DUBLIN, Ohio — Tiger Woods withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday as he recovers from back surgery that has kept him out of golf for nearly three months. It will be the second U.S. Open, and sixth major, he has missed because of injury over the la...

Can hiring lobbyists help suburban school districts influence education policy and bring home more tax dollars? It's a question two of the suburbs' biggest school districts are pondering in the wake of proposed legislation to overhaul state funding ...

The members of the Elgin Teachers Association collected more than 80 boxes of food donations for the Northern Illinois Food Bank over 4 days. All the food was donated, collected and delivered for pickup by ETA members. The food was collected at mem...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Peter Eastwood, hired last year to expand into more insurance niches, is pushing into travel coverage in the latest challenge to American International Group Inc., his former employer. Eastwood's specialty insurance unit wi...

COLLBRAN, Colo. - Rescue teams failed to find any sign Monday of three men missing after a ridge saturated with rain collapsed, sending mud sliding for 3 miles in a remote part of western Colorado. Clancy Nichols, 51, a county road and bridge employ...

NEW YORK - Former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel's total pay fell 35 percent to $13 million in his last year at the helm as the company's board revamped compensation plans amid complaints from shareholders that he was paid too much, according to a regu...

Stocks got off to a good start Thursday and held onto their gains, carving out a modest increase for the second day in a row. Amid a relatively slow week of trading, thin on major economic news and leading into the Memorial Day weekend, investors dr...

Elgin Area School District U-46 may join a growing number of districts switching from textbooks to tablets and other such digital devices in classrooms. The district's Citizens' Advisory Council curriculum committee is studying a one-to-one technolo...