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Police Called In Kentucky, Louisville Fan Fight Between Elderly At Dialysis...
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP/ CBS St. Louis) —The bad blood between Kentucky and Louisville fans boiled over this week at a Kentucky dialysis center when one patient couldn’t wait to call a winner. Georgetown...
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Rothstein Files: 4 X-Factors In The 2012 Final Four
By Jon Rothstein » More Columns 1. DARIUS MILLER, KENTUCKY The lone senior in the Wildcats rotation was a driving force in Kentucky’s wins over Iowa State and Indiana and is the only player on this...
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Volunteers March To End The Violence
CHICAGO (CBS) – Anti-violence activists walked door to door Friday night with a clear message. About 40 volunteers — many were parents with their own stories of sorrow — gathered near 65th and Mozart....
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Chicago Broke All Sorts Of Warmth Records In March — Except One
CHICAGO (STMW) - Chicago did not, it turns out, break the record for the warmest day ever in March: 88 degrees, set in 1986. But we obliterated just about every other record for the month, which will...
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West Side Residents March For Trayvon, Other Violence Victims
CHICAGO (CBS) – The pastor of a West Side church says 57 young lives have been lost to gun violence in Chicago since the beginning of the school year, so he’s calling on his congregation to show their...
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Religious Leaders To March Against Youth Violence
CHICAGO (CBS) — Palm Sunday marked the beginning of Holy Week on the Christian calendar, and now, political and religious leaders are using the sacred message to combat youth violence by holding a...
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AAA: March Gas Prices Were ‘Pure Madness’ In Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — In what will surely come as no surprise, AAA says Chicago area gas prices climbed to new heights in March. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, the motor club is calling the...
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A Week Later, No Arrests In Shootings Of NW Indiana Girls
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (CBS) – Anti-violence demonstrators gathered Monday in the Northwest Indiana city where two girls were struck by bullets last week as they played video games – a crime for which...
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Kentucky Ends 14-Year Drought, Wins National Championship
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Doron Lamb scored 22 points, and Kentucky won its eighth national championship, holding off Kansas for a 67-59 victory Monday night. The Wildcats (38-2) led by as many as 18 points...
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Occupy Chicago Protesters March Through Downtown
CHICAGO (CBS) – Now that spring is here, the Occupy Chicago protesters are back. Several hundred people participated in a Saturday march through downtown streets that ended in Grant Park, adjacent to...
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Report: March Was 8.6 Degrees Hotter Than Average Nationwide
CHICAGO (CBS) — Now that we’ve put our shorts and flip flops back in storage for the time being, federal figures show temperatures this March were 8.6 degrees above normal for most of the country. As...
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North Suburban Students To Rally Against Use Of The ‘R-Word’
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (CBS) – Students from a north suburban high school are taking part in a march and rally Friday afternoon against the use of the “r-word.” WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports...
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Parents Rally Downtown For Longer School Day
CHICAGO (CBS) – As 200 students and parents touted a longer school day and other initiatives on Saturday at a rally hosted by the advocacy group “Stand for Children” at Roosevelt University, a small...
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May Day Protesters Block Bank Entrances Before Rally Through Loop
UPDATED 05/01/12 – 6:00 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — About 75 Occupy Chicago protesters held sit-ins outside at least two Bank of America branches in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, before joining a much larger...
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Nurses March To Daley Plaza To Rally For ‘The 99 Percent’
UPDATED 05/18/12 3:30 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS)–Nurses from Chicago and across the country held a contained, peaceful rally Friday at Daley Plaza over the initial concerns of city officials who are hosting...
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Impromptu Protest March Slows Traffic In Loop, 2 Arrested
CHICAGO (CBS) – NATO protesters, including Occupy Chicago members, briefly shut down the Michigan Avenue bridge and slowed traffic around the Loop in an impromptu march following a peaceful rally held...
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Jesse Jackson Leads March For Slain Teen
CHICAGO (CBS) — There are calls for witness protection and presidential intervention to deal with the epidemic of youth violence in Chicago. They came during a march to honor the memory of 15-year-old...
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Cure For Boredom: March’s Best Events
YEAH! I AM SO PROUD OF ME. (Credit: Me) By Mason Johnson I don’t really want to be writing this. I’d rather be doing something else. BUT THERE’S NOTHING ELSE GOING ON. Right now, Thursday morning,...
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Five Things: A Renewed Rivalry, Niagara Eagles Eliminated, And Elite Stag...
By Andrew Kahn The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference held their men’s and women’s basketball tournaments at the MassMutualCenter in Springfield, MA, this past weekend. The neutral site served as host...
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Five Things: Belmont Punches Ticket, A Buzzer Beater, And Hoosiers Become Big...
By Andrew Kahn March Madness, in a certain respect, officially got underway this past weekend as some of the conferences crowned their champions. While some teams will now be sweating it out on...
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