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MONDAY,ARPIL 2, 2007

CHICAGO’S POLICE SUPT. RESIGNSChicago’s police superintendent announced Monday he wasretiring as his department deals with two highly publicizedvideotaped beatings involving off-duty police officers.

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BY ANDREW HERRMANN, KATE GROSSMAN and FRAN SPIELMAN Staff ReportersChicago Police Supt. Philip J. Cline resigned today in

the aftermath of two highly publicized instances of al-leged police misconduct. The resignation by Cline —who has been on the force for 37 years and Chicago’s topcop since 2003 — followed a closed-door meeting withMayor Daley, the first between the superintendent andhis boss since the incidents occurred.

During a short City Hall news conference, Daley de-nied he requested the superintendent’s resignation. Infact, he said Cline had broached the subject of retire-ment a year ago, only to be encouraged by the mayor toremain on the job until after the February election.

But the mayor went on to suggest otherwise by sayingit was “time for a change,” and that Cline’s decision hadbeen “very emotional, to be very frank.”

“In submitting his resig-nation, he took responsi-bility for the incidents ofpolice misconduct thathave occurred recently andmade it clear to me — as hedid to the people of Chi-cago last week — that heshould have acted immedi-ately to discipline officersand that no special treat-ment should be given toprotect them,” Daley said.

“He understands howimportant it is that thepeople of our city trust thepolice to protect and de-fend them and that mis-conduct needs to be takenseriously and disciplined

when it occurs. And he ac-knowledged that these inci-dents tarnish the entire de-

partment and undermine the painstaking efforts he’smade to deepen the relationship between Chicago’s po-lice officers and the people of our city.”

Cline, 57, said he will stay on while a new superin-tendent is chosen. He did not take questions from re-porters during a brief news conference at police head-quarters at 35th and Michigan.But in an apparentreference to the recent embarrassments, he said: “Leav-ing in these times of challenge makes my decision evenmore difficult. So I’ve agreed to stay while the PoliceBoard conducts a search for my successor.’’

LOCAL WIREBreaking news from the Chicago region as of 3:45 p.m.

Mayor Daley discussesPolice Supt. Phil J. Cline’sresignation Monday.

Chicago top copCline resigns

11:17 A.M..

Tribune accepts Zell’s$8.2 bil. buyout offer

CHICAGO | Tribune Co. has ac-cepted a buyout offer from real es-tate investor Sam Zell in a deal val-ued at about $8.2 billion and plansto sell the Chicago Cubs at the endof this season, the media companysaid Monday. The owner of the Chi-cago Tribune, Los Angeles Times,and various other newspapers andTV stations spent six months solicit-ing bids and reviewing offers. Trib-une had set a self-imposed March31 deadline to announce a spin-off,buyout or reorganization. In addi-tion to the Zell bid, the Tribune con-sidered a competing offer from LosAngeles billionaires Eli Broad andRon Burkle. The company has beenunder pressure from key sharehold-ers to boost its stock price and,along with others in the newspaperindustry, has been losing readersand advertisers to the Internet.Tribune is the nation’s secondbiggest newspaper publisher afterGannett Co.

2:58 P.M.

Police probe theft fromRiver North gallery

CHICAGO | Police were investi-gating the burglary of an art galleryafter someone broke in and stoleseveral pieces of art Thursdaymorning in the River North area. At6:28 a.m., an unknown person orpersons made forcible entry to agallery on the 200 block of WestHuron Street and made off with“multiple sculptures.”

2:57 P.M.

Scalia daughter won’tfight driving penalty

WHEATON | The daughter of U.S.Supreme Court Justice AntoninScalia won’t fight an automatic six-month suspension of her driver’s li-cense after being arrested for driv-ing under the influence and childendangerment, her attorneys said.

3:17 P.M.

Death of girl, 8,ruled an accident

SCHAUMBURG | A Thursday au-topsy has ruled that the death of an8-year-old girl found unresponsivenext to a bathtub Tuesday night in

Schaumburg was an accident. Ron-nice Linear, 8, of 2253 PennviewLane in Schaumburg, died of hy-poxic encephalopathy, drowningand a seizure disorder, according toa report from the Cook County Med-ical Examiner’s office. The Thursdayautopsy ruled her death to be anaccident.

3:19 P.M.

Shot fired during robbery, no one hurt

BOLINGBROOK | A shot wasfired but no one was injured duringa robbery Thursday afternoon at aPay Day Loan Store in southwestsuburban Bolingbrook. Just after 1p.m. Thursday, Bolingbrook policeresponded to the Pay Day LoanStore at 348 Commons Dr., for a callfrom an employee that the storehad just been robbed and the of-fender had fired a gun, according toa release from police. Witnessestold police that the man enteredthrough the front door with a hand-gun and demanded money fromcash drawers.

