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CHICAGO’S POLICE SUPT. RESIGNS THE TUBE Chicago’s police superintendent announced Monday he was retiring as his department deals with two highly publicized TV HIGHLIGHT videotaped beatings involving off-duty police officers. Chill the beverages, get the wings ready and send the women SPORTS and children away — it’s Madness time. Opening Day blues for Sox, Cubs LISTINGS INSIDE Cleveland Indians' Grady Sizemore hit a home run in the first inning against the White UPDATES Sox Monday, as Cleveland took an 11-3 lead in the ninth inning SUNTIMES.COM in Chicago. Meanwhile, the For the latest in any Cubs lost 5-1 in Cincinnati. stories in this edition or as they break in your neighborhood GAMES and in the world, log onto Chicago’s best TEASE YOUR BRAIN, PASS THE TIME information portal. Sudoku and a crossword will help ease the commute MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. DOWNLOAD| METRO CS-TP.M. LOCAL WIRE METRO IN DEPTH Breaking news from the Chicago region as of 3:45 p.m.
11:17 A.M.. Schaumburg was an accident. Ron- Chicago top cop nice Linear, 8, of 2253 Pennview Tribune accepts Zell’s Lane in Schaumburg, died of hy- poxic encephalopathy, drowning Cline resigns $8.2 bil. buyout offer and a seizure disorder, according to CHICAGO | Tribune Co. has ac- a report from the Cook County Med- BY ANDREW HERRMANN, cepted a buyout offer from real es- ical Examiner’s office. The Thursday KATE GROSSMAN tate investor Sam Zell in a deal val- autopsy ruled her death to be an and FRAN SPIELMAN ued at about $8.2 billion and plans accident. Staff Reporters to sell the Chicago Cubs at the end Chicago Police Supt. Philip J. Cline resigned today in of this season, the media company 3:19 P.M. the aftermath of two highly publicized instances of al- said Monday. The owner of the Chi- leged police misconduct. The resignation by Cline — cago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Shot fired during who has been on the force for 37 years and Chicago’s top and various other newspapers and robbery, no one hurt cop since 2003 — followed a closed-door meeting with TV stations spent six months solicit- BOLINGBROOK | A shot was Mayor Daley, the first between the superintendent and ing bids and reviewing offers. Trib- his boss since the incidents occurred. une had set a self-imposed March fired but no one was injured during a robbery Thursday afternoon at a During a short City Hall news conference, Daley de- 31 deadline to announce a spin-off, nied he requested the superintendent’s resignation. In buyout or reorganization. In addi- Pay Day Loan Store in southwest suburban Bolingbrook. Just after 1 fact, he said Cline had broached the subject of retire- tion to the Zell bid, the Tribune con- ment a year ago, only to be encouraged by the mayor to sidered a competing offer from Los p.m. Thursday, Bolingbrook police remain on the job until after the February election. Angeles billionaires Eli Broad and responded to the Pay Day Loan But the mayor went on to suggest otherwise by saying Ron Burkle. The company has been Store at 348 Commons Dr., for a call under pressure from key sharehold- from an employee that the store it was “time for a change,” and that Cline’s decision had ers to boost its stock price and, had just been robbed and the of- been “very emotional, to be very frank.” along with others in the newspaper fender had fired a gun, according to “In submitting his resig- industry, has been losing readers a release from police. Witnesses nation, he took responsi- and advertisers to the Internet. told police that the man entered bility for the incidents of Tribune is the nation’s second through the front door with a hand- police misconduct that biggest newspaper publisher after gun and demanded money from have occurred recently and Gannett Co. cash drawers. made it clear to me — as he 2:15 P.M. did to the people of Chi- 2:58 P.M. cago last week — that he Threat of falling glass should have acted immedi- Police probe theft from ately to discipline officers River North gallery closes Monroe St. and that no special treat- CHICAGO | Police were investi- CHICAGO | Monroe Street was ment should be given to gating the burglary of an art gallery opened back up Thursday after- protect them,” Daley said. after someone broke in and stole noon after a window broke and “He understands how several pieces of art Thursday glass was reportedly hanging from important it is that the morning in the River North area. At the old Carson Pirie Scott building people of our city trust the 6:28 a.m., an unknown person or in the Loop. Monroe Street, which police to protect and de- persons made forcible entry to a had been closed from Wabash to fend them and that mis- gallery on the 200 block of West State due to the unsafe condition, conduct needs to be taken was opened back up at 1:11 p.m., seriously and disciplined Huron Street and made off with Mayor Daley discusses “multiple sculptures.” according to police News Affairs Of- when it occurs. And he ac- ficer John Henry. Police received no Police Supt. Phil J. Cline’s resignation Monday. knowledged that these inci- 