A U-S Army deserter who was expelled from Canada earlier this week is being escorted back to his post under police guard today. Private first class Robin Long is originally from Boise. Peace activists from Bellingham held a vigil to
There's an unusual race in the cards this weekend. It's car versus plane. The car driver is retired Air Force reservist Bill Braack of Castle Rock, Washington. Braack says he's so confident of winning in his jet car, he'll give
On Thursday, the former vice president challenged the nation to generate every kilowatt of electricity from renewable sources within ten years. Tom Banse reports the Northwest has a big head start toward that goal if you count hydropower generation.
Both Oregon and Washington are getting ready to roll out a free statewide recycling program for electronic waste. But some lawmakers are worried about what's going to happen to all of those TV's and computers that people turn in. Salem
This week a military judge in Fort Knox sentenced Army Private First Class James Burmeister to six months in jail. Burmeister, who is from Eugene, fled to Canada after serving in Iraq. KLCC's Rachael McDonald reports.
A 13-year-old runaway was ordered held in juvenile court Friday morning after she somehow -- while shackled and handcuffed - stole a minivan that was taking her to the police station Thursday afternoon near south suburban Chicago Heights.
A man is in custody Friday afternoon for allegedly bludgeoning an 86 year-old man -- who died Thursday -- in the head with a baseball bat at his West Side home earlier this month.
Among those expected to travel with Sen. Obama on his upcoming international journey is his longtime campaign advisor, David Axelrod. CBS 2's Political Editor Mike Flannery spoke with him late today about the promise and peril of the Illinois senator's
We all want that summer glow and there are plenty of tanning products that promise to deliver, without getting out in the sun. CBS 2's Liz Keptner reports there is a new tanning product on the market, and it promises
Vandals have hit a northwest suburban church, and the victims are single mothers. The windows of several used cars meant to be donated to single mothers as part of a church ministry program were smashed at Medinah Baptist Church. CBS
Ads depicting cows, pigs and hens in cramped, dirty cages and gestation quarters are staring CTA commuters in the face as part of Mercy For Animals' two-month anti-meat campaign.
The makers of the new "Batman" movie really burned through the bucks in Chicago. "The Dark Knight" was filmed here, of course. The movie makers purchased tons of steel, lots of glass and they even blew up a building. It
A "person of interest" is reportedly in police custody Friday afternoon for the slaying of a 9-year-old girl found dead by her father on the South Side on Tuesday. CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports police are officially neither confirming nor
If today is like yesterday and the day before that, it will be the 26th consecutive day with no sunspots. Think this is bad? At the last solar minimum, there were only four days showing any sunspots between September 5
In the next step of developing a long-term procedure to mitigate interference to the Air Force PAVE PAWS radar site at Cape Cod Air Force Station in Massachusetts, the ARRL has brokered a deal that will allow new coordinations to
The ARRL Board of Directors holds their second meeting of 2008 July 18-19 in Windsor, Connecticut, with Directors, Vice Directors and ARRL Board officers in attendance. The meeting, which begins today and continues through Saturday, was preceded on Thursday with
Jul. 17--Michael G. Kane's first visit to Indianapolis was a momentous one. Within an hour after arriving on Wednesday, the 49-year-old newspaper executive was introduced to the staff of The Indianapolis Star as its new president and publisher.
