Lara Weber

3. WHO boss: SARS under control The chief of the World Health Organization declared Tuesday that SARS has been "stopped dead in its tracks"--contained less than 100 days since the...

Numbers are usually reliable things: Two plus two equals four, 30 days hath September, and 17-year cicadas show up every 17 years. So why are millions of those cicadas amassing...

At a time when businesses are looking to do more with less, can companies still afford to encourage the time-laden tradition of mentoring? Nobody knows for sure, because this type...

Fans and stamp collectors in Britain are clamoring for a set of new stamps featuring photos of Prince William designed to celebrate his 21st birthday. The stamp features another first,...

Lawyers seeking reparations for African-American descendants of slaves on Tuesday added new plaintiffs to the lawsuit--a 104-year-old Louisiana man and seven of his living children, all of whom claim to...

A hostage standoff ended peacefully at a Plainfield bank Tuesday afternoon, with the gunman releasing all four hostages within about three and a half hours. Police said Edward Binert, 34,...

The American Medical Association endorsed cloning for research purposes Tuesday, putting the nation's largest organization of doctors officially at odds with the Bush administration. The policy, adopted without debate at...

A Galesburg man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a traffic accident that killed his girlfriend as she sat on his lap having sex with him as...

A dead crow in Chicago has tested positive for West Nile virus, bringing to three the number of Illinois birds found this year to be infected with the disease. Infected...

Chicago police overreacted against anti-war demonstrators during a March 20 protest downtown, using force when it wasn't necessary, denying medical attention and refusing to let people disperse, according to witnesses...