West Aurora graduate Lauren Carlini's collegiate volleyball career hit another high spot recently. Carlini, a 6-1 junior setter at Wisconsin, was named the Big Ten Conference setter of the year. Carlini tallied the most setting assists among Big Ten...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Six people were arraigned Tuesday in the kidnapping of two college students who investigators said were forcibly restrained for more than 40 hours and repeatedly beaten until a police SWAT team rescued them. One victim was sho...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Two New York college students, one a current member of the football team and the other a former member, were rescued by a SWAT team a day after being abducted and held hostage, police said. Police on Monday provided no possibl...

Having spent 30 years on the football coaching staff, including the first 26 as head coach, at Batavia High School Mike Gaspari realized the time was right to step aside a year ago. "I could have stayed at Batavia forever," said Gaspari. "However, t...

Most of the 14 people killed at a holiday banquet in San Bernardino County, California, worked in the same county public health department as the man who showed up with his wife and sprayed the hall with gunfire. An official list of the dead was rel...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - The latest on the mass shooting at a social service facility in San Bernardino, California (all times local): 9 p.m. Muslims gathering at one of Southern California's largest mosques have denounced Wednesday's massacre,...

Matt Allen, Hinsdale Central The third Allen brother to commit to Michigan State University, the 6-foot-3, 275-pound senior grew into his role as a leader on the offensive line and the entire team in his second varsity season. Allen used his tremen...