2:57 P.M. reports of injuries, he said. Police dents tarnish the entire de- received a call of glass hanging partment and undermine the painstaking efforts he’s Scalia daughter won’t from the fifth floor of the north made to deepen the relationship between Chicago’s po- façade of the building at 36 S. lice officers and the people of our city.” fight driving penalty Wabash Ave. at 11:10 a.m. WHEATON | The daughter of U.S. Cline, 57, said he will stay on while a new superin- Supreme Court Justice Antonin 21:57 P.M. tendent is chosen. He did not take questions from re- Scalia won’t fight an automatic six- porters during a brief news conference at police head- month suspension of her driver’s li- Hearing delayed for quarters at 35th and Michigan.But in an apparent cense after being arrested for driv- Bears’ Tank reference to the recent embarrassments, he said: “Leav- ing under the influence and child ing in these times of challenge makes my decision even endangerment, her attorneys said. CHICAGO | A parole violation more difficult. So I’ve agreed to stay while the Police hearing for Chicago Bears lineman Board conducts a search for my successor.’’ 3:17 P.M. Tank Johnson has been delayed un- til 2 p.m. Bears Coach Lovie Smith Death of girl, 8, arrived with Johnson at the court- house for the sentencing hearing ILLINOIS LOTTERY ruled an accident for violating probation on a 2005 SCHAUMBURG | A Thursday au- weapons conviction, the Sun-Times topsy has ruled that the death of an is reporting. Johnson, 25, could be Today’s early numbers 8-year-old girl found unresponsive sentenced to up to a year in prison next to a bathtub Tuesday night in by Cook County Judge John Moran. Midday drawing: Pick 3—xxx Pick 4—xxxx MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. DOWNLOAD| NATION CS-TP.M. NATIONAL REPORT NATION IN DEPTH Breaking news from the wires as of 3:45 p.m.
CALIFORNIA, 2:12 P.M. WASHINGTON, 2:09 P.M. Prison inmate Former Reagan aide Cheney blasts Dems Stockman charged WASHINGTON | .Vice President escapes from Dick Cheney MONDAY blasted the WASHINGTON | David Stockman, Democrat-controlled Congress for the former budget director in the trying to manage the U.S. Iraq strat- Reagan White House, was charged egy, saying its wartime role is ‘‘lim- hospital in Ohio in an indictment unsealed Monday ited’’ by law and urging lawmakers with overseeing a sweeping fraud at By JOHN McCARTHY not to shortchange funding for Associated Press Writer a troubled auto parts supplier that troops. he led before the company collapsed HILLIARD, Ohio (AP) — Police surrounded a house where a prison inmate was believed to have holed up into bankruptcy. NEW MEXICO, 1:22 P.M. Monday after overpowering an armed guard in a hospital NEW YORK, , 2:19 P.M. N.M. lawmakers to and fleeing with a weapon and a guard’s uniform. Billy Jack Fitzmorris, 34, was believed to have escaped Hundreds of mourners require cancer vacine on foot from St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, for Bronx fire victims ALBUQUERQUE | New Mexico is according to Corrections Corporation of America. The on the verge of becoming the latest company runs the Northeast Ohio Correction Center in NEW YORK | Hundreds of mourn- state to require sixth-grade girls to ers prayed over small, simple cas- Youngstown, where Fitzmorris had been held since Feb- be vaccinated against a sexually ruary for the U.S. Marshals Service. kets at a tear-filled funeral Monday transmitted virus that can cause cer- for the nine children and a woman Two nurses and several prison workers were briefly vical cancer, a spokesman for the held in a hospital room during the escape, authorities killed when a fire raced through governor said Monday. The state their extended family’s home in the said. House approved the bill Sunday, A few hours later, police surrounded a house in Bronx. The children’s fathers, one and Gov. Bill Richardson will sign it who lost his wife and all his chil- Hilliard, a Columbus sub- once he receives the legislation, urb about 150 miles south- dren, joined Muslim prayers for the spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said. dead during a brief service. One tiny west of Youngstown, where coffin held the bodies of his 7- PENNSYLVANIA, 12:59 P.M. Fitzmorris was believed to month-old twins, Sise and Harouna be hiding, said David Siler Soumare. Hazelton, Pa., defends of the Marshals Service’s fugitive task force. It was TEXAS, 2:14 P.M. immigration crackdown not clear how Fitzmorris SCRANTON | IThere is no evi- was believed to have trav- Former President Bush dence to back up the Hazleton eled that far, and Siler had released after collapse mayor’s claim that illegal immi- no further details. grants are destroying the quality of HOUSTON | Former President Television footage life in his city, an ACLU attorney told showed a man breaking George H.W. Bush was treated at a a judge Monday at the start of the California hospital for dehydration into the house after aban- first federal trial on local efforts to doning a car nearby. A and released Monday after collaps- curb illegal immigration. Last sum- ing during a golf outing in Palm