2:15 P.M.

Threat of falling glasscloses Monroe St.

CHICAGO | Monroe Street wasopened back up Thursday after-noon after a window broke andglass was reportedly hanging fromthe old Carson Pirie Scott buildingin the Loop. Monroe Street, whichhad been closed from Wabash toState due to the unsafe condition,was opened back up at 1:11 p.m.,according to police News Affairs Of-ficer John Henry. Police received noreports of injuries, he said. Policereceived a call of glass hangingfrom the fifth floor of the northfaçade of the building at 36 S.Wabash Ave. at 11:10 a.m.

21:57 P.M.

Hearing delayed forBears’ Tank

CHICAGO | A parole violationhearing for Chicago Bears linemanTank Johnson has been delayed un-til 2 p.m. Bears Coach Lovie Smitharrived with Johnson at the court-house for the sentencing hearingfor violating probation on a 2005weapons conviction, the Sun-Timesis reporting. Johnson, 25, could besentenced to up to a year in prisonby Cook County Judge John Moran.

METRO IN DEPTH

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By JOHN McCARTHYAssociated Press Writer

HILLIARD, Ohio (AP) — Police surrounded a housewhere a prison inmate was believed to have holed upMonday after overpowering an armed guard in a hospitaland fleeing with a weapon and a guard’s uniform.

Billy Jack Fitzmorris, 34, was believed to have escapedon foot from St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown,according to Corrections Corporation of America. Thecompany runs the Northeast Ohio Correction Center inYoungstown, where Fitzmorris had been held since Feb-ruary for the U.S. Marshals Service.

Two nurses and several prison workers were brieflyheld in a hospital room during the escape, authoritiessaid.

A few hours later, police surrounded a house inHilliard, a Columbus sub-urb about 150 miles south-west of Youngstown, whereFitzmorris was believed tobe hiding, said David Silerof the Marshals Service’sfugitive task force. It wasnot clear how Fitzmorriswas believed to have trav-eled that far, and Siler hadno further details.

Television footageshowed a man breakinginto the house after aban-doning a car nearby. Awoman later climbed out asecond story window anddropped to the ground aspolice arrived.

Police at the house werenot providing further in-formation and it was un-clear whether Fitzmorris

was still in the house.Corrections Corporation

spokeswoman Louise Grant said Fitzmorris has beenawaiting sentencing but she did not know what chargewas involved.

The company, based in Nashville, Tenn., gave no de-tails on why he was taken to the hospital Saturday or howhe overpowered the guard. He had been under observa-tion in his room Monday morning when the confronta-tion occurred, the company said.

‘‘It’s been a scary day for us here,’’ hospital spokes-woman Tina Creighton told CNN.

She said she couldn’t discuss why the inmate was atthe hospital beyond saying that he was there for treat-ment.

‘‘He overcame the guard; there was a corrections guardfrom the prison. He took the uniform and the weaponand made his escape,’’ Creighton said.

Billy Jack Fitzmorris

Prison inmateescapes fromhospital in Ohio

NATION IN DEPTH

CALIFORNIA, 2:12 P.M.

Former Reagan aideStockman charged

WASHINGTON | David Stockman,the former budget director in theReagan White House, was chargedin an indictment unsealed Mondaywith overseeing a sweeping fraud ata troubled auto parts supplier thathe led before the company collapsedinto bankruptcy.

NEW YORK, , 2:19 P.M.

Hundreds of mournersfor Bronx fire victims

NEW YORK | Hundreds of mourn-ers prayed over small, simple cas-kets at a tear-filled funeral Mondayfor the nine children and a womankilled when a fire raced throughtheir extended family’s home in theBronx. The children’s fathers, onewho lost his wife and all his chil-dren, joined Muslim prayers for thedead during a brief service. One tinycoffin held the bodies of his 7-month-old twins, Sise and HarounaSoumare.

TEXAS, 2:14 P.M.

Former President Bushreleased after collapse

HOUSTON | Former PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush was treated at aCalifornia hospital for dehydrationand released Monday after collaps-ing during a golf outing in PalmSprings.Jean Becker, Bush’s chief ofstaff, told The Associated Press thatBush fainted while playing golf withfriends Sunday in 94-degree heat.

TEXAS, 1:51 P.M.

Infant kidnap suspectfaces extradition

LUBBOCK | .A woman arrested inNew Mexico on suspicion of snatch-ing a newborn from a Texas hospitalwaived extradition Monday, whilethe tiny girl was back in hermother’s arms. ‘‘We’re just happy tohave her back,’’ the baby’s grandfa-ther, Darrell Darthard, said at a briefhospital news conference, thankingpolice and supporters while hermother quietly cradled the infant ina purple blanket. Police found 4-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawoduon Sunday in Clovis, N.M., a day af-ter she was taken from Lubbock’sCovenant Lakeside Hospital.

