A north suburban teenager was charged Wednesday in the child abuse death of an 11-month-old Chicago girl.

Wall Street wavered Wednesday as a mild recovery in oil prices sapped the momentum from the previous day's big stock rally.

Oil prices rebounded from consecutive days of steep declines after Iran test-fired nine missiles Wednesday, including Shahab-3 missiles capable of reaching Israel.

Northwest Airlines Corp. said on Wednesday it will cut 2,500 jobsbecause of high oil prices, and will begin charging $15 to check asingle piece of luggage, and as much as $100 to redeem a frequent-flieraward ticket.

A man has been cited for fatally striking an 11-year-old girl with his Jeep while she was walking near the river with her father in northwest suburban Des Plaines on Tuesday.

With a state budget crisis heating up in Illinois' dog days, the governor will have a hard time cooling off. The Executive Mansion's air conditioning system broke down this week.

A northwestern Illinois man charged in two murders and named as a suspect in six others is heading back to court.

The City Council on Wednesday is discussing a measure to screen ice cream vendors to ensure sex offenders are not allowed to work around children.

The driver of a commercial delivery truck who was kidnapped Monday afternoon at gunpoint in Downers Grove was found in Joliet and his truck turned up Tuesday morning in Chicago.

Clarence Weber Jr. will be returned to Illinois later Wednesday to face murder charges in the death of his estranged wife in north suburban Lincolnshire.

With a Taser pointed at him, a LaPorte man barricaded inside his home grabbed his 2-year-old daughter early Tuesday and used her as a shield.

The Jersey Boys might not have to go cold turkey for too long, if one Chicago alderman has his way.

Mayor Richard M. Daley announced Wednesday that video cameras will be mounted on city street sweepers, in order to snap pictures of parking violators.

In research presented Wednesday at a meeting of the European Society ofHuman Reproduction and Embryology in Spain, scientists found that obese men haveworse sperm than normal-weight men.

Unless money trees start sprouting on the state Capitol lawn, a quick budget solution from this week's special session seems unlikely. Gov. Rod Blagojevich says the budget lawmakers sent him last month has $2 billion more in spending than revenue.

Operation CeaseFire said Tuesday shootings are up in Chicago and will keep rising if the group's funding is again caught in the political crossfire in Springfield. But despite a large downtown rally, the governor isn't making any promises. CBS 2's

President Bush on Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a broad climate-change strategy, saying in a valedictory to summitry that "significant progress" has been made on global warming.

The case of Ed McMahon has shown that you can make millions over a lengthy show business career and still find yourself in foreclosure. Johnny Carson's former "Tonight Show" sidekick owes more than $644,000 in mortgage payments on his Mediterranean

It's been a long journey home for an Illinois soldier. Patrick Madison of Mundelein was injured in Iraq, and is now coming home after spending a few months at Walter Reed Medical Center.