woman later climbed out a mer, Hazleton officials passed the second story window and Springs.Jean Becker, Bush’s chief of city’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act, staff, told The Associated Press that dropped to the ground as imposing fines on landlords who police arrived. Bush fainted while playing golf with rent to illegal immigrants and deny- Police at the house were friends Sunday in 94-degree heat. ing business permits to companies that employ them. not providing further in- TEXAS, 1:51 P.M. formation and it was un- Infant kidnap suspect MASSACHUSETTS, 2:50 P.M. clear whether Fitzmorris Billy Jack Fitzmorris was still in the house. faces extradition Mass. agency wants Corrections Corporation LUBBOCK | .A woman arrested in detainees released spokeswoman Louise Grant said Fitzmorris has been New Mexico on suspicion of snatch- awaiting sentencing but she did not know what charge BOSTON | I The head of Massa- ing a newborn from a Texas hospital was involved. chusetts’ social services on Monday waived extradition Monday, while The company, based in Nashville, Tenn., gave no de- called for the release of 20 factory the tiny girl was back in her tails on why he was taken to the hospital Saturday or how workers arrested in an immigration mother’s arms. ‘‘We’re just happy to he overpowered the guard. He had been under observa- raid, saying many have children have her back,’’ the baby’s grandfa- with no one else to care for them. tion in his room Monday morning when the confronta- ther, Darrell Darthard, said at a brief They were among the 361 people tion occurred, the company said. hospital news conference, thanking taken in to custody following the ‘‘It’s been a scary day for us here,’’ hospital spokes- police and supporters while her raid March 6 at a Michael Bianco woman Tina Creighton told CNN. mother quietly cradled the infant in Inc. factory. They were among the She said she couldn’t discuss why the inmate was at a purple blanket. Police found 4- 361 people taken in to custody fol- the hospital beyond saying that he was there for treat- day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu lowing the raid March 6 at a ment. on Sunday in Clovis, N.M., a day af- Michael Bianco Inc. factory.They ‘‘He overcame the guard; there was a corrections guard ter she was taken from Lubbock’s were among the 361. from the prison. He took the uniform and the weapon Covenant Lakeside Hospital. and made his escape,’’ Creighton said. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. DOWNLOAD| WORL4 CS-TP.M. GLOBAL REPORT WORLD IN DEPTH Breaking news from the wires as of 3:45 p.m.
IRAN, 3:02 P.M. ficials said. Separately, the Afghan Suicide truck parliamentary speaker said the Tal- Iran questioning iban had threatened to kill an Ital- ian journalist abducted in the coun- bomb kills 13 British captives try’s lawless south unless the TEHRAN | Iran said Monday it Italian government reviewed its pol- was questioning 15 British sailors icy toward Afghanistan. and marines to determine if their al- in Kirkuk leged entry into Iranian waters was ITALY, 12:57 P.M. ‘‘intentional or unintentional’’ be- By YAHYA BARZANJI fore deciding what to do with them Lawmaker chains self Associated Press Writer — the first sign it could be seeking a at museum in protest KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) — A suicide truck bomber targeted way out of the standoff. a police station in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk on FLORENCE | An Italian senator Monday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, SWITZERLAND, 2:34 P.M. chained himself to a column near including many children from a nearby school, police the gates of the Uffizi museum Mon- said. Human rights group day to protest the loan of Leonardo Video by an Associated Press cameraman showed at calls for Darfur action da Vinci’s ‘‘Annunciation’’ for a least four wounded U.S. soldiers and one badly damaged show at Japan’s National Museum American Humvee. The soldiers were being treated by GENEVA | A U.N. human rights in Tokyo. The ‘‘Annunciation’’ is one Army medics, with one seated while having gauze band- team criticized the international of Leonardo’s early works, painted community Monday for failing to ages wound around his bloodied head. between 1472-1475 when the mas- Another soldier, whose nose was bleeding, was stand- halt atrocities in Darfur, saying in a ter was in his early 20s. sharply worded report that the ing and waving directions to others. A third soldier was United Nations must act now to pro- BELGIUM, 12:41 P.M. carried away on a stretcher and the fourth was being tect civilians from a violence cam- treated on the ground. paign orchestrated by Sudan’s gov- U.N. report reveals The attacker rammed ernment. the truck into the concrete plan for Kosovo blast barriers protecting IRAQ, 2 P.M. BRUSSELS | The European Union the back of the compound is getting ready to enforce a U.N. at about 11:30 a.m., deto- GIs to search for plan that gives supervised state- nating his explosives, hood to Kosovo, even though Serbia which were hidden under car bomb factories has rejected giving so