WASHINGTON, 2:09 P.M.

Cheney blasts DemsWASHINGTON | .Vice President

Dick Cheney MONDAY blasted theDemocrat-controlled Congress fortrying to manage the U.S. Iraq strat-egy, saying its wartime role is ‘‘lim-ited’’ by law and urging lawmakersnot to shortchange funding fortroops.

NEW MEXICO, 1:22 P.M.

N.M. lawmakers to require cancer vacine

ALBUQUERQUE | New Mexico ison the verge of becoming the lateststate to require sixth-grade girls tobe vaccinated against a sexuallytransmitted virus that can cause cer-vical cancer, a spokesman for thegovernor said Monday. The stateHouse approved the bill Sunday,and Gov. Bill Richardson will sign itonce he receives the legislation,spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said.

PENNSYLVANIA, 12:59 P.M.

Hazelton, Pa., defendsimmigration crackdown

SCRANTON | IThere is no evi-dence to back up the Hazletonmayor’s claim that illegal immi-grants are destroying the quality oflife in his city, an ACLU attorney tolda judge Monday at the start of thefirst federal trial on local efforts tocurb illegal immigration. Last sum-mer, Hazleton officials passed thecity’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act,imposing fines on landlords whorent to illegal immigrants and deny-ing business permits to companiesthat employ them.

MASSACHUSETTS, 2:50 P.M.

Mass. agency wantsdetainees released

BOSTON | I The head of Massa-chusetts’ social services on Mondaycalled for the release of 20 factoryworkers arrested in an immigrationraid, saying many have childrenwith no one else to care for them.They were among the 361 peopletaken in to custody following theraid March 6 at a Michael BiancoInc. factory. They were among the361 people taken in to custody fol-lowing the raid March 6 at aMichael Bianco Inc. factory.Theywere among the 361.

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By YAHYA BARZANJIAssociated Press Writer

KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) — A suicide truck bomber targeteda police station in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk onMonday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens,including many children from a nearby school, policesaid.

Video by an Associated Press cameraman showed atleast four wounded U.S. soldiers and one badly damagedAmerican Humvee. The soldiers were being treated byArmy medics, with one seated while having gauze band-ages wound around his bloodied head.

Another soldier, whose nose was bleeding, was stand-ing and waving directions to others. A third soldier wascarried away on a stretcher and the fourth was beingtreated on the ground.

The attacker rammedthe truck into the concreteblast barriers protectingthe back of the compoundat about 11:30 a.m., deto-nating his explosives,which were hidden underbags of flour, policespokesman Brig. Gen.Sarhat Qadir said.

The Rahim Awa policecompound is in a predom-inantly Kurdish neighbor-hood in a northern part ofthe city, and other officialssaid U.S. troops had beenvisiting an Iraqi criminalinvestigations unit therewhen the blast occurred.The U.S. command inBaghdad said it was look-

ing into the report.Bombings elsewhere in Iraq

killed at least 11 people andwounded more than 40.

A British soldier also was killedin southern Iraq, British military

spokeswoman Katie Brown said, the second Britishdeath in as many days. The death raised to 136 the num-ber of British forces to die in Iraq since the March 2003invasion.

The violence came a day after Sen. John McCain led aRepublican congressional delegation on a heavilyguarded tour of a central Baghdad market and declaredthat a nearly 7-week-old security crackdown to pacifythe capital is working.

McCain, a presidential hopeful who was a prisoner ofwar in Vietnam, acknowledged a difficult task lies aheadin Iraq, but criticized the media for not giving Americansenough information about the recent drop in execution-style sectarian killings, the establishment of securityposts throughout the city.

A US Army Apachehelicopter flies overthe site of an explo-sion in BaghdadMonday.

Suicide truck bomb kills 13in Kirkuk

WORLD IN DEPTH

IRAN, 3:02 P.M.

Iran questioningBritish captives

TEHRAN | Iran said Monday itwas questioning 15 British sailorsand marines to determine if their al-leged entry into Iranian waters was‘‘intentional or unintentional’’ be-fore deciding what to do with them— the first sign it could be seeking away out of the standoff.

SWITZERLAND, 2:34 P.M.

Human rights groupcalls for Darfur action

GENEVA | A U.N. human rightsteam criticized the internationalcommunity Monday for failing tohalt atrocities in Darfur, saying in asharply worded report that theUnited Nations must act now to pro-tect civilians from a violence cam-paign orchestrated by Sudan’s gov-ernment.

IRAQ, 2 P.M.

