Sun-Times Media Group Inc. became the second major Chicago newspaper publisher to seek bankruptcy protection as plunging advertising revenue makes debt payments more difficult.

The company, the owner of the namesake newspaper, and its principal operating subsidiary, the Sun-Times News Group, will continue to run their newspapers and online sites while they focus on further improving cost structure and stabilizing operations, the publisher said in a statement today.

Chicago Tribune owner Tribune Co. and Philadelphia Newspapers LLC, which runs the Philadelphia Inquirer, are among four other newspaper publishers to file for bankruptcy since December. Chicago is the third-largest U.S. city.

The Death Of Latin – CBS News — I’m now convinced there is something in the water over there.

A couple of thousand years ago we British were invaded by some extremely civilized conquerors – the Romans. They built our roads, our cities – like Londinium, and left us – after several hundred years – with a rich sense of culture and a great deal of their own language. In fact using Latin phrases is still the, er, ‘status quo’. There are hundreds of, er, ‘bona fide’ English sayings which owe everything to Julius Caesar and his legions.

But now the use of Latin is to be banned – on the orders of England’s most interfering busybodies, our local town councils. And that’s an irony because the very word council was first coined by the Romans.

I have, er, ‘prima facie’ evidence. Bournemouth, a sleepy place on the English south coast, has just issued orders to stop all staff using any popular Latin. So now they are forced to say ‘impromptu’, when they actually mean ‘ad lib’, and it’s a permanent ban – not just ‘pro tem’. Now, the, er, ‘quid pro quo’ for this draconian new rule is supposed to be that everyone will be able to understand everbody else without any risk of confusion in future.

But lovers of Latin regard the ruling as the linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing. It is they say, stark staring bonkers, etcetera, etcetera — except they mustn’t ever say ‘etcetera’ because that particular phrase actually started life in ancient Rome.

Found by Mad Dog Mike.

ShamWow Guy and the hooker: There’s a mess to mop up — This stuff just writes itself! At least she didn’t get far enough along to bite off something else!!

Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub, according to the cop report. He told cops he paid Harris about $1,000 in cash after she “propositioned him for straight sex.”

Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly “bit his tongue and would not let go.”

So Shlomi punched her several times until she released his tongue. Harris wound up with facial fractures and lacerations.

After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse.

“Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons,” police reported