The Daily Herald Business Ledger has announced the names of 69 companies in 3 categories of competition that are being honored as the 2021 Best Places to Work in Illinois. This statewide survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize ...

BOCHNIA, Poland (AP) - European countries scrambled Monday to tamp down a surge in COVID-19 cases and ramp up vaccinations, hoping to spare hospitals from becoming overwhelmed by the pandemic's latest deadly wave of infections. The crush of coronavi...

Incumbent Laurie Donahue, one of 11 candidates running for four, 4-year terms in Indian Prairie Unit District 204, responds to the Daily Herald candidate questionnaire for the April 6, 2021, local election. The candidates are: incumbents Laurie Dona...

LOS ANGELES -- California's death toll during the coronavirus pandemic has topped 49,000, even as the rates of new infections and hospitalizations continue to plummet across the state. California reported another 408 deaths Sunday, bringing the tota...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican's top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee. A United Methodist Church bishop in the West African nation of Sierra Leone die...

NEW YORK (AP) - Lawrence Byrne, the New York Police Department's top lawyer during a fraught period that followed a court ban on officers frisking people without cause, the chokehold death of Eric Garner and the revelation that police spied on law-a...

A total of 73 companies are being honored as the 2020 Best Places to Work in Illinois, sponsored by the Daily Herald Business Ledger in partnership with the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, MRA - The Management Association, and Small Business Adv...

The head of a statewide medical association on Monday expressed concern for physicians treating the growing number of COVID-19 patients and medical equipment shortages, but suburban hospital officials said they are in good shape in both areas right ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who recently returned from China showed up with coughs but were not placed in isolation. A doctor tending to those patients has stopped coming to work, and h...