much auton- BAGHDAD | With violence down bags of flour, police omy to its breakaway province. Ac- spokesman Brig. Gen. in Baghdad, U.S. troops will fan out cording to a confidential report — into communities on the rim of the Sarhat Qadir said. made available Monday to The As- The Rahim Awa police capital to shut down car bomb fac- sociated Press — a 72-member Eu- compound is in a predom- tories, which remain a threat de- ropean Union delegation with 200 inantly Kurdish neighbor- spite a recent drop in execution- local support staff would have a style killings in the city, the U.S. mandate to oversee implementa- hood in a northern part of military said Monday. At least 55 tion of the U.N. plan. the city, and other officials people have been killed by bombs said U.S. troops had been in Baghdad over the last three days. RUSSIA, 3:22 P.M. visiting an Iraqi criminal investigations unit there MOROCCO, 1:49 P.M. New opposition party when the blast occurred. still supports Putin The U.S. command in Man blows self up Baghdad said it was look- MOSCOW | A new party that pro- ing into the report. in Internet cafe motes itself as an opposition group A US Army Apache Bombings elsewhere in Iraq CASABLANCA | A man who was but supports Vladimir Putin took a helicopter flies over prevented from looking at terror prominent place on Russia’s politi- the site of an explo- killed at least 11 people and Web sites by the owners of an Inter- cal stage Monday after regional sion in Baghdad wounded more than 40. net cafe blew himself up with explo- elections that further consolidated Monday. A British soldier also was killed sives hidden on his body, a spokes- the president’s hold on power. in southern Iraq, British military man for the Interior Ministry said spokeswoman Katie Brown said, the second British Monday. It was possible that the BRITAIN, P.M. death in as many days. The death raised to 136 the num- man was transporting explosives ber of British forces to die in Iraq since the March 2003 that went off at an unplanned mo- Al Gore TV invasion. ment, said ministry spokesman Ab- goes to Britain The violence came a day after Sen. John McCain led a derrahman Achour.. Republican congressional delegation on a heavily LONDON | Former Vice President guarded tour of a central Baghdad market and declared AFGHANISTAN, 1:31 P.M. Al Gore brought his interactive Cur- rent TV channel to Britain on Mon- that a nearly 7-week-old security crackdown to pacify Roadside bomb kills 9 day, arguing that democracy will the capital is working. help save television in the Internet McCain, a presidential hopeful who was a prisoner of KABUL | A roadside bomb target- war in Vietnam, acknowledged a difficult task lies ahead ing a police convoy killed nine offi- age — and that television could help save democracy. Current TV in Iraq, but criticized the media for not giving Americans cers, including a local commander, enough information about the recent drop in execution- and left one critically wounded now reaches 40 million homes in style sectarian killings, the establishment of security Monday in western Afghanistan, of- the United States. posts throughout the city. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. DOWNLOAD | SPORTS CS-TP.M. ON AND OFF THE FIELD GOING DEEP Sports news in brief from tennis courts to criminal courts BASKETBALL Wade was on the floor for some Tribune plans 5-on-5 and other drills for about 90 Jackson, Williams lead minutes, then planned to do about another 90 minutes of weightlifting Hall of Fame class and physical therapy afterward. to sell Cubs ATLANTA | Phil Jackson, who has Wade was averaging 28.8 points won NBA titles in two cities, and when he was hurt in a collision with Roy Williams, who has taken two Houston’s Shane Battier on Feb. 21. after ’07 season schools to NCAA championship games, topped a class of seven se- MISCELLANEOUS Tribune Co. said it plans to sell the Chicago Cubs at the lected Monday to enter the Basket- end of the 2007 baseball season, putting one of its most ball Hall of Fame in September. Toledo unsure if more valuable assets on the block as it simultaneously an- Also selected were the 1966 NCAA players will be charged nounced Monday that real estate magnate Sam Zell was champion Texas Western team, four- acquiring the media conglomerate. TOLEDO, Ohio | Athletic officials at time WNBA championship coach Van Analysts have estimated that the Cubs could fetch the University of Toledo said Monday Chancellor, former NBA referee $600 million or more. Tribune bought the team in 1981 they don’t know if any more players for $20.5 million. Mendy Rudolph and international will be charged in what the FBI says ‘‘The Cubs have been an important part of Tribune for coaches Fedro Ferrandiz of Spain and was a point-shaving scheme. more than 25 years and are one of the most storied fran- Mirko Novosel of Yugoslavia. Federal authorities arrested run- chises in all of sports,’’ said Dennis FitzSimons, Tribune Among the notable finalists who ning back Harvey ‘‘Scooter’’ Mc- chairman, president did not receive the required 18 Dougle Jr. on Friday, charging him and chief executive of- votes