Wanda Jemison, who has worked at Conn-Selmer for 18 years, solders a complete Vincent Bach trumpet by hand at the factory in Elkhart, Indiana. Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times It begins with a low, barely audible rumble. The double basses, contrabassoon …
Look inside the Indiana company trying to re-create the world’s best trumpets Read MoreA crowd carries signs at a rally outside the 10th District police station to demand that police do more to solve unsolved murders, May 10, 2022. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Twenty-five years ago, my dad, Don Schemel, was shot and killed …
Illinois lawmakers should pass these bills to spur action on cold case murders Read MoreThe man, 23, was found in the 1600 block of South Loomis Street. File photo A man was found stabbed to dead in Pilsen early Friday, police said. The unidentified man, 23, was in the 1600 block of South Loomis …
Man stabbed to death in Pilsen Read MorePresident Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Pennsylvania. Stephanie Scarbrough|AP “Women put Joe in the White House four years ago,” Jill Biden argued recently, “and women will do it again.” Her first statement is undeniably true. The second …
How Biden will win women Read MoreIranian women without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarf walk past a banner showing missiles being launched from Iranian map in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. Vahid Salemi/AP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An apparent Israeli drone attack …
Iran fires at apparent Israeli attack drones near Isfahan air base and nuclear site Read MoreLemont police were called to the D-Lux Budget Inn at 12241 Archer Ave. around 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Sun-Times file Two people were found dead in separate motel rooms in southwest suburban Lemont after a suspected murder-suicide Thursday morning, police said. …
Two dead after apparent murder-suicide in Lemont motel Read MoreIn his last protest march, Martin Luther King Jr. led a parade of demonstrators down Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, lending his support to striking sanitation workers. After a few young Black men started breaking storefront windows, the indiscriminate police …
SCOTUS misses a chance to protect peaceful protesters Read More1. You probably think of kale as a leafy vegetable that you grow on an annual basis like lettuce and cabbage. Kale, in fact, is an ancestor of cabbage. Cabbage was considered to be an improvement over kale since it …
Drought-tolerant, virtually unkillable plants and more for the garden this week Read MoreDemocrats completely dominate California’s state government, and one aspect of that hegemony is their ability to act without compunction. When doing whatever they want to do, Democratic officeholders don’t have to worry about competition from the state’s shriveled-up Republican Party …
Californians are worried about crime, setting the stage for a ballot measure showdown Read MoreThe 2024 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach has returned. And for those longtime fans — or even first-timers — who wish they could drive as fast as the pros do on the circuit, there’s some good news this year. …
Want to know what driving the Grand Prix of Long Beach track is like? Now you can — sort of Read MoreDid Taylor Swift reveal that she was once a “functional alcoholic” in lyrics from The Tortured Poets Department? As you’re likely aware, Taylor has dropped several surprises on fans in the past 24 hours, including the news that TTPD is …
Taylor Swift Hints at ‘Functional Alcoholic’ Past on TTPD Track … Read MoreThe west Londoners take on Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-final (Picture: Getty) Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino has clarified comments he has made in the past about lemons absorbing negative energy and now says they are simply a comforting …
Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino reveals the truth behind his lemon obsession Read MoreChelsea’s penalty row overshadowed their win over Everton on Monday (Picture: Getty) Mauricio Pochettino says it’s time to ‘move on’ from the penalty incident that overshadowed Chelsea’s victory over Everton, though believes the row between his players showed the ‘character …
Mauricio Pochettino reveals the one positive he took away from Chelsea’s penalty row against Everton Read MoreErling Haaland is a doubt for the FA Cup semi-final on Saturday (Picture: Getty) Pep Guardiola confirmed that Erling Haaland is a doubt for Manchester City’s FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea on Saturday after he picked up an injury against …
Erling Haaland injury: Pep Guardiola issues update ahead of Man City vs Chelsea Read MoreArsenal’s season is on the brink of collapse after two costly losses (Picture: Getty) Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has provided two reasons for his team’s decline in performances after they lost to Aston Villa and Bayern Munich back-to-back. Two successive …
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta names two reasons for drop in performances Read MoreJarrad Branthwaite is in a race to be fit for Everton’s clash vs Nottingham Forest (AMA/Getty) Sean Dyche is hopeful that Jarrad Branthwaite will shake off his injury for Everton’s Premier League clash at home to Nottingham Forest on Sunday. …
Jarrad Branthwaite injury: Sean Dyche issues update ahead of Everton vs Nottingham Forest Read MoreJoe Alwyn is Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend who she dated from 2016 to 2023 (Picture: Christopher Polk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank) Taylor Swift dated actor Joe Alwyn for six years but the pair broke up in 2023. It now appears that her ex-boyfriend …
Where is Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn now? Read MoreEarly crypto investor James Howells made the mistake of accidentally throwing 8,000 Bitcoins away more than ten years ago (Picture: SWNS) A landfill in South Wales is currently being guarded around the clock from Bitcoin hunters seeking their fortune. The …
Inside the huge pile of rubbish hiding a £1,500,000,000 Bitcoin fortune Read MoreRachel Lomax assaulted a McDonalds worker who was trying to break up a late-night fight (Picture: Cavendish Press) An Open University student used her mobile phone to viciously assault a heroic McDonald’s worker who stepped in to break up a …
Woman split open McDonald’s worker’s head after hitting him with her phone Read MoreFiona Beal, 50, admits she killed her 42-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Billingham (Picture: Northamptonshire Police/SWNS/PA) A primary school teacher stabbed her cheating boyfriend to death ‘in cold blood’ and buried his body in the garden while claiming they had Covid and …
Primary school teacher killed partner ‘in cold blood’ then buried him in garden Read More