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Extra Extra: It's The Third Warmest Winter On Record

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Mar 3, 2012 10:00PM

• This is the third warmest winter on record, with temperatures 5 degrees above normal. [Tribune]

• Tornadoes continue to swirl across the Midwest, and the death toll is up to 37. [Sun-Times]

• A 19-year-old woman is missing from Back of the Yards. [Tribune]

• Fred Armisen on his time in Chicago. [WBEZ]

• A Humboldt Park man was arrested yesterday on charges that he threw his girlfriend's dog off a porch, causing it to break some bones. [NBC Chicago]

• House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Jesse Jackson Jr. in his re-election bid. [Tribune]