from 24 members of the hon- with participating in a bribery scheme ficer. ‘‘In our last sea- ors committee were ESPN broad- to influence sporting contests. son of ownership, the caster Dick Vitale and longtime col- McDougle, 22, and a senior from team has one mission, lege coach Eddie Sutton. East Cleveland, recruited Toledo and that is to win for COLLEGE BASKETBALL football and basketball players to our great fans.’’ participate in the scheme orches- Tribune said the Arkansas seems close trated by a Michigan man identified company’s 25 per- only as ‘‘Gary,’’ according to a crim- cent interest in to naming Altman inal complaint filed in U.S. District Comcast Sport- FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. | The University Court. sNetChicago would of Arkansas called a news confer- Athletic Director Mike O’Brien be part of the sale ence Monday to name a new bas- said he has no plans to interview package. ketball coach and all signs pointed any other athletes and that federal The Cubs’ to Creighton’s Dana Altman, who authorities are taking the lead on strength as a sports was seen at a Nebraska airport get- the investigation. franchise — and the ting off a plane registered to lure of potentially Arkansas’ athletic boosters’ group. HOCKEY steering them to Arkansas officials said they did their first cham- not have permission to confirm that Devils fire Julien, pionship since 1908 Altman would replace Stan Heath, Lamoriello takes over — has attracted the who was fired last week after failing interest of many po- EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. | Claude Tribune Co. announced plans to sell to lead the Razorbacks to a single tential buyers. Bil- Julien was fired as New Jersey Dev- the Cubs after the 2007 season. –AP NCAA tournament victory in five years lionaire entrepre- ils coach Monday and replaced by at the school. Altman has a 2-7 record neur Mark Cuban, general manager Lou Lamoriello in the NCAA with the Blue Jays. actor Bill Murray and columnist George Will are among with less than a week to go in the those rumored to have interest, along with numerous PRO FOOTBALL regular season. Chicago business figures. The firing comes after the Devils Jerry Colangelo, chairman of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns NFL calls off China won four of their last five games. The and former owner of both the Suns and baseball’s Ari- team is in first place in the Atlantic zona Diamondbacks, told The Associated Press in No- exhibition game Division with three games to go. vember that he would have ‘‘great interest’’ in buying his NEW YORK | The exhibition game hometown baseball franchise if it became available and scheduled for China in August was BASEBALL had already held preliminary discussions with others canceled Monday by the NFL, which who might join him in a bid. said it wanted to concentrate its MLB sets spring Speculation that the struggling Tribune Co. might sell ‘‘global resources’’ on next October’s attendance record the Cubs ramped up last fall when it put itself up for pos- regular-season game in London. NEW YORK | Major League Baseball sible sale, under pressure from disgruntled sharehold- ers. It intensified with the club’s offseason spending drew a record 3,421,055 fans to NBA spree, including signing outfielder Alfonso Soriano to an spring training games in 2007, sur- eight-year contract for $136 million — the fifth-richest Heat’s Wade returns passing the previous high of contract in major league history. to practice 3,405,043 set in 2005. Tribune had said for months that it would focus first Grapefruit League games in on a sale of the entire company before considering sell- MIAMI | Dwyane Wade practiced Florida established a new atten- with the Miami Heat on Monday, the ing individual pieces, which also include 23 television sta- dance record for the second consecu- tions and 11 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, first time he’d taken part in a full tive year, drawing 1,707,750 fans, workout since dislocating his left Los Angeles Times, Newsday and eight other dailies. the league said Monday. That sur- AP shoulder nearly six weeks ago. passed last year’s total of 1,604,393. MONDAY APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. PDF EDITION | FINANCIAL CS-TP.M. THE TICKER CLOSING BELL Breaking business news from the wires as of 3:45 p.m.
12:24 P.M. first trading day since being spun off Takeovers spark by Altria Group Inc. The stock de- EMI music label takes clined 70 cents to $30.99 in com- market upswing posite trading on the New York lock off iTunes songs Stock Exchange. ‘‘Investors are NEW YORK |Wall Street managed a moderate advance to- LONDON | Breaking from the rest of somewhat impatient with us, and day as a spate of takeover deals gave investors enough the recording industry, EMI Group frankly I share that impatience,’’ confidence to buy into the market despite a report said today it will begin selling songs Chief Executive Officer Irene Rosen- showing that U.S. manufacturing is more sluggish than online that are free of copy-protec- feld said today in an interview. expected. Investors drew support from big acquisitions tion technology through Apple Inc.’s “They are eager to see Kraft get announced before trading began, including deals to take iTunes Store. EMI Chief Executive growing again.’’ credit card transaction processor First Data Corp. and Eric Nicoli said The Beatles music 2:23 P.M. media conglomerate Tribune Co. private. catalog is excluded from the deal, Sun-Times wires but said the company was ‘‘working RadioShack sued for on it.’’ The move will allow iTunes shoppers to play their songs on mu- sloppy data handling 12225 sic players other than Apple’s iPod. FORT WORTH, TEXAS | RadioShack DOW 2:23 P.M. Corp., the third-largest U.S. elec- tronics retailer, was sued today by 9 27.95 the Texas attorney general for not A.M. Pfizer settles suit, TO shredding thousands of its cus- (.23%) fined $34.7 million 3:30 tomers’ receipts and credit applica- P.M. NEW YORK | Pfizer Inc., the world’s tions before disposing of them. Ra- largest drug company, agreed to dioShack could be fined $50,000 for 12,382.30 pay $34.7 million in fines to settle each customer record, or more than 12150 U.S. Justice Department allegations $50 million.Investigators discovered that it improperly promoted the hu- that trash left behind a Portland FOR THE YEAR | The Dow is down .65 percent. man growth hormone product Gen- store contained Social Security num- tropin. The company’s Pharmacia & bers, credit- and debit-card numbers Upjohn Co. subsidiary pleaded and the names, addresses and S&P 500 guilty to offering a kickback to a phone numbers of customers. pharmacy benefit manager to sell 12:27 P.M. more of the drug and agreed to pay 3.69 a $19.68 million fine. As part of the White House rips 63 (.26%) agreement, the Pharmacia unit will be barred from federal health care U.S. trading partners programs. WASHINGTON | —The Bush adminis- 1,420.62 1:22 P.M. tration today accused 63 trading partners, including China and the New Century files European Union, of erecting unfair FOR THE YEAR | The S&P is up .44 percent. barriers to American exports. U.S. for bankruptcy Trade Representative Susan IRVINE, CALIF. | New Century Fi- Schwab released the new report, nancial Corp., overwhelmed by which the administration is re- NASDAQ rising defaults from borrowers quired to prepare as a way of in- with poor credit records, became forming Congress of its priorities in .62 the largest subprime mortgage trying to tear down harmful trade lender ever to fail as it filed for barriers. (.03%) bankruptcy today. New Century plans to sell most of its assets 12:16 P.M. within 45 days, said the Chapter Greyhound workers 2,441.09 11 filing in federal court in Wilm- ington, Del. About 3,200 people, reject contract offer more than half the work force at DALLAS | Greyhound Lines Inc.’s U.S. FOR THE YEAR | The NASDAQ is up .29 percent. the Irvine, Calif.-based company, drivers and mechanics rejected a will be fired. New Century said it proposed contract that their union already agreed to sell its mort- said wouldn’t raise pay enough, a gage billing and collections unit potential complication in the pur- NYSE to Carrington Capital Manage- chase of the bus company’s parent ment LLC for $139 million. by FirstGroup Plc. Greyhound, the 43.73 2:11 P.M. largest U.S. intercity bus operator, said it’s considering its next move as (.47%) Kraft shares fall the current contract’s April 15 expira- tion nears and declined to discuss in 1st day since spinoff any possible service disruption. The 9,139.55 NORTHFIELD | Shares of Kraft Foods vote was 77 percent to 23 percent Inc., the world’s second-largest against the offer, the union for the foodmaker, fell 2.2 percent on their 3,300 workers said. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. DOWNLOAD| ENTERTAINMENT CS-TP.M. REMOTE CONTROL Izzard,Driver have ‘Riches’ beyond dreams ‘‘It’s a hard thing to kind of present in a very simple, one- sentence way,’’ says creator and executive producer Dmitry Lipkin of FX’s wildly unconventional drama ‘‘The Riches.’’ ‘‘Just the notion that there’s this guy who was in an WATCH LIST RV with his family and within a day or two he’s a lawyer and MUST SEE he lives in a big house. ... It’s sort of the upwardly mobile American dream magnified times a hundred,’’ Lipkin says. Debuting March 12 (10 p.m. EST), ‘‘The Riches’’ is billed ‘AMERICAN IDOL,’ 7 P.M., AND as the cable channel’s first ‘‘family’’ series. It stars British comedian Eddie Izzard as Wayne Malloy, a grafter who with ‘WEDDING BELLS,’ 8 P.M. BOTH ON FOX his recently paroled wife, Dahlia (Academy Award-nomi- The ‘‘Idol’’ women perform, which should mean a powerhouse night. nated Brit, Minnie Driver), and three kids go on the run af- They’ve been great in the past two weeks. Eight women are left, and two ter stealing money from the clan of itinerant con artists will be cut Thursday. they’d been living with in Louisiana. Then comes ‘‘Wedding Bells’’ with a deft blend of comedy and drama. While avoiding capture, they’re involved in a tragic acci- We expect that from writer-producer David E. Kelley. The ‘‘Bells’’ opener is dent and Wayne decides to assume the identity and digs — in the tradition of his ‘‘Ally McBeal’’ or ‘‘Boston Legal,’’ cleverly written and of the now-deceased Doug and Cherien Rich. neatly cast. ‘‘It’s like he’s trying to lie and cheat and steal his way to- The owners of a wedding business have divorced and their daughters have ward legitimacy,’’ says Izzard, ‘‘except the American dream taken over. is logically, legitimately going up sort of the ladder. This is a Jane Bell (Teri Polo, above) is the oldest and steadiest one. Her husband very low-rent kind of disor- (Benjamin King), dependable and dull, is chief operating officer. ganized crime way of doing Sammy (Sarah Jones) is the youngest, a beauty who seduces groomsmen. it.’’ Annie (KaDee Strickland) is in the middle. This new life often puts Then there’s a wise photographer (Michael Landes), a singer (Chris Wayne at odds with Dahlia, Williams) and a sarcastic assistant (Sherri Shepherd). These are great charac- whose secret drug addic- ters in a show that’s off to a good start. tion is exacerbated by her OTHER CHOICES new Stepford world. ‘AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL,’’ 8 p.m., CW. Last week’s opener introduced ‘‘Every day she wakes up an interesting variety of contestants then trimmed the field to 12. The problem in this dead person’s house, came when they were supposed to illustrate a concept for a photo shoot. Most which is counterintuitive to every spiritual thing she duced an interesting variety of con- schedule a lot, this show tries was raised with, a lot of su- testants then trimmed the field to Wednesdays. Tonight, a serial killer perstitious stuff,’’ says Dri- 12. The problem came when they taunts Nigel via clues ver. were supposed to illustrate a con- on the Internet. Also, The series intends to cept for a photo shoot. Most did a Jordan digs through capture ‘‘the feeling of be- so-so job; now, they’ll face a similar old files and finds The Riches show off ing an immigrant while having kind assignment. First is a fashion show botched evidence. the homestead in of a criminal aspect as well,’’ says with a prom-night theme. Then each ‘‘IN CASE OF EMER- their trailer-trash- the Russian-born, Lousiana-bred model must portray a teen cliche. GENCY,’’ 9:30 p.m., ABC. Jason made-good series on Lipkin, who patterned the show’s FX. ‘‘JERICHO,’’ 8 p.m., CBS. With (David Arquette) has been trying to gypsies after those who roam the winter settling into Kansas, some date the lovely Dr. Joanna (Lori south. people are walking south. They Loughlin, left). He finally succeeds, ‘‘They are one of the few cultures in the world that’s don’t know what to expect in the af- but he doesn’t make a great impres- fairly off the radar. They’re off the grid. They don’t pay taxes, termath of the nuclear blasts. sion. She happens to be present they’re kind of hard to track, he says. when his stuff gets repossessed. That remote feeling is evident on location in the Santa ‘‘GEORGE LOPEZ,’’ 8 p.m., ABC. Susanna Mountains where, in the episode being shot, the With his wife worrying about get- ‘‘LOST,’’ 10 p.m., ABC. Sawyer is Malloys return to their gypsy encampment. ting older, George asks their niece still trying to retrieve the things Izzard exits the communal tent in the middle of a dusty (Aimee Garcia) to tone down her people took when he was gone. clearing, where a dozen or so rusty trailer homes are sexy look. Also, Locke, Sayid and Kate exam- ine an odd vehicle and its occupant. cramped together in a circle, unhitched from their pickup ‘‘THE KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY,’’ ‘‘MEDIUM,’’ 10 p.m., NBC. This trucks. ‘‘Welcome to our gypsy village,’’ deadpans Izzard, the 8:30 p.m., ABC. Needing some quick obvious comedic foil of this drama. Having parlayed his money, the team has a fresh doesn’t happen on most shows: Alli- son wakes and finds that she’s a standup success in the U.S. and Britain (including the 1999 scheme: ‘‘Kidnap’’ the intern to get teenager. She has visions that will HBO Emmy-winning ‘‘Dress to Kill’’), Izzard has made some a ransom from his family. help the older Allison. notable dramatic appearances recently in both film (‘‘The ‘‘CROSSING JORDAN,’’ 9 p.m., Cat’s Meow’’) and on stage (‘‘A Day in the Death of Joe Egg’’). –Gannett News Service NBC. After being kicked around the Sun-Times wires MONDAY APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. DOWNLOAD| ENTERTAINMENT CS-TP.M. IN THE STARS IN THE SPOTLIGHT Your horoscope by Holiday Mathis
