Maybe it's a sign of the tough economic times. Or maybe it's just the mark of a dirty lifestyle.

As millions of Illinois residents prepare to hit the roadways to visit family and friends this holiday season, Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Secretary Milton R. Sees announced Saturday the agency suspend lane closures where possible over the Christmas holiday

A combination of alcohol, speed and poor road conditions have led to at least seven rollover accidents on highways in and around the city overnight.

As the Chicago area continues to clean up from Friday's blizzard, meteorologists Saturday are tracking a cold front that will bring frigid temperatures and bitter cold wind chill values.

A judge ordered Sunday that a South Side man accused of trying to kill a Chicago Police sergeant be held on a $100,000 cash bond.

A Chicago family is mourning a promising teenager stabbed to death Friday night in Rogers Park. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot has more on the young life cut short and his final gift this holiday season.

The latest person asking President George Bush to commute the sentence of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan is Ryan's wife.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald gave the midyear commencement address at Bradley University in central Illinois Saturday.

Over the last two weeks in American cycling USA Cycling announced the dates and locations of the majority of its 2009 national championships, the 13 American squads that will compete as UCI Continental teams in 2009 were announced, plans for

Amnesty International has said that industry claims that Taser stun guns are safe and non-lethal do not stand up to scrutiny.

The authorization of "aggressive" interrogation techniques by senior US government officials has been a "direct cause of detainee abuse" in the "war on terror", according to a US Senate inquiry.

Over one hundred countries voted overwhelmingly in favour of a second resolution on "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty" at the United Nations on Thursday.

Amnesty International released one of the most detailed reports to date on the safety of stun guns.

Three detainees were released on Tuesday from the Guantánamo detention camp to their homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but three others remain.

The journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush is reported to have suffered various injuries after being beaten up by security officials.

As his February 2009 court date approaches, Alec Zubarau, WB6X, of Palmdale, California, gets ready to battle his town after being ordered to dismantle his previously approved antenna system. The City of Palmdale has widened its opposition to Amateur Radio

Last week's sunspot group was only visible for three days, December 10-12. The average daily sunspot number for all of 2007 was 12.8; if we see no sunspots for the rest of 2008, the average for this year will be

This week's Surfin' looks back on radio and electronic history via vintage Radio Shack catalogs.

In Zimbabwe in southern Africa, in a country that has been suffering from political and economic chaos, a cholera outbreak has become a humanitarian crisis. More than a thousand people have died and tens of thousands are infected. OxFam, Doctors

A UN international criminal tribunal has sentenced the main organizer of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to life imprisonment. The court ruled that Col. Theoneste Bagosora was responsible for ordering the military to kill political opponents and ethnic rivals. More than