Time for some random thoughts. • Congratulations to the Bears for recording their first victory of the season, 22-20, over the Oakland Raiders, who were favored. I am always tough on Jay Cutler, but I freely admit the Bears would not have won that ...

The numbers jump off the page: Nine dead on an Oregon college campus, 12 in a theater in Aurora, Colorado. Thirteen soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood, Texas; 32 people at Virginia Tech; 13 at a community center in Binghamton, New York. Twenty-six ...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) - The latest on the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon (all times local): 4:10 p.m. President Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week's shooting at a...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) - Some faculty, staff and students embraced or brought flowers to a makeshift memorial Monday as they returned to an Oregon community college for the first time since a gunman killed eight students and a teacher. Although classes...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) - A pastor whose daughter survived last week's deadly rampage in a college classroom told his congregation on Sunday that "violence will not have the last word" in this southern Oregon timber town. More than 100 people gathered t...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) - The latest on the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon (all times local): 12:30 a.m. The condition of one of the three shooting victims brought to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend has improved to...

Update Paula Pedersen's son Sean spent two years at Harper College that ended with his giving the commencement address there, before going to Columbia University in New York to major in sociology. Thanks to his hard work there, he's now on a fu...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) - The 26-year-old killer who gunned down classmates at an Oregon college spared a student and gave the "lucky one" something to deliver to authorities, according to the mother of a student who witnessed the rampage. Others weren'...

Adults only Die-hard fans of the Lifetime series "Drop Dead Diva" or the TLC talk show "All About Sex" won't want to miss comedian Margaret Cho performing "The psyCHO Tour" on Saturday at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St., Chicago. $29.50-$...

Gerardo Campos grew up watching his parents working backbreaking jobs nearly round the clock in Chicago. But his family's move to Hoffman Estates when he was 14 led to graduation from Hoffman Estates High School, a semester at Harper College and the...