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Gay couples in the Chicago area can get married immediately, a federal judge ruled Friday, asking “why should we wait” on a law passed by the state legislature last year that mandated same-sex marriages begin in June.

America’s figure skating team on Friday diplomatically defended the controversial calls that separated the top two winners in the women's event, while questioning the system that initiated the controversy.

Raising wages. It's the topic we're all talking about, and one county in New Jersey is walking the walk. 

It appears Justin Bieber has a lot at stake in the men's ice hockey semi-finals Friday.At least that's the joke in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb where Bieber's image is plastered across a giant billboard, right between Blackhawk players Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews.

The Obama administration has sent a message to the nation's bankers: Even though the sale of marijuana is a federal crime, they can provide service to this new industry without fear of prosecution, but only if the bankers follow a detailed list of guidelines.

A middle-school football coach accused of abducting and murdering a 10-year-old Missouri girl plans to plead not guilty.

Thieves pulled a prehistoric pinch this week in the Utah wilderness, prying up and making off with a set of dinosaur footprints believed to be 190 million years old.

Tens of millions of Americans are carrying some $1.3 trillion in student debt as the cost of higher education has soared and needs and non-loan financial aid has dried up over the past quarter of a century. In addition, more than 7 million students and former students are in default on their college loans, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Detroit revealed its historic plan to emerge from under $18 billion in debt Friday, laying the groundwork for what’s expected to be a long, bitter battle with creditors, retirees and bondholders over the biggest municipal bankruptcy ever.

\An Indiana man discovers a long-lost love letter in an old, rusted, blue 1959 Chevy Bel-Air. WAVE's Scott Adkins reports.