A scrub tech at Rose Medical Center is accused of switchingnarcotic-filled syringes in operating rooms with dirty saline-filledsyringes. Thousands of patients may be at risk for exposure toHepatitis C.
With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers saythey have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of localblazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a proteinon its surface that
The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, alaw enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massivecrowd at the singer's memorial service.
An injury like tennis elbow or tendonitis in the knee can cause pain for months, and in some cases years. There are fewer blood vessels in these areas which slows the healing process. Now doctors are using a patients own
A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death.
We all hate parking tickets. Close to three million are written in Chicago every year. CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman has been getting furious e-mails from viewers who say they got parking tickets they didn't deserve. So she started looking
The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public. The Justice Department had originally said it intended to release the
With joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was"deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too manyfamilies are worried about "whether they will be next" to suffereconomically.
Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) on Thursday accused the private operators of the complained that the city's parking meter operators were being "deceptive," after she was charged $32.50 at a two-hour parking meter that charged her for parking overnight.
Protests are popping up all over Illinois. Thousands facing layoffs because of the state budget stalemate in Springfield are on the march. Working parents and day care workers demonstrated in Logan Square Thursday. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports.
CNN is reporting that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be resigning in a month as governor of Alaska. The office of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin issued a press release todaysaying she will make an announcement from her home in Wasilla
A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to
Vice President Joe Biden met with the top American military commanderand diplomat on Friday as he made his first visit to Iraq after beingappointed to oversee the administration's Iraq policy.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is defending the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and says the rule of law is working in Honduras. Zelaya was ousted in a military coup after he ignored a Supreme Court order to halt
The wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his affair with an Argentine woman "inexcusable" but said Thursday she is willing to forgive him. Jenny Sanford's e-mailed statement was her first public comment since her husband told The
Michael Jackson's former British bodyguard says the star had a girlfriend in the months before he died, and recalled "confiscating" bags of prescription medicine from the singer out of fear that he might die.
The eldest Jonas brother, Kevin, and his girlfriend Danielle Deleasa were engaged Wednesday. The 21-year-old Jonas is one-third of the popular Jonas Brothers, along with Joe and Nick Jonas.
Ed McMahon was remembered as a man with a passion for life, his family and the Marine Corps at a tribute Wednesday to the late sidekick of "The Tonight Show" flavored by military pomp, prayer and music. "He did have