GIs to search forcar bomb factories

BAGHDAD | With violence downin Baghdad, U.S. troops will fan outinto communities on the rim of thecapital to shut down car bomb fac-tories, which remain a threat de-spite a recent drop in execution-style killings in the city, the U.S.military said Monday. At least 55people have been killed by bombsin Baghdad over the last three days.

MOROCCO, 1:49 P.M.

Man blows self up in Internet cafe

CASABLANCA | A man who wasprevented from looking at terrorWeb sites by the owners of an Inter-net cafe blew himself up with explo-sives hidden on his body, a spokes-man for the Interior Ministry saidMonday. It was possible that theman was transporting explosivesthat went off at an unplanned mo-ment, said ministry spokesman Ab-derrahman Achour..

AFGHANISTAN, 1:31 P.M.

Roadside bomb kills 9KABUL | A roadside bomb target-

ing a police convoy killed nine offi-cers, including a local commander,and left one critically woundedMonday in western Afghanistan, of-

ficials said. Separately, the Afghanparliamentary speaker said the Tal-iban had threatened to kill an Ital-ian journalist abducted in the coun-try’s lawless south unless theItalian government reviewed its pol-icy toward Afghanistan.

ITALY, 12:57 P.M.

Lawmaker chains selfat museum in protest

FLORENCE | An Italian senatorchained himself to a column nearthe gates of the Uffizi museum Mon-day to protest the loan of Leonardoda Vinci’s ‘‘Annunciation’’ for ashow at Japan’s National Museumin Tokyo. The ‘‘Annunciation’’ is oneof Leonardo’s early works, paintedbetween 1472-1475 when the mas-ter was in his early 20s.

BELGIUM, 12:41 P.M.

U.N. report revealsplan for Kosovo

BRUSSELS | The European Unionis getting ready to enforce a U.N.plan that gives supervised state-hood to Kosovo, even though Serbiahas rejected giving so much auton-omy to its breakaway province. Ac-cording to a confidential report —made available Monday to The As-sociated Press — a 72-member Eu-ropean Union delegation with 200local support staff would have amandate to oversee implementa-tion of the U.N. plan.

RUSSIA, 3:22 P.M.

New opposition partystill supports Putin

MOSCOW | A new party that pro-motes itself as an opposition groupbut supports Vladimir Putin took aprominent place on Russia’s politi-cal stage Monday after regionalelections that further consolidatedthe president’s hold on power.

BRITAIN, P.M.

Al Gore TVgoes to Britain

LONDON | Former Vice PresidentAl Gore brought his interactive Cur-rent TV channel to Britain on Mon-day, arguing that democracy willhelp save television in the Internetage — and that television couldhelp save democracy. Current TVnow reaches 40 million homes inthe United States.

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BASKETBALL

Jackson, Williams lead Hall of Fame classATLANTA | Phil Jackson, who haswon NBA titles in two cities, andRoy Williams, who has taken twoschools to NCAA championshipgames, topped a class of seven se-lected Monday to enter the Basket-ball Hall of Fame in September.

Also selected were the 1966 NCAAchampion Texas Western team, four-time WNBA championship coach VanChancellor, former NBA refereeMendy Rudolph and internationalcoaches Fedro Ferrandiz of Spain andMirko Novosel of Yugoslavia.

Among the notable finalists whodid not receive the required 18votes from 24 members of the hon-ors committee were ESPN broad-caster Dick Vitale and longtime col-lege coach Eddie Sutton.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Arkansas seems closeto naming Altman FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. | The Universityof Arkansas called a news confer-ence Monday to name a new bas-ketball coach and all signs pointedto Creighton’s Dana Altman, whowas seen at a Nebraska airport get-ting off a plane registered toArkansas’ athletic boosters’ group.

Arkansas officials said they didnot have permission to confirm thatAltman would replace Stan Heath,who was fired last week after failingto lead the Razorbacks to a singleNCAA tournament victory in five yearsat the school. Altman has a 2-7 recordin the NCAA with the Blue Jays.

PRO FOOTBALL

NFL calls off China exhibition gameNEW YORK | The exhibition gamescheduled for China in August wascanceled Monday by the NFL, whichsaid it wanted to concentrate its‘‘global resources’’ on next October’sregular-season game in London.

NBA

Heat’s Wade returns to practiceMIAMI | Dwyane Wade practicedwith the Miami Heat on Monday, thefirst time he’d taken part in a fullworkout since dislocating his leftshoulder nearly six weeks ago.

Wade was on the floor for some5-on-5 and other drills for about 90minutes, then planned to do aboutanother 90 minutes of weightliftingand physical therapy afterward.

Wade was averaging 28.8 pointswhen he was hurt in a collision withHouston’s Shane Battier on Feb. 21.

