On Tuesday, Obama gave the clearest sign yet that he considers the Democratic presidential nomination in the bag, and he's not waiting for a Clinton concession speech to start campaigning all-out against Republican Sen. John McCain.

Hillary Rodham Clinton collided with Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary on Tuesday, persisting in the Democratic presidential race despite dwindling odds and a lengthening delegate deficit.

After a daylong battle over who will run Cook County's billion-dollar system of hospitals and health clinics, County Board President Todd Stroger must come up with several new names. As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, not many people

A Chicago girl was assaulted just a block from her school on the West Side near Garfield Park. As police look for clues they are also warning parents to be on alert. Chicago police say they're still talking with the

The official death toll in China from the worst earthquake there in three decades has climbed past 12,000 people and there's no doubt it will go much higher. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports Chicagoans whose loved ones were caught in

A criminal justice student who said she knew one or two songs byR&B star R. Kelly and called his music "old stuff" was added to thejury in the singer's child pornography trial Tuesday.

Tribune Company and CEO Sam Zell have rejected an Illinois state agency's plan to buy Wrigley Field and are pushing ahead to sell the ballpark together with the Chicago Cubs.

Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise duringthe teen years -- starting as young as age 12 -- can help protect girlsfrom breast cancer when they're grown.

The Pentagon must focus on current war demands, even if it means straining the U.S. armed forces and devoting less time and money on future threats, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

John Hagee, an influential televangelist who endorsed John McCain, isapologizing to Catholics for referring to the Roman Catholic Church as"the great whore" and calling it "the apostate church."

Median home prices fell in two-thirds of the cities surveyed during the first three months of this year while 46 states reported experienced declining sales, a real estate trade group reported Tuesday.

Fewer Americans are expected to fly this summer, but don't expect more empty seats as carriers pack planes to help offset surging fuel costs.

Wall Street pulled back Tuesday after a report on retail sales andcomments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave investorslittle incentive to extend the previous session's big advance. Recordoil and gas prices added to the selling.

Oil prices shot to a new record near $127 a barrel Tuesday on reports that Iran is planning to cut crude oil production.

The Democratic presidential race runs on two tracks now, one snaking through the West Virginia primary Tuesday and the other mapped out by Barack Obama through battleground states in the fall.

The president of west suburban Cicero claims an imposter is posting defamatory content about him on the popular social Web site MySpace.com.

Financial troubles at Cook County's Stroger Hospital and health clinics are worse than previously reported. It's one more headache for embattled County Board President Todd Stroger. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports some write him off as a one-termer,

We asked you how you think Todd Stroger is performing as president of the Cook County Board. Here is what you had to say.

Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II, with a bill they hope will buoy them this election season and become an albatross for Republicans.