Virginia Senator John Warner wants to create a national speed limit to save the country money on gas.

Sen. John Kerry believes that the presumptive Republican nominee for president is adhering to the Bush Administration orthodoxy in ways that call into question his carefully-nurtured image as a political maverick.

Sunday afternoon, family, friends and fellow officers will pay their respects to a Chicago police officer killed in the line of duty. CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports that the wake for fallen police officer Richard Francis starts at noon at

North suburban police are on a manhunt Saturday night. They're looking for a person of interest, in the killing of a woman, who died after looking for help at a north suburban hotel.

A Chicago man has been charged with drunken driving for allegedly running a South Side stop sign and crashing into a police car Friday night in the Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with burglary, murder and traffic violations in connection to the fatal hit-and-run last week that took the life of a 78-year-old woman.

A massive fire consumed an old factory early Sunday morning on the Southwest Side.

An exchange of gunfire between police and a person on the South Side early Sunday ended with the person critically wounded after being shot by officers.

When Quincy, Ill. And Cedar Rapids, Iowa were ravaged by floods last month, there was a human toll paid in damaged property and lost homes, but there was also a toll exacted on pets, as CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.

Two Chicago police officers were injured Friday night when a vehicle ran a stop sign and crashed into their squad car in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

A man who heard a possible intruder in a downstairs apartment unit was fatally shot early Saturday in the Lawndale neighborhood.

A man suspected in a Saturday morning Wicker Park bank robbery slit his throat with a box cutter as police were moving in to arrest him, sources said.

A South Side family is mourning the loss of a five-year-old Saturday night. The little boy fell into Lake Michigan on Thursday, and rescuers found him some 20 minutes later. It turns out the child was in the care of

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama toldreporters Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" hisrecent words on Iraq. "I was a little puzzled by the frenzy that I set offby what I thought was a

A woman is dead after a reported Saturday afternoon stabbing near a far north suburban Lincolnshire resort.

Rick Ankiel slapped a two-run, two-out single to right field in the bottom of the ninth inning to cap a three-run rally and lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-4 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.