chicago sun-times

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:40PM 8/18/2009
    Robert Novak, the conservative columnist whose role in the Valerie Plame affair made him a focus of late-life controversy, has died of brain cancer at age 78. Novak, known with backhanded affection to political buffs as "the Prince of Darkness," wrote a syndicated column, "Inside Report," that ran...

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 1:00PM 3/31/2009
    Will Chicago be the next one newspaper town? Sun-Times Media Group Inc. (SUTM), publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and other papers in the Chicago area, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, following similar moves by its longtime rival Tribune Co. and owners of papers in Philadelphia and...