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The Chicago Police Department on Thursday said a "media glitch" or "human oversight" could have prevented a missing persons flier for a missing 12-year-old girl from being distributed to local media. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) â The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to contract extensions for young stars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews and defenseman Duncan Keith. Kane and Toews, both 21, led the Blackhawks to the Western Conference finals last season and the team is currently leading the Central Division. Kane and Toews agreed to new five-year deals. Keith, one of the team leaders in minutes played, Full Story »

Cubs acquire RHP and two additional prospects click here for more details. Full Story »

Lance Briggs says he's breathing just fine and his temperature is 98.6, right at normal. As for that sprained left knee? Full Story »

Three masked men make off with cash in suburban robbery. Full Story »

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Health care professionals are now staffing a 24-hour-a-day hot line to answer Illinois residents' questions about swine flu. Full Story »

Can new gun laws really stop the gang violence in Chicago? Mayor Daley and Governor Quinn are betting on it. Full Story »

INDIANAPOLIS (CBS) â A sport-utility vehicle that may have been involved in a police chase has crashed into an Indianapolis day care center, and children were taken away in ambulances. Full Story »

GEORGETOWN, Ill. (AP) - Friends and relatives of U.S. Army Sgt. Kenneth Nichols say the eastern Illinois soldier died Tuesday in Afghanistan. He was promoted just a day earlier. Full Story »

Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest has said that he drank alcohol during games when he was a member of the Chicago Bulls. Full Story »

CHICAGO (STNG) -- A Rogers Park neighborhood man was charged with felony eavesdropping after allegedly taping conversations -- including the voices of officers who arrested him -- without permission while selling art for a $1 Wednesday afternoon in the Loop. Full Story »

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- A federal magistrate judge has delayed until at least Dec. 15 her ruling on a request to grant bail to one of two Chicago men accused of scheming to launch a terrorist attack against the Danish newspaper that published satirical cartoons of the religious figure Mohammed. Full Story »

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- There are more problems with burials and gravesites at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip less than two weeks after the cemetery reopened following an almost four-month shutdown. Full Story »

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Residents of the Chicago Housing Authority's Lathrop Homes want their riverside CHA project maintained for low income residents rather than turned over to for-profit developers at Damen and Diversey. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- If children are on your holiday gift list, beware. More than two dozen toys have been recalled this year for safety reasons. With safety in mind, the American Academy of Pediatrics has prepared a tips list. Some are common sense, but that often gets lost in the holiday bustle. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- China believes it can learn a thing or two about managing health care data from Chicago. A 21-member delegation from China's ministry of health is set to tour Stroger Hospital on Thursday to study how it uses electronic medical records and other computer technology. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- Cook County Clerk David Orr is looking for a few thousand election judges to work the February primary. Orr says nearly 2,000 additional judges are needed for the Feb. 2 election. It takes about 9,000 judges to fully staff the more than 1,900 precincts in suburban Cook County. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicagoan is caught up in the White House party crashers episode and it's not President Barack Obama. Obama friend and Chicagoan Desiree Rogers is the White House social secretary who planned the state dinner where two uninvited guests got in. Full Story »

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Top achievers from more than 700 state high schools have been named Illinois State Scholars. Full Story »

VERNON HILLS, Ill. (AP) -- State health officials have confirmed that water samples taken at The Park retirement community in Vernon Hills were positive for the bacteria that can cause Legionnaires' disease. Full Story »

Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest has said that he drank alcohol during games when he was a member of the Chicago Bulls. "I used to drink Hennessy at halftime," Artest said in an interview with Sporting News. "I (kept it) in my locker. Full Story »

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- A year after then-Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges, a non-profit group is trying to shine a light on state spending. Full Story »

MADISON, Wis. (AP/WBBM) -- The public is getting its chance to sound off on whether Wisconsin should name an official microbe. Full Story »

Poisoned to keep Asian carp out of Great Lakes. Full Story »

To use wheelchair while lesion on leg is treated. Full Story »