The Cancer moon is a mother. Call yours. If you can’t call her, you can always talk to her in the privacy of your own mental space, preferably in lullaby tones, but do what you must. Some need to be firm with their men- tal mothers, taking the parental role. ARIES (March 21-April 19) | Moody? Unmotivated? Last weekend was TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 6) | so raucous, it’s like you have a It’s a purposeful year. You feel hangover without having had the certain that you’re on the right drinks! Loud noises or sudden track, and you couldn’t be moves irritate. more right. You’re moving TAURUS (April 20-May 20) | Emo- through the summer in style — tions can stream directly from the this could cost more than heart, or be the result of a thought. you’ve spent on ‘‘presenta- The stars support you taking con- tion’’ in a while, and you enjoy scious control of your feelings. the purchases immensely. You share a psychic connection GEMINI (May 21-June 21) | You with Libra and Aquarius peo- could spend your money on a day ple. Your lucky numbers are: 2, at the spa, a trip to the mall or pay- 45, 49, 30 and 52. ing off your credit cards. Wilco can’t stop CANCER (June 22-July 22) | A little jump-start is all you need in order to get going, and yet your engine WEEK AHEAD giving away its sputters, refusing to turn over. Process all those backlogged emo- Mars is all man. He’s testos- new albums tions that are dragging you down. terone and beards and deep gruff LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) | Your feel- voices hollering at boxing NEW YORK | In what is becoming something of an unfor- ings get hurt easier than the world matches. So what’s he doing hang- tunate tradition, Wilco’s new Nonesuch album, ‘‘Sky Blue thinks. Maybe it’s because you’re ing out with an ethereal muse like Sky,’’ has leaked online, more than two months prior to always ‘‘on’’ that you seem impen- Neptune? Actually, Neptune has its May 15 release date. etrable to little annoyances. classically been associated with The group’s 2002 al- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) | You’re male characteristics — he was, af- bum ‘‘Yankee Hotel Fox- still flying high from a revelation, ter all, the Greek god of the sea. trot’’ was online for nine making it difficult to concentrate But lately he’s softened his ways months before it was on anything else. But what could and melted into the feminine side eventually released in be more important than concen- of life’s balance. This week, Mars stores, and 2004’s ‘‘A trating on what that thrills you so? and Neptune are sharing space in Ghost Is Born’’ also hit the the futuristic phantasmagoria of LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) | People Internet well before street Aquarius, making this the perfect are counting on you to show up, date. In the latter in- week to play with your internal and it’s obvious when you arrive stance, Wilco fan site opposites — like finding a spiri- that they’re looking to you for di- Justafan.org asked fans tual ambition, fighting for peace, rection. who had downloaded the engaging in a silent primal scream album early to donate SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) | It may or embarking on a journey to money to Doctors Without take a while to find out exactly nowhere. Chicago band Wilco, where you are today. Listening to above, is making a habit Borders, a fund which eventu- other people’s stories helps you out streaming their al- ally grew to $15,000. figure out where you stand. bums before release. ‘‘There’s probably some The latest, Sky Blue Sky, good argument to be made SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) | STAR’S STARS is due in May. that it will prevent a few peo- It’s easier to see the gratification ple from buying the record,’’ of indulging in a piece of cake than REESE WITHERSPOON | is not only indulging a negative emotion, but an A-list actress, but also a busi- Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy told Billboard Thursday each has a payoff. ness force to be (March 8) at the band’s Chicago loft. ‘‘But there’s also the reckoned with. idea that I believe is true for us, which is, it’s people lis- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)| You tening to our music.’’ could wait all day for someone to She was the exec- utive producer of ‘‘We feel very proud of our record and we want people get his or her act together. Do what to hear it. Ultimately, that’s the goal,’’ he continued. ‘‘I makes sense to feel complete. the mega-hit ‘‘Legally Blonde think most people will do the right thing and support us AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) | You 2: Red, White & and buy the record, even if they have downloaded it.’’ feel like a mother hen tending her Blonde.’’ Aries ‘‘Frankly, I would like to have people get a head start coop. There’s plenty to clean up people can wheel on knowing the material before we come to whatever and organize, and when a helper and deal with the town they live in,’’ bassist John Stirratt added with a chickadee goes missing, you’re left best of ’em and laugh. with dangling details. drive a hard bar- To stem the tide, the group streamed ‘‘Sky Blue Sky’’ PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) | When gain, too. Look for from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. Sunday on its official Web site. the boss leaves you incomplete in- more producing and acting combi- Wilco will get busy on the road beginning April 16 in structions, there’s nothing to do nation projects from this mother of Brisbane, Australia. but a little creative slapstick. two in the coming year. Jonathan Cohen, Billboard.com MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007 | 4 P.M. PDF EDITION | GAMES CS-TP.M. THE NEA CROSSWORD
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