MISCELLANEOUS

Toledo unsure if moreplayers will be chargedTOLEDO, Ohio | Athletic officials atthe University of Toledo said Mondaythey don’t know if any more playerswill be charged in what the FBI sayswas a point-shaving scheme.

Federal authorities arrested run-ning back Harvey ‘‘Scooter’’ Mc-Dougle Jr. on Friday, charging himwith participating in a bribery schemeto influence sporting contests.

McDougle, 22, and a senior fromEast Cleveland, recruited Toledofootball and basketball players toparticipate in the scheme orches-trated by a Michigan man identifiedonly as ‘‘Gary,’’ according to a crim-inal complaint filed in U.S. DistrictCourt.

Athletic Director Mike O’Briensaid he has no plans to interviewany other athletes and that federalauthorities are taking the lead onthe investigation.

HOCKEY

Devils fire Julien, Lamoriello takes overEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. | ClaudeJulien was fired as New Jersey Dev-ils coach Monday and replaced bygeneral manager Lou Lamoriellowith less than a week to go in theregular season.

The firing comes after the Devilswon four of their last five games. Theteam is in first place in the AtlanticDivision with three games to go.

BASEBALL

MLB sets spring attendance recordNEW YORK | Major League Baseballdrew a record 3,421,055 fans tospring training games in 2007, sur-passing the previous high of3,405,043 set in 2005.

Grapefruit League games inFlorida established a new atten-dance record for the second consecu-tive year, drawing 1,707,750 fans,the league said Monday. That sur-passed last year’s total of 1,604,393.

GOING DEEPTribune plansto sell Cubs after ’07 seasonTribune Co. said it plans to sell the Chicago Cubs at theend of the 2007 baseball season, putting one of its mostvaluable assets on the block as it simultaneously an-nounced Monday that real estate magnate Sam Zell wasacquiring the media conglomerate.

Analysts have estimated that the Cubs could fetch$600 million or more. Tribune bought the team in 1981for $20.5 million.

‘‘The Cubs have been an important part of Tribune formore than 25 years and are one of the most storied fran-chises in all of sports,’’ said Dennis FitzSimons, Tribune

chairman, presidentand chief executive of-ficer. ‘‘In our last sea-son of ownership, theteam has one mission,and that is to win forour great fans.’’

Tribune said thecompany’s 25 per-cent interest inComcast Sport-sNetChicago wouldbe part of the salepackage.

The Cubs’strength as a sportsfranchise — and thelure of potentiallysteering them totheir first cham-pionship since 1908— has attracted theinterest of many po-tential buyers. Bil-lionaire entrepre-neur Mark Cuban,

actor Bill Murray and columnist George Will are amongthose rumored to have interest, along with numerousChicago business figures.

Jerry Colangelo, chairman of the NBA’s Phoenix Sunsand former owner of both the Suns and baseball’s Ari-zona Diamondbacks, told The Associated Press in No-vember that he would have ‘‘great interest’’ in buying hishometown baseball franchise if it became available andhad already held preliminary discussions with otherswho might join him in a bid.

Speculation that the struggling Tribune Co. might sellthe Cubs ramped up last fall when it put itself up for pos-sible sale, under pressure from disgruntled sharehold-ers. It intensified with the club’s offseason spendingspree, including signing outfielder Alfonso Soriano to aneight-year contract for $136 million — the fifth-richestcontract in major league history.

Tribune had said for months that it would focus firston a sale of the entire company before considering sell-ing individual pieces, which also include 23 television sta-tions and 11 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune,Los Angeles Times, Newsday and eight other dailies.

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ON AND OFF THE FIELDSports news in brief from tennis courts to criminal courts

Tribune Co. announced plans to sellthe Cubs after the 2007 season. –AP

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12:24 P.M.

EMI music label takeslock off iTunes songsLONDON | Breaking from the rest ofthe recording industry, EMI Groupsaid today it will begin selling songsonline that are free of copy-protec-tion technology through Apple Inc.’siTunes Store. EMI Chief ExecutiveEric Nicoli said The Beatles musiccatalog is excluded from the deal,but said the company was ‘‘workingon it.’’ The move will allow iTunesshoppers to play their songs on mu-sic players other than Apple’s iPod.

2:23 P.M.

Pfizer settles suit,fined $34.7 millionNEW YORK | Pfizer Inc., the world’slargest drug company, agreed topay $34.7 million in fines to settleU.S. Justice Department allegationsthat it improperly promoted the hu-man growth hormone product Gen-tropin. The company’s Pharmacia &Upjohn Co. subsidiary pleadedguilty to offering a kickback to apharmacy benefit manager to sellmore of the drug and agreed to paya $19.68 million fine. As part of theagreement, the Pharmacia unit willbe barred from federal health careprograms.

