MIAMI (AP) - Florida residents picked the shelves clean of bottled water and lined up at gas stations Thursday as an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Dorian threatened to broadside the state over Labor Day weekend. Leaving lighter-than-expect...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Leaders from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border told thousands of people gathered in a baseball stadium in El Paso Wednesday that love will triumph over hatred in the wake of a mass shooting by a man who authorities believe t...

Friday Funday: 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 9, at Vogelei Park, 650 W. Higgins Road, Hoffman Estates. Children's entertainment. Bring a picnic, play on the playground or splash on the spray pad. Singer Animal Farm will perform. Free. heparks.org. Gurn...

There's a rock in a parking lot in Roselle that has a fan club. It has a Facebook page and a follower base of 11,244 as of Monday morning. It has an address, sort of. And it attracts paparazzi almost as well as it attracts cars. It's called the Ro...

This weekend McHenry County Fair: 10 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2-3, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at the McHenry County Fairgrounds, 11900 Country Club Drive, Woodstock. Livestock shows, agricultural and 4-H exhibits, entert...

Social media may be mighty, but social clubs can be just as influential. This week, a four-day party in Algonquin — the 58th annual Founders' Days celebration — keenly illustrates that point with a full schedule of events and attractions. “In 1961, ...

It was lunchtime when 2 1/2-year-old Fletcher Hartz opened the door to the elevator at his grandparents' home in Little Rock, Arkansas. His mother, Nicole Hartz, stood a few feet away in the kitchen making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She did...