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The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Jacksonville Jaguars - INSIDE SLANT Same person? Yes. Same offense? Don't know, he wouldn't say this time. Same explanation? Yes. Same length of time to explain it? No, much shorter this time. That sums up the...

Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com. For more information on Dr. Blythe, go to pediatricassociates.com. April 29, 2013 Q: My 5-year-old daughter just had her adenoids and tonsils removed because of snoring...

Back with the Braves for the first time since his emergency appendectomy, right fielder Jason Heyward was noticeably slimmer, moving gingerly around the clubhouse and, he said, nowhere near being able to swing a bat. His goal is to return to the...

Running Holt victorious in Half Marathon in Columbia Bridget Holt, 34, of Gambrills won the second annual Athleta Iron Girl Columbia Half Marathon in Columbia in 1 hour, 21 minutes, 22 seconds. Tyler Brannen, 41, of New Hampshire took the 5K in 19:43....

A surgeon enters the operating room, offers his hands to a nurse and watches as she helps him into his rubber gloves with a snap. He glances at the patient on the table. A cloth covers the man's torso but for one area. Three trocars — tubes into...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti has been diagnosed with an inguinal hernia that will force him to bow out of the orchestra’s entire tour of the Far East, Jan. 25-Feb. 7. After the Italian maestro, 71, flew home to Milan,...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti is expected to be released Tuesday from a hospital in Milan, Italy, where on Monday morning he successfully underwent a hernia operation. "Maestro Muti’s surgery went smoothly and he is...

Riccardo Muti just can’t seem to catch a break. And, this time around, it isn’t only the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago public who are being affected by his health issues. Thousands of listeners throughout the...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has filled the last remaining gap in the podium roster of its upcoming Far East tour, a void created by music director Riccardo Muti’s cancellation of his appearances because of illness. In an e-mail received on...

DEERFIELD BEACH Hundreds of men and women who have committed minor offenses, such as driving without a license, or no apparent crime at all, are locked up for weeks and months in a little-known central Broward County facility run by a private company....

He wanted to play center field for the New York Yankees, just like his childhood hero, Mickey Mantle. A budding talent was there. So was the love of the game. But around the age of 15, his batting eye disappeared, he said, "and I just couldn't hit the...

Ravens starting left defensive end Pernell McPhee returned to practice on a limited basis after being sidelined last Friday and ruled out for the third game in a row against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Meanwhile, tight end Dennis Pitta, who got knocked out...