Homophobic Slur Nets Blackhawks Player $5,000 Fine, Suspension: Patch PM

Apology Doesn't Mean Andrew Shaw Shouldn't Be Punished for Gay Slur

• NHL fines Shaw $5,000 and suspends him for one game. The NHL needs to show that it's not the kind of workplace that nurtures a bigoted culture where a hateful word like that is acceptable.
  With: Andrew Shaw Apologizes for Homophobic Slur

Attorney in Trouble For Threatening To Chop Up Wife With Ax

• He drove to his wife’s house with an ax but she was gone and the cops were there.

Brookfield Zoo Employee Contract Extended as Negotiations Continue

• Provisions for zoo animals are in place in the event of a strike, according to the union.

Chef Gives Chicago Pot Patients a 4/20 Treat

• Marijuana edibles debuted by chef at Mindy’s Hot Chocolate on Wednesday.

How a North Shore Private Investigator Helped Free Eddie Bolden

• Bolden was released Tuesday after 22 years in prison thanks in part to Susan Carlson, the late P.I. who worked on his case.

• ICYMI: Watch the Lost 'Garfield Goose' Intro and Clutch Cargo 'Pipeline to Danger'

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• Phone Tax Scammers Impersonate Sheriff's Officers
• Ex-Cub Milt Pappas Remembered for Baseball and Mysterious Death of Wife in Wheaton in 1980s
• Geneva Woman Accused of Poisoning Husband's Smoothie Wants Judge to Set Bail
• Get a $1 Jimmy John's Sub on Customer Appreciation Day
• Tour of Oscar Mayer's Home is Later This Month
• Mel Reynolds Locked Up on Tax Charges

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