AUSTIN A panel of lawmakers today began the latest leg of their efforts to impose a new tax structure to pay for public schools. They're hoping to have a proposal to offer the...

NEW ORLEANS At least 147 Louisiana residents died in other states after Hurricane Katrina, or just before the storm.Included in those are a baby who lived less than an...

DALLAS Wind energy generation capacity grew 35 percent last year thanks to another two-thousand, 431 megawatts coming online nationwide.

The body of a missing 9-year-old boy who drowned in Lake Palestine was found this afternoon.

Last year was the warmest in a century, nosing out 1998, a federal analysis concludes.

A Norwegian doctor who last week said he fabricated a mouth cancer research article that was published in October in the journal The...

Many adults who had childhood surgery to repair lethal heart defects are unaware that those repairs may start to fail as they approach...

With close to two weeks until the Super Bowl, and you need a break from the game. Peter Schrager says it'll be tough, because suddenly everybody — regardless of their knowledge, or lack thereof — thinks they are an expert,

Former Houston Texans head coach Dom Capers was hired by the Miami Dolphins on Tuesday as a special assistant to the head coach.

The Atlanta Falcons hired veteran NFL assistant Bill Musgrave as its new quarterbacks coach on Tuesday.

The Carolina Panthers' four-week road odyssey came to a disappointing end Sunday... as the Seattle Seahawks flexed their muscles and staked their claim as the NFC's best team with a resounding 34-14 victory at Qwest Field.

Mike Shanahan might be the least-respected coach in NFL history to win a pair of Super Bowls... and this week's loss in the AFC Championship game didn't improve his status.

Ron Artest and the Indiana Pacers are about to part company - finally. A trade that would send the volatile star forward to the Sacramento Kings for forward Peja Stojakovic was imminent Tuesday... according to media reports.

Unlike many aging superstars... Mario Lemieux's problem wasn't that his heart was no longer in the game. Rather... his heart no longer allowed him play the game the way he had always played it.

They say it's all in a day's work, but 136 Chicago police officers were honored Tueseday for going above and beyond the call of duty. CBS 2's Joanie Lum introduces us to some of them.

Owners of the trendy James hotel in Scottsdale announced Tuesday that they are abandoning the flagship property to expand the brand in bigger cities. The new owners intend to re-brand it as the Mondrian Scottsdale

The Walt Disney Co. says it is buying longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios Inc. for $7.4 billion.

Bill Kollar was hired as Bills defensive line coach Tuesday, marking Dick Jauron's first move since taking over as head coach.Kollar, a 17-year NFL assistant, spent the last five seasons as defensive line coach with the St. Louis Rams. He

Same sex marriage is a hot topic in this year's Illinois election campaigns. On Tuesday, one republican candidate for governor contributed thousands of dollars to a group pushing a ban on gay marriage in the state.