1:22 P.M.

New Century files for bankruptcyIRVINE, CALIF. | New Century Fi-nancial Corp., overwhelmed byrising defaults from borrowerswith poor credit records, becamethe largest subprime mortgagelender ever to fail as it filed forbankruptcy today. New Centuryplans to sell most of its assetswithin 45 days, said the Chapter11 filing in federal court in Wilm-ington, Del. About 3,200 people,more than half the work force atthe Irvine, Calif.-based company,will be fired. New Century said italready agreed to sell its mort-gage billing and collections unitto Carrington Capital Manage-ment LLC for $139 million.

2:11 P.M.

Kraft shares fallin 1st day since spinoffNORTHFIELD | Shares of Kraft FoodsInc., the world’s second-largestfoodmaker, fell 2.2 percent on their

first trading day since being spun offby Altria Group Inc. The stock de-clined 70 cents to $30.99 in com-posite trading on the New YorkStock Exchange. ‘‘Investors aresomewhat impatient with us, andfrankly I share that impatience,’’Chief Executive Officer Irene Rosen-feld said today in an interview.“They are eager to see Kraft getgrowing again.’’

2:23 P.M.

RadioShack sued forsloppy data handlingFORT WORTH, TEXAS | RadioShackCorp., the third-largest U.S. elec-tronics retailer, was sued today bythe Texas attorney general for notshredding thousands of its cus-tomers’ receipts and credit applica-tions before disposing of them. Ra-dioShack could be fined $50,000 foreach customer record, or more than$50 million.Investigators discoveredthat trash left behind a Portlandstore contained Social Security num-bers, credit- and debit-card numbersand the names, addresses andphone numbers of customers.

12:27 P.M.

White House rips 63 U.S. trading partnersWASHINGTON | —The Bush adminis-tration today accused 63 tradingpartners, including China and theEuropean Union, of erecting unfairbarriers to American exports. U.S.Trade Representative SusanSchwab released the new report,which the administration is re-quired to prepare as a way of in-forming Congress of its priorities intrying to tear down harmful tradebarriers.

12:16 P.M.

Greyhound workersreject contract offerDALLAS | Greyhound Lines Inc.’s U.S.drivers and mechanics rejected aproposed contract that their unionsaid wouldn’t raise pay enough, apotential complication in the pur-chase of the bus company’s parentby FirstGroup Plc. Greyhound, thelargest U.S. intercity bus operator,said it’s considering its next move asthe current contract’s April 15 expira-tion nears and declined to discussany possible service disruption. Thevote was 77 percent to 23 percentagainst the offer, the union for the3,300 workers said.

THE TICKERBreaking business news from the wires as of 3:45 p.m.

12,382.30

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FOR THE YEAR | The Dow is down .65 percent.

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FOR THE YEAR | The S&P is up .44 percent.

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NASDAQ.62

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FOR THE YEAR | The NASDAQ is up .29 percent.

9,139.55

NYSE43.73(.47%)

CLOSING BELLTakeovers sparkmarket upswingNEW YORK |Wall Street managed a moderate advance to-day as a spate of takeover deals gave investors enoughconfidence to buy into the market despite a reportshowing that U.S. manufacturing is more sluggish thanexpected. Investors drew support from big acquisitionsannounced before trading began, including deals to takecredit card transaction processor First Data Corp. andmedia conglomerate Tribune Co. private.

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REMOTE CONTROLIzzard,Driverhave ‘Riches’beyond dreams

‘‘It’s a hard thing to kind of present in a very simple, one-sentence way,’’ says creator and executive producerDmitry Lipkin of FX’s wildly unconventional drama ‘‘TheRiches.’’ ‘‘Just the notion that there’s this guy who was in anRV with his family and within a day or two he’s a lawyer andhe lives in a big house. ... It’s sort of the upwardly mobileAmerican dream magnified times a hundred,’’ Lipkin says.

Debuting March 12 (10 p.m. EST), ‘‘The Riches’’ is billedas the cable channel’s first ‘‘family’’ series. It stars Britishcomedian Eddie Izzard as Wayne Malloy, a grafter who withhis recently paroled wife, Dahlia (Academy Award-nomi-nated Brit, Minnie Driver), and three kids go on the run af-ter stealing money from the clan of itinerant con artiststhey’d been living with in Louisiana.

While avoiding capture, they’re involved in a tragic acci-dent and Wayne decides to assume the identity and digs —of the now-deceased Doug and Cherien Rich.

‘‘It’s like he’s trying to lie and cheat and steal his way to-ward legitimacy,’’ says Izzard, ‘‘except the American dreamis logically, legitimately going up sort of the ladder. This is a

very low-rent kind of disor-ganized crime way of doingit.’’

