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UNDATED (AP) — The L.A. Dodgers ended the Chicago Cubs' four-game winning streak by edging the Cubs 3-2 in the second game of a weekend series between NL division leaders.

CHICAGO (AP) -- NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin was an innocent bystander, pushing her baby in a stroller near a Chicago school where she intended to register her children when she was fatally shot Friday.

Congratulations Roger Melder of Rochester!  Roger won the "meet and greet" passes to  be up close and personal with hall of fame supergroup Chicago at this weekend's Ashley for the Arts Festical in Arcadia, Wisconsin.  Chicago hits the stage on Friday night.

UNDATED (AP) — All is right in the Chicago Cubs' universe once again after they bounced back from Friday's loss to the National League's worst team.

Chicago (Learfield Wire Services) -  Offensive lineman Willie Beavers of Western Michigan was the first player the Minnesota Vikings chose to start a very busy Saturday.

CHICAGO (AP) -- When he sentenced Dennis Hastert to more than a year in prison, the judge in the former House speaker's hush-money case delivered the verbal equivalent of a public flogging.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that the Timberwolves have agreed to terms with former Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau to be the team's coach and president of basketball operations.

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — A hockey player from Minnesota who suffered a spinal cord injury in a game has left an Illinois hospital to continue his rehabilitation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AP) — A 20-year-old hockey player who suffered a spinal cord injury during a game last month in Illinois is expected to return home to Minnesota in the next few weeks.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday he would nominate appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, urging Republicans to approve a long-time jurist and former prosecutor known as "one of America's sharpest legal minds."

CHICAGO (AP) — Crews were working to clear roads Thursday after dozens of cars and trucks were stranded overnight on a snowed-in roadway south of Chicago along the Illinois-Indiana state line.

LAKE FORREST, Ill. (AP) — Officials say no one was injured when a Minneapolis-bound Megabus carrying dozens of passengers caught fire outside of Chicago.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Wiggins scored six of his 21 points in the final 90 seconds to help the Minnesota Timberwolves surge past the Chicago Bulls in a 112-105 victory on Saturday night.

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal civil trial pitting two panhandlers against one of the nation's largest sheriff's departments got underway Monday, in a case stemming from a lawsuit that alleges the men were improperly stopped from begging at a popular Chicago square.