Charlie De Mar

Mar 13, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Charlie De Mar

WHEATON, Ill. (CBS) -- Parents at a west suburban high school rallied Wednesday night, saying several violent fights in the school have them concerned about student safety. They took their concerns to the Wheaton/Warrenville School District 200 Board Wednesday night, and district leaders told them they have made changes to address the issue.

Mar 12, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Charlie De Mar

CHICAGO (CBS) -- One robbery crew has struck 21 different times over just the last few months – targeting plumbing and electrical businesses on the North, Northwest, and West sides of the city. The brazen thieves were even caught on surveillance video, smashing a car into one business to break in. Once inside, the thieves have removed property, including tools and equipment. Work vehicles were targeted as well as businesses, and the thieves have committed armed robberies as well as burglaries.

Mar 11, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Charlie De Mar

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Shalev Biton survived a music festival targeted by Hamas in the attacks on Oct. 7 of last year that led to the Israel-Hamas War – now in its fifth month. Biton said he is not out to change anyone's mind or talk politics, but rather to share with the world his experience of surviving the Oct. 7 attack. Biton took video at the Nova Music Festival in Israel on Oct. 7. Hours later, he woke up to a sound he said that he will never forget.

Feb 29, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Charlie De Mar

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A hack at the company Change Healthcare has crippled pharmacies across the country – in just the latest in a troubling trend in which cyberattacks have affected people's health across the country. A Naperville man has been left pleading for help from his hospital bed. He said when he went to the pharmacy, he was told he would need to pay out of pocket for medicine on which he depends. "They said, 'There's nothing we can do for you,'" said Alan Townsend.

Feb 28, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Charlie De Mar

AT&T cellphone outage has some thinking about future of landlines CHICAGO (CBS) -- Could Illinois soon hang up on the landline? State legislation was passed to pave the way for providers like AT&T to end servicing traditional copper landlines. But with a major cellphone outage last week impacting thousands of AT&T users, some are ringing the alarm on the future use of the landline. Nearly three quarters of adults now live in households without a landline.