BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — Officials said Thursday that the burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner. Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino Cou...

Mumford & Sons wrapped up a completely unpredictable Grammy Awards with perhaps the most surprising win of the night, taking home album of the year for “Babel.” It was an event that even shocked the London folk-rockers. “We figured we weren't going ...

Money issues continued to dominate the headlines in 2012 in different forms. There was a teacher strike in Community Unit District 300, the threat of teacher strikes elsewhere, new taxes in Elgin, investment in Huntley in the form of a new hospital...

Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever “the world's oldest teenager.” Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Sadly, for others ...

LOS ANGELES — Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge. His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year ca...

Austin David Anderson School: Westminster Christian High School Hometown: Elgin Class: Senior Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Warren Anderson Sponsor: Scott Sevey, guidance counselor Community service: Elgin Evangelical Free Church: Youth Group (Revive), Stud...

NEWTOWN, Conn. — At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in shelterin...