Winner News

American Idol season 8 winner Kris Allen and his wife, Katy, welcomed their first child on July 30. It is a boy named Oliver.

On June 19, rock music sensation Rick Springfield chatted via telephone with Digital Journal about his forthcoming New York concert at The Paramount, as well as his new documentary and upcoming novel.

On May 24, veteran singer-songwriter Marc Cohn chatted via telephone with Digital Journal about his forthcoming tour dates in New York.

Sydney - The Packing Room Prize winner and the Archibald Prize finalists were announced at the Art Gallery of NSW today in Sydney, Australia.

Oslo - Archbishop Desmond Tutu and two other Nobel Peace Prize winners have written to the Nobel committee, protesting the 2012 award to the European Union. They say the EU portrays the total opposite of peace.

Upper Marlboro - A surveillance video released by a convenience store in Maryland may show one of the two record-breaking Powerball jackpot lottery winners.

San Bernardino - A disabled 69-year-old grandmother from California has finally come forward to claim her $23 million lottery winnings after forgetting she had a lottery ticket.

Phoenix - A CBS News affiliate is calling the presidential election for President Barack Obama weeks ahead of the Nov. 6 election. The network mistakenly posted the presidential election results, which had the incumbent win with 43 percent of the vote.

Some of Whitney Kropp's classmates played a cruel joke on her by electing her to the high school's homecoming court in West Branch Michigan.

Philadelphia - At an Occupy Philadelphia event, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange interviews Pullitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges on the state of the media today.