FROM the FARM: Raccoon up to mischief in farm chicken coop

Phil Potempa's weekly farm column recipe.

FROM the FARM: Join me this month for my free 'Spring Cooking Show'

Phil Potempa's weekly farm column recipe.

OFFBEAT: NYC cartoonist back in NWI to speak to youth

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

Times Columnist Philip Potempa with psychic Irene Hughes in May 2012

Times Columnist Philip Potempa visiting with psychic Irene Hughes in May 2012.

OFFBEAT: Psychic Irene Hughes bright as stars she consulted

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Irene Hughes Psychic Reading Telephone Service Logo

Psychic Irene Hughes said she later lamented selling her name and likeness rights to a company to use for a psychic reading telephone service that she was not affiliated with, a far as providing her own psychic talents.

Psychic Irene Hughes dead at age 92

Irene Hughes, who went from being a Chicago Heights housewife to one of the world's most acclaimed psychics, died early Friday morning. She was 92.

Psychic Irene Hughes in the Egyptian Room of her Home in Crete, Ill.

Times columnist Philip Potempa chats with Psychic Irene Hughes in "the Egyptian Room" at her Crete, Ill. home in January 2004.

Irene Hughes Book of Predictions

READING THE SIGNS - - Psychic Irene Hughes, whose accurate predictions have earned her a celebrity reputation, provided predictions published for decades in books, magazines and newspapers.

Psychic Irene Hughes dead at age 92

Psychic Irene Hughes, shown speaking at Annie's Tea Room in Crete, Ill., at an August 2007 event, died Friday. She was 92.

Psychic Irene Hughes dead at age 92

Psychic Irene Hughes, shown at home in 2004, has amazed the masses with her accurate predictions. Hughes died at 92 on Friday morning.

Psychic Irene Hughes dead at age 92

Psychic Irene Hughes is shown in a promotional photo from September 1975.

Psychic Irene Hughs in September 1975

Psychic Irene Hughes is shown in a promotional photo from September 1975.

OFFBEAT: Psychic Irene Hughes still predicting great events at age 92

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Bill Hughes, Peggy Potempa and Irene Hughes celebrate Bill's 93rd Birthday in January 2011

Peggy Potempa, (center) mother of Times Columnist Philip Potempa, chats with psychic Irene Hughes, 90, (right) and her husband Bill, 93, in Crete, Ill. in January 2011.

OFFBEAT: Female WWII baseball team in Valpo this weekend, tribute to deaths of actor Jonathan Frid and Bill Hughes, husband of psychic Irene Hughes

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OFFBEAT: South Holland actor enjoying play's run and pleased with co-star's Tony nod

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Star wars: Astrologers address 'revelation' of horoscope shift

The last time astrologer and syndicated horoscope newspaper columnist Jacqueline Bigar faced a firestorm of reader and client questions about a "sudden change" in the celestial heavens was August 2006.

OFFBEAT: Psychic Irene Hughes and hubby Bill now in retirement home, but not retired

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Bill Hughes, Peggy Potempa and Irene Hughes

Peggy Potempa, (center) mother of Times Columnist Philip Potempa, chats with psychic Irene Hughes, 90, (right) and her husband Bill, 93, at their new home at a retirement community in Crete, Ill.