HOUSTON -- Lawyers for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford and two of his former executives on Thursday tried to shoot down claims by a fraud examiner that their clients took part in the massive Ponzi scheme that authorities say helped bilk in...

Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has been on a tear lately, vetoing legislation and rewriting it to suit his purposes. That typically is a governor's prerogative. Sometimes the revisions and rejections are for the best, but last week, it seemed, Quinn's pu...

The emotional roller coaster in Elgin Area School District U-46's fight for state funding appears to have come to a screeching halt. Gov. Pat Quinn Tuesday vetoed legislation that would change the school funding formula for U-46, which believes it i...

General Growth Properties Inc., the second-largest U.S. mall operator, will resolve a dispute with Howard Hughes's heirs through an appraisal of property in Nevada, a judge ruled. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper said today that the heirs can pur...

Barrington bull; Vandals hurled a rock through a front door window at a home on the 100 block of Raymond Avenue around 3 a.m. June 27. The rock landed in the living room. A female resident sleeping on the couch woke when the glass broke and s...

Remember when you were a kid and dividing a candy bar never quite seemed fair? How you always felt that someone got the bigger half? Something similar's going on downstate, as a bill that would help Elgin Area School District U-46 recoup state fundi...

The fight for a funding fix has been an emotional roller coaster for Elgin Area School District U-46 officials. Despite the closing of books at the end of the fiscal year today, that fight doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon. Legislation that w...

Elgin Area School District U-46 has released a list of the mobile classrooms that will be boarded up next school year due to increased class sizes. With the exception of Laurel Hill Elementary in Hanover Park, each of the 21 sites featuring trailers...