This new life often putsWayne at odds with Dahlia,whose secret drug addic-tion is exacerbated by hernew Stepford world.

‘‘Every day she wakes upin this dead person’s house,which is counterintuitiveto every spiritual thing shewas raised with, a lot of su-perstitious stuff,’’ says Dri-ver.

The series intends tocapture ‘‘the feeling of be-

ing an immigrant while having kindof a criminal aspect as well,’’ saysthe Russian-born, Lousiana-bredLipkin, who patterned the show’sgypsies after those who roam thesouth.

‘‘They are one of the few cultures in the world that’sfairly off the radar. They’re off the grid. They don’t pay taxes,they’re kind of hard to track, he says.

That remote feeling is evident on location in the SantaSusanna Mountains where, in the episode being shot, theMalloys return to their gypsy encampment.

Izzard exits the communal tent in the middle of a dustyclearing, where a dozen or so rusty trailer homes arecramped together in a circle, unhitched from their pickuptrucks. ‘‘Welcome to our gypsy village,’’ deadpans Izzard, theobvious comedic foil of this drama. Having parlayed hisstandup success in the U.S. and Britain (including the 1999HBO Emmy-winning ‘‘Dress to Kill’’), Izzard has made somenotable dramatic appearances recently in both film (‘‘TheCat’s Meow’’) and on stage (‘‘A Day in the Death of Joe Egg’’).

Sun-Times wires

The Riches show offthe homestead intheir trailer-trash-made-good series onFX.

duced an interesting variety of con-testants then trimmed the field to12. The problem came when theywere supposed to illustrate a con-cept for a photo shoot. Most did aso-so job; now, they’ll face a similarassignment. First is a fashion showwith a prom-night theme. Then eachmodel must portray a teen cliche.

‘‘JERICHO,’’ 8 p.m., CBS. Withwinter settling into Kansas, somepeople are walking south. Theydon’t know what to expect in the af-termath of the nuclear blasts.

‘‘GEORGE LOPEZ,’’ 8 p.m., ABC.With his wife worrying about get-ting older, George asks their niece(Aimee Garcia) to tone down hersexy look.

‘‘THE KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY,’’8:30 p.m., ABC. Needing some quickmoney, the team has a freshscheme: ‘‘Kidnap’’ the intern to geta ransom from his family.

‘‘CROSSING JORDAN,’’ 9 p.m.,NBC. After being kicked around the

schedule a lot, this show triesWednesdays. Tonight, a serial killer

taunts Nigel via clueson the Internet. Also,Jordan digs throughold files and findsbotched evidence.

‘‘IN CASE OF EMER-GENCY,’’ 9:30 p.m., ABC. Jason(David Arquette) has been trying todate the lovely Dr. Joanna (LoriLoughlin, left). He finally succeeds,but he doesn’t make a great impres-sion. She happens to be presentwhen his stuff gets repossessed.

‘‘LOST,’’ 10 p.m., ABC. Sawyer isstill trying to retrieve the thingspeople took when he was gone.Also, Locke, Sayid and Kate exam-ine an odd vehicle and its occupant.

‘‘MEDIUM,’’ 10 p.m., NBC. Thisdoesn’t happen on most shows: Alli-son wakes and finds that she’s ateenager. She has visions that willhelp the older Allison.

–Gannett News Service

WATCH LISTMUST SEE

‘AMERICAN IDOL,’ 7 P.M., AND ‘WEDDING BELLS,’ 8 P.M. BOTH ON FOX

The ‘‘Idol’’ women perform, which should mean a powerhouse night.They’ve been great in the past two weeks. Eight women are left, and two

will be cut Thursday.Then comes ‘‘Wedding Bells’’ with a deft blend of comedy and drama.We expect that from writer-producer David E. Kelley. The ‘‘Bells’’ opener is

in the tradition of his ‘‘Ally McBeal’’ or ‘‘Boston Legal,’’ cleverly written andneatly cast.

The owners of a wedding business have divorced and their daughters havetaken over.

Jane Bell (Teri Polo, above) is the oldest and steadiest one. Her husband(Benjamin King), dependable and dull, is chief operating officer.

Sammy (Sarah Jones) is the youngest, a beauty who seduces groomsmen.Annie (KaDee Strickland) is in the middle.

