After 17 years of teaching art to elementary school students, Heather Lass finally knows what it feels like to be recognized as an artist. Lass helped illustrate a children's book by New Jersey-based author and artist Eric Gibbons titled "If Picasso...

Approximately 300 Elgin Area School District U-46 students will be a little warmer this holiday season thanks to the generosity of AT&T Pioneers, a group of volunteers consisting of current, former, and retired AT&T employees. Students took part in ...

About 350 South Elgin High School students organized a march Thursday in solidarity with "Black Lives Matter" - a national movement advocating equal treatment of minorities by law enforcement. The students' march was prompted by the Aug. 9 police sh...

WASHINGTON - The national fundraising drive known as "Giving Tuesday" is having a growing impact for nonprofit groups, with nearly $46 million raised for charity over a 24-hour period, according to initial numbers released Wednesday. The Giving Tues...

WASHINGTON - The House rushed through a last-minute measure Wednesday to extend a massive package of expired tax breaks for banks, investment firms, commuters and NASCAR track owners. The bill would enable millions of businesses and individuals to c...

Cyber Monday sales growth is slowing as consumers embrace the convenience of online shopping, spreading out their purchases instead of being lured by one-day specials. Internet holiday shopping rose 8.1 percent on Cyber Monday yesterday, typically t...

WASHINGTON - In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downr...

NEW YORK - Energy and health-care companies led major stock indexes higher on Tuesday, even as crude oil resumed its slide. General Motors rose after reporting stronger sales, and Biogen, a biotech company, soared following news that its drug for Al...