NEW YORK (AP) - Harper Lee has died, but the conversation about her life and work has only begun. "I think the retrospective will be more useful than what was said during her lifetime, because there are a lot of things we can get down to that were i...

Harper Lee was an ordinary woman as stunned as anybody by the extraordinary success of "To Kill a Mockingbird." "It was like being hit over the head and knocked cold," Lee - who died Friday at age 89, according to publisher HarperCollins - said duri...

NEW YORK (AP) - Harper Lee has died, but the conversation about her life and work has only begun. "I think the retrospective will be more useful than what was said during her lifetime, because there are a lot of things we can get down to that were i...

NEW YORK (AP) - Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, has died. She was 89. Lee ...

Harper Lee, the American writer whose book “To Kill a Mockingbird” was voted the best novel of the 20th century and became a classroom standard for the study of racial injustice in the U.S., has died. She was 89. Her death was reported by the New Yo...

This story has been clarified to say tuition will rise 4.8%. While the total cost to a student -- including tuition and fees -- will rise 4.2%, the increase to the tuition itself will be 4.8%. Also, the box with the story has been updated to sho...

The first in what will likely be many lengthy school board discussions about Barrington Area Unit School District 220 schools starting later drew around 300 district parents Tuesday night. Up for discussion were three proposals made by Input 220, an...

An Algonquin area school district's initiative has prompted legislation calling on community colleges to make courses available to high school students for free. State Rep. David McSweeney, a Barrington Hills Republican, has proposed the measure pus...

Representatives of more than 45 businesses and organizations attended a breakfast Harper College hosted Wednesday to encourage the business community's involvement in the Palatine school's Promise program. Attendees learned how they could participa...