Then there’s a wise photographer (Michael Landes), a singer (ChrisWilliams) and a sarcastic assistant (Sherri Shepherd). These are great charac-ters in a show that’s off to a good start.OTHER CHOICES

‘AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL,’’ 8 p.m., CW. Last week’s opener introducedan interesting variety of contestants then trimmed the field to 12. The problemcame when they were supposed to illustrate a concept for a photo shoot. Most

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WEEK AHEAD

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Wilco can’t stopgiving away itsnew albumsNEW YORK | In what is becoming something of an unfor-tunate tradition, Wilco’s new Nonesuch album, ‘‘Sky BlueSky,’’ has leaked online, more than two months prior to

its May 15 release date.The group’s 2002 al-

bum ‘‘Yankee Hotel Fox-trot’’ was online for ninemonths before it waseventually released instores, and 2004’s ‘‘AGhost Is Born’’ also hit theInternet well before streetdate. In the latter in-stance, Wilco fan siteJustafan.org asked fanswho had downloaded thealbum early to donate

money to Doctors WithoutBorders, a fund which eventu-ally grew to $15,000.

‘‘There’s probably somegood argument to be madethat it will prevent a few peo-ple from buying the record,’’

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy told Billboard Thursday(March 8) at the band’s Chicago loft. ‘‘But there’s also theidea that I believe is true for us, which is, it’s people lis-tening to our music.’’

‘‘We feel very proud of our record and we want peopleto hear it. Ultimately, that’s the goal,’’ he continued. ‘‘Ithink most people will do the right thing and support usand buy the record, even if they have downloaded it.’’

‘‘Frankly, I would like to have people get a head starton knowing the material before we come to whatevertown they live in,’’ bassist John Stirratt added with alaugh.

To stem the tide, the group streamed ‘‘Sky Blue Sky’’from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. Sunday on its official Web site.

Wilco will get busy on the road beginning April 16 inBrisbane, Australia.

Jonathan Cohen, Billboard.com

IN THE STARSYour horoscope by Holiday Mathis

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The Cancer moon is a mother. Call yours. If you can’t call her, you canalways talk to her in the privacy of your own mental space, preferably inlullaby 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 wasso raucous, it’s like you have ahangover without having had thedrinks! Loud noises or suddenmoves irritate.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) | Emo-tions can stream directly from theheart, or be the result of a thought.The stars support you taking con-scious control of your feelings. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) | Youcould spend your money on a dayat the spa, a trip to the mall or pay-ing off your credit cards. CANCER (June 22-July 22) | A littlejump-start is all you need in orderto get going, and yet your enginesputters, refusing to turn over.Process all those backlogged emo-tions that are dragging you down.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) | Your feel-ings get hurt easier than the worldthinks. Maybe it’s because you’realways ‘‘on’’ that you seem impen-etrable to little annoyances. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) | You’restill flying high from a revelation,making it difficult to concentrateon anything else. But what couldbe more important than concen-trating on what that thrills you so?LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) | Peopleare counting on you to show up,and it’s obvious when you arrivethat they’re looking to you for di-rection. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) | It maytake a while to find out exactlywhere you are today. Listening toother people’s stories helps youfigure out where you stand.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) |It’s easier to see the gratificationof indulging in a piece of cake thanindulging a negative emotion, buteach has a payoff. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)| Youcould wait all day for someone toget his or her act together. Do whatmakes sense to feel complete. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) | Youfeel like a mother hen tending hercoop. There’s plenty to clean upand organize, and when a helperchickadee goes missing, you’re leftwith dangling details. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) | Whenthe boss leaves you incomplete in-structions, there’s nothing to dobut a little creative slapstick.

Mars is all man. He’s testos-terone and beards and deep gruffvoices hollering at boxingmatches. So what’s he doing hang-ing out with an ethereal muse likeNeptune? Actually, Neptune hasclassically been associated withmale characteristics — he was, af-ter all, the Greek god of the sea.But lately he’s softened his waysand melted into the feminine sideof life’s balance. This week, Marsand Neptune are sharing space inthe futuristic phantasmagoria ofAquarius, making this the perfectweek to play with your internalopposites — like finding a spiri-tual ambition, fighting for peace,engaging in a silent primal screamor embarking on a journey tonowhere.

REESE WITHERSPOON | is not onlyan A-list actress, but also a busi-ness force to bereckoned with.She was the exec-utive producer ofthe mega-hit‘‘Legally Blonde2: Red, White &Blonde.’’ Ariespeople can wheeland deal with thebest of ’em anddrive a hard bar-gain, too. Look formore producing and acting combi-nation projects from this mother oftwo in the coming year.

Chicago band Wilco,above, is making a habitout streaming their al-bums before release.The latest, Sky Blue Sky,is due in May.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 6) |It’s a purposeful year. You feelcertain that you’re on the righttrack, and you couldn’t bemore right. You’re movingthrough the summer in style —this could cost more thanyou’ve spent on ‘‘presenta-tion’’ in a while, and you enjoythe purchases immensely. Youshare a psychic connectionwith Libra and Aquarius peo-ple. Your lucky numbers are: 2,45, 49, 30 and 52.

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