Losing a job in this recession can be traumatic, but for some it is an opportunity to follow a dream. Ben Tracy shows us one man whose dreams of professional bowling came true.
Former Women Air Force Service Pilots, or WASPs, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their service during World War II. Kwame Holman reports from Wednesday's ceremony.
The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. Jeffrey Brown reports.
Gov. Quinn called today for a one percentage point increase in the state income tax to fund education. Quinn is asking legislators to raise the income tax to 4 percent from the current 3 percent. That 1 percent will be enough to restore our education budget to current levels, Quinn said in his budget address in Springfield.
Oh sure, it's fine to bark "Faster! Faster!" at a sixth-grader when you're speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno -- the most decorated winter Olympian in American history. Or, "You've got to have more speed!" A winded Jer'mia Harris, 11, didn't mind, though, as she played an interactive physical fitness video game intended to discourage underage drinking.
Rush University Medical Center will pay a $1.5 million fine to settle federal charges it filed false Medicare claims. The center is accused of violating the False Claims Act by submitting improper claims from 2000 through 2007, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
