The News-Hound
Tying the knot
While many folks are seething over the California state Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn the ban on gay marriages, there's others, besides the happy same-sex couples, who have reason to celebrate --- the wedding industry.
• Blog: The News-Hound

SEARCH CHICAGO - AUTOS
M3 Convertible moves
The 2008 BMW M3 Convertible boasts a mean physique. At first glance you might be tempted to think it’s just another convertible out for a joy ride. But the bulging hood and quad exhausts tell a different story.
• BMW M3 Convertible
• 2009 Hyundai Sonata
• Photos: 2009 Hyundai Genesis
• Photos: 2008 BMW 1-Series
• Photos: 30 mpg cars
• Video: Bentley Continental GT
• Calculate: Your cost for gas

News-Sun video
Trail Marker Trees
Once upon a time Native Americans in the Great Lakes region used trees as navigating tools. These Trail Marker Trees once numbered in the hundreds, but now only a few remain with their proponents closely guarding their locations to ensure their safety. Antioch artist Dennis Downes has dedicated himself to these icons.

• News-Sun Video: Trail Marker Trees
• News-Sun video: Honor Flight: Fred Appelman
• News-Sun Video: Honor Flight: Peter Urbane
• News-Sun video: Fox River Springs floods
• News-Sun slideshow: 24 hours in Las Vegas
• News-Sun video: Kitty Shower
• News-Sun slideshow: Lakes Region Historical Society
• News-Sun video: Zion-Benton Bananas
• News-Sun video: Antioch wastewater treatment plant
• News-Sun video: St. Raphael chickens

• Aldermen fume over weak eyesore code
• Food stamps available for county flood victims
• Gurnee joins mutual flood-control effort
• High alcohol level in man killed in Route 41 crash
• Child rapist maintains innocence as he is sentenced
• Visitors bureau promotes 'stay-cations'
• County Board hails retiring health chief
• Cooke Magnet principal named
• Home heating costs will hurt this winter
• YCC will host Des Plaines River Cleanup Thursday
• Community digest
• Canoe canoe?
• Correction
• Calls for warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics
• No bond for man who bought deadly puffer fish toxin
• 'Right to Live' demonstration at fatal crash site
• Stabbing victim had just filed for divorce
• Murder suspect 'walking' to Waukegan
Retail center planned for Antioch Ace site 'Right to Live' demonstration at fatal crash site Lives of ministry lead to ordination Park Notes Greenberg campaign worker, 71, dies during parade 'Sharecropper's Daughter' an 'Amen' Lindenhurst's special census targets newer areas of village Police Blotter Three charged after Lake Villa gun threat

Photos: Skateboarding competition

• North Chicago youngsters can attend free camp
• Firecracker 4 in Highland Park draws field of 156
• Soto, Fontenot homers help Dempster get win No. 10
• Sabathia gets win in debut
• Cubs land Harden from A's
• Konerko back from DL
• Michael Vick files for bankruptcy protection
• YOUTH TRACK Huge meet starts Thursday in North Chicago
• YOUTH SWIMMING Splitting squad doesn't slow Blue Devil club
• Wood's collapse has no lasting effect
Dreaming big Mustangs ready to state their case A summer opportunity Walther's Easter turns in a Classic effort Developing a project Volleyball dreams Lockport struggles at Morris

Where's Charlie? Pigging out at the barbecue
Crashing a family's Fourth of July barbecue could have been a hugely awkward experience, but not when your host is one of 12 children. When I arrived at Mike Fassbinder's family pig roast on Saturday, I was relieved to see a big crowd gathered on the lawn overlooking the sunset on Fox Lake. But what seemed large to me didn't to the family.



• Meet Moses
• Understanding reverse mortgages
• Senior Centers

Retail center planned for Antioch Ace site
The corner of routes 59 and 173 will get a major facelift after the Village Board on Monday approved Centrum Antioch LLC's proposal to build a new retail center on the current site of Ace Hardware. Preliminary drawings show a drug store, confirmed by the developer as a CVS pharmacy, as the anchor store.



• Cardinal Health cutting 600 jobs
• Consumers Credit Union breaks ground in Volo
• FDA approves Abbott's next generation stent

M3 Convertible moves The cost of driving Toyota plans solar-powered AC on next Prius New exhibit challenges our ideas about 'green' Delphiniums are needy but lovely It's a tough season for FSBO sellers

'Hellboy II' director del Toro loves his demons
The worst monsters in your most terrifying dreams probably would run and hide from the creatures Guillermo del Toro puts on a movie screen. Del Toro, creator of the visionary fairy tale "Pan's Labyrinth," offers a universe of otherworldly creations in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," the follow-up to his 2004 adventure about a superhero who's a demon from below.



• A-Rod's wife alleges infidelity in divorce papers
• Koppel series shows changes in China
• Just how close 'friends' are Madonna and A-Rod?

Would you support a minor league baseball team in Waukegan?

Yes
No