Dear Abby: Boyfriend spent our fuel cash on a tattoo for

DEAR ABBY: My circle of relatives simply got here again from a relative’s after a weekend talk over with. The instance used to be a celebration, and he had a tattoo artist come over. My boyfriend — the daddy of our 14- and 3-year-olds — spent our final $100 and went forward and were given himself a tattoo! We aren’t wealthy, and we needed to borrow cash for fuel to get house. I feel he's probably the most egocentric particular person at the face of the planet, and I am getting mad at him for each different little factor now. I will’t consider many grownup males would do this to their spouse. I do know a couple

Mike Madigan best friend former Ald. Frank Olivo implicated in

State House Speaker Mike Madigan’s former hand-picked alderman was once named Tuesday as probably the most robust Southwest Side Democrat’s pals who was once on ComEd’s payroll in spite of doing very little paintings. Testifying earlier than the Illinois House committee investigating Madigan, David Glockner, ComEd’s govt vp of compliance and audit, recognized Frank Olivo as probably the most individuals who won one of the $1.three million that the software paid to Madigan’s pals in what amounted to a ghost-payrolling scheme at a time when ComEd was once in the hunt for the speaker’s strengthen for regulation. Glockner declined to substantiate whether or not the Frank Olivo he recognized as Associate No. 2 within the software corporate’s deferred prosecution

Coca-Cola, Molson Coors teaming up on Topo Chico Hard

SILVER SPRING, Md. — With the assistance of Molson Coors, Coca-Cola will get started promoting the “hard stuff” — arduous seltzer, this is. The corporations mentioned the brand new alcoholic beverage will come within the type of Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, which they hope to have on retailer cabinets within the first part of 2021. The arduous seltzer will are available in 4 flavors: Tangy Lemon Lime, Exotic Pineapple, Strawberry Guava and Tropical Mango. Chicago-based Molson Coors, which has two different seltzer manufacturers in its portfolio, will maintain the promoting, gross sales and distribution of the alcohol-infused mineral water, a product that has observed large expansion within the U.S. not too long ago. IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, a knowledge company,

Dear Abby: Grieving widower wishes pals, spare time activities — however now not

DEAR ABBY: Your recommendation to the grieving widower “In Need of Someone” (June 22) used to be spot on. I met my husband when I used to be 14. We married at 18, and he died when he used to be 44. After his dying, I had no concept how one can be an individual as a result of I had at all times been a spouse. In the early years, I cried on a daily basis and used to be looking, like “In Need,” to fill that vacant spot in my existence. Then sooner or later, I began understanding what to do in regards to the different holes in my existence. I had now not been

Lightning clean Stars 2-Zero to seize Stanley Cup in six

EDMONTON, Alberta — The Tampa Bay Lightning are the champions of bubble hockey. Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th target and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-Zero on Monday night time to win the Stanley Cup and end off probably the most bizarre NHL postseason in historical past, staged just about solely in quarantine as a result of the pandemic. The clock hitting zeros in an empty area nevertheless activate a completely satisfied party for a staff that continued years of playoff heartbreak and two months in isolation. Goals from Point and Blake Coleman and a 22-save shutout through Andrei Vasilevskiy in Game 6 had been sufficient to continual the Lightning to their 2nd championship after profitable it

Mother allegedly stabbed 5-year-old daughter to dying in

An East Garfield Park lady allegedly stabbed her 5-year-old daughter to dying as her 8-year-old daughter witnessed the bloodshed and later attempted to forestall the homicide. The older woman pulled her mom’s hair in try to interfere in what Cook County Judge Mary Marubio described as a “brutal and vicious” assault. But she used to be too overdue and couldn’t save Serenity Arrington, prosecutors mentioned. The 8-year-old woman later instructed her maternal grandfather that “mommy killed her little sister,” Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy mentioned. The sisters were within the room in their mom — Simone Austin — Saturday morning, when Austin requested her older daughter to depart, Murphy mentioned. The older daughter left however then stood out of doors the door,

Dear Abby: Husband tells me all about his problems, by no means

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I've been married for 30 years. He has all the time been self-centered. We have mentioned this over time, and it hasn’t modified his disposition. I purchased him an “It’s All About Me” espresso cup years in the past as a shaggy dog story, and he enjoys the use of it! We each have workplace jobs and daily problems and issues of our workers and associates. If we communicate at the telephone at lunch or over dinner, he describes his day by day problems in excruciating element, on the lookout for my comments/enter after which strikes on. There isn't a time I will replace him on my problems and get his enter to