obama disclosed the funding in his weekly radio and online address, saying it is part of his plan to bring [...]



9 Year Old Girl Gets Stuck in Chimney

Jul 1st, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News

NEW CANAAN, Conn. – A young girl climbed to the roof of her parent’s crib, and got stuck trying to come down through the chimney. Assistant Fire Chief Jack Hennessey said the girl climbed up a house painter’s ladder Wednesday morning, walked across the roof and tried to climb down the chimney. She almost made [...]



Randall Cunninghams 2-Year-Old Son Dies In A Hot Tub

Jun 30th, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News

LAS VEGAS, NV – Former Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Randall Cunningham’s 2year old son was found dead after apparently drowning in a hot tub. Las Vegas police Lt. Dennis Flynn says it appeared to have been an accident. He says a woman at the house with several other children found the boy about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday [...]



81 Year Old Man Chases Man With Machete

Jun 30th, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News

SALEM, ORE – An 81 year old man went after the owner of a taco stand with a machete because he believes the man had stole from him. Police said an 81-year-old man was arrested after he chased another man around a Salem taco stand while armed with a machete. Salem police said Monday the [...]



Chicago man gets 34 years for soliciting ex-wife’s murder

Jun 30th, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News

A Chicago man who thought he was hiring a hit man to kill his ex-wife but was in fact dealing with an undercover DuPage County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 34 years in prison today, officials said. Johnson,-Johnthis.jpg John Johnson, 42, of the 5800 block of Adams Street, was found guilty by a jury in [...]



Man Discovers He Was Shot Hours Later

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News

PEORIA, IL – Tracy Durham was apparently shot in the leg late Sunday evening, but did not feel any pain. He discovered the wound four hours later after going to sleep, waking up, and being questioned by a neighbor about his limb. Really… no bullshit. Police say Durham recalled calling the friend’s girlfriend ugly. The [...]



Murder – Suicide on the Highway

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News

A man pulled out a semi-automatic gun and killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun around and shot himself in the presence of his seven year old daughter. 25-year-old Ashley Oliver was killed Sunday by Tommie Hill, also 25, in front of his 7-year-old daughter who sat helplessly in the car as the ordeal [...]



Manute Bol

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: National and Local News


1962 – 2010



Happy Father’s Day

Jun 20th, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: Headlines, National and Local News



Gary Coleman

May 28th, 2010 | By DJ Special Blend from Chicago | Category: Headlines, National and Local News


February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010