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Midday News Links: 92-Year-Old Suburban Woman Drives Car Into Swimming Pool

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Dec 3, 2012 7:40PM


  • A 92-year-old woman drove her car into a swimming pool on Saturday in Northbrook. Fortunately the pool had just three to four feet of water in it, and she was unharmed. A bystander said it looked like she was trying to park when she hit the gas instead of the brake, zooming through a fence and into the pool. [NBC]

  • An off-duty police officer caught two men stealing packages from a mail truck. [Tribune]

  • United Airlines is paying its employees $100 bonuses to reward them for a good on-time performance in November. [Crain's]

  • It looks like The Mob Doctor has been put out of its misery. [Huffington Post]

  • One of Sports Illustrated's "Signs of the Apocalypse" is a Chicago man who started a Facebook page to try to persuade her wife to name their daughter after a Notre Dame player. [Deadspin]

  • It's sort of rude for Adidas to run the Derrick Rose "The Return" ad during Bulls games, just to remind us all that Rose hasn't returned yet. [NY Times]