GUATEMALA CITY -- Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to...

"What I am trying to do is honor real heroes," said Joe Cantafio of Barrington, a musician and the president of the non-profit organization Forgotten Heroes, Inc. "A real hero isn't a guy who can dunk a basketball or score a touchdown. It's the guy ...

LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif. -- Zachary Freeman loved to fish, dirt bike and camp -- but most of all, he loved to watch off-road truck racing in the vast Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles. That love would cost the 24-year-old pipe welder and seven ot...

Ironically, the Taste of Roselle is a big part of what nourishes the village. Of course it's an annual favorite for fest-goers from across the suburbs who visit for food, live music, a carnival and craft show. But proceeds from the festival help pur...

First it was a group of neurosurgeons who saved Matthew Leone's life after he was left for dead following a brutal attack last month in Chicago. Now, it's fellow rockers like Billy Corgan stepping up from a tightknit Chicago music community and beyo...

The recent shuttering of the Road House and Main Event Elgin raises the question: what's next for this prominent downtown site? "It's been dramatically altered," said Elgin City Manager Sean Stegall. "The question is what is the highest and best use...

The days of big spending for summer festivals might be gone, but that doesn't mean visitors to Summer Celebration in Vernon Hills will be shortchanged on entertainment. As always, music will be the heartbeat of the popular free festival this weekend...

NEW YORK -- George Steinbrenner, whose big wallet and win-at-all-cost attitude whipped the New York Yankees into a billion-dollar sports empire, died Tuesday. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4. Steinbrenner had a heart attack, was take...

Susan Lancaster has a passion for Bloomingdale. As a lifelong resident and daughter of Viola Morrisroe, Bloomingdale's first and so far only female village president, Lancaster feels the town's pulse as she walks through its parks, shops in its stor...