Authorities say Brian Smith, the man suspected of at least three Dallas-area roadway shootings Monday, has died. Hours after the shootings, Smith was involved in a standoff with police. He attempted to commit suicide that night and died as a

Who says Santa Claus doesn't exist? The military personnel charged with being the eyes in the sky are certainly acting like he does -- and they've been joined on the Internet by millions of believers.

A North Side movie usher has been charged in the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy outside a CTA Red Line station Dec. 19 in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

This Christmas comes in troubled times with smoldering wars and a struggling economy. On Christmas Eve, Christians around the world and here at home pray for peace and prosperity. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports.

A small fire started at the home of U. S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. early Wednesday on the South Side.

This Christmas comes in troubled times with smoldering wars and a struggling economy. On Christmas Eve, Christians around the world and here at home pray for peace and prosperity. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports.

It's a tried and true way to save money that's getting a second look. Instead of buying bestsellers at the bookstore or renting DVDs from the video store, you can stretch your dollar by going to the library instead.

The last words Charles Winters spoke to his son nearly 25 years ago --"Keep the faith" -- guided the Miami businessman as he sought a rarepresidential pardon for his late father's crime: aiding Israel in 1948as it fought to survive.

Consumer spending fell for a fifth straight month in November, thelongest weak stretch in a half-century, while incomes declined underthe weight of massive job layoffs. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that consumer spendingfell by 0.6 percent last month, slightly smaller

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to a record low for thesecond straight week, causing refinancing applications to surge to thehighest level in more than five years, a month after the FederalReserve pledged to channel billions to prop up the

Worries over lead paint in mass-market toys made the holidays a littlebrighter for handcrafted toy makers last year, but now the federalgovernment's response to the scare has some workshops fearful that thisChristmas might be their last.

After limping through a holiday season expected to be the worst indecades, the nation's stores made it to Christmas with little tocelebrate. For some merchants, the winter and beyond arelikely to get even bleaker, because many Americans are too worriedabout

More and more angry homeowners, forced out of the houses by foreclosure, are trashing them, leaving a damaged mess behind. Some are stripping them down to the walls, reports Kelly Cobiella on The Early Show. She went into one foreclosed

President-elect Barack Obama is asking the country to look to George Washington's improbable crossing on the Delaware River on Christmas Day as inspiration to get through current tough times.

President-elect Barack Obama has said all along that neither he nor histeam was involved in any eye-popping dealmaking over filling hisvacated Senate seat. Obama's hand-picked investigator agreed. "Everybody behaved appropriately," declared Greg Craig, Obama'sincoming White House counsel and the person

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Montgomery County, Md. Executive Ike Leggett plan to tour the scene of a massive water main break that trapped nine motorists on a Bethesda, Md. road Tuesday.

Pastor Rick Warren, chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to pray at his inauguration, said in a video message to his church that he doesn't equate gay relationships with incest or pedophilia, but opposes redefining marriage just as any conservative Christian