Updated: 3:32 PM Even men with high blood pressure apparently benefit from a few drinks now and then.

Updated: 3:30 PM While the majority of Americans oppose legalizing same-sex marriage, people younger than 30 have consistently been more supportive of it than their elders.

Updated: 3:28 PM How about receiving $200 or an all terrain vehicle for hunting deer?

Updated: 3:26 PM More people are filing for bankruptcy.

Posted: 3:06 PM Despite a problem with the jury, the state murder trial of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols is proceeding.

Updated: 3:03 PM The Opportunity rover has failed in its first try at driving out of a crater it's been exploring since landing on Mars two months ago.

Updated: 3:01 PM While not condemning Israel's attack, the Bush administration is expressing concern over the assassination of a founder of the Palestinian group Hamas.

Updated: 2:52 PM Gov. Rod Blagojevich Monday announced he will dedicate $2.2 billion over four years for school construction and upkeep next year.

Updated: 1:45 PM We made the decision to go, but some didn't think the call to duty was necessary.

Updated: 1:47 PM A former worker saves his old employer from burning down.

Updated: 11:50 PM Is the West Side Alive project dead?

Updated: 5:19 PM A long-time top aide to former Gov. George Ryan pleaded innocent to charges of bid-rigging in the multi-million-dollar expansion of Chicago's McCormick Place.

Updated: 5:06 PM Republican Jack Ryan says if his opponent in the U.S. Senate race had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.

Updated: 4:51 PM Trading in the old school bus for a tractor.

Updated: 4:47 PM Seven area fire departments battled a blaze in roscoe Friday morning.

Updated: 5:33 PM President Bush marked the anniversary Friday by urging resolve in the war against terrorism and saying it is "the duty of every government to fight and destroy this threat to our people."

Updated: 4:19 PM The Illinois Supreme Court said Thursday a Chicago woman whose husband killed himself may sue the state-employed psychiatrist and counselor who declined to hospitalize him.

Updated: 11:26 AM Animal cruelty and neglect charges against a Rockford woman who had over seventy animals on her property have been dropped.

Updated: 8:44 PM Child advocates say inadequate school funding and a lack of family support are causing poor performance in some Illinois schools.

Updated: 4:50 PM County considers impact fees to help cash-strapped schools.

Updated: 3:55 PM The presidential campaign has months to go, but the tone has already been set and it's not pleasant.

Updated: 3:53 PM Winnebago County sheriff's officials are searching for a third car connected to a fatal accident on March 3.

Updated: 3:39 PM A year after the start of the Iraq war, new polls show how divided Americans are over Iraq.

Updated: 2:45 PM The Transportation Security Administration is defending a computerized passenger screening program.

Updated: 6:50 PM Illinois residents have a chance to put a personal touch on this year's State Fair.