KIEV, Ukraine - Protesters advanced on police lines in the heart of the Ukrainian capital on Thursday, prompting government snipers to shoot back and kill scores of people in the country's deadliest day since the breakup of the Soviet Union a quarte...

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's protest leaders and the president they aim to oust called a truce Wednesday, just hours after the military raised fears of a widespread crackdown with a vow to defeat "terrorists" responsible for seizing weapons and burning...

NEW YORK - Stocks fell Wednesday as investors were left uneasy by news that Federal Reserve policymakers were willing to start raising short-term interest rates sooner than previously expected. The market was mixed most of the day, then turned lower...

A complaint filed this week with the Federal Election Commission accuses 8th Congressional District Republican candidate Manju Goel of illegally mixing the finances of her campaign committee with those of an Indian American SuperPAC and a private bu...

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks closed mostly higher Tuesday as traders got back to work after a long holiday weekend. It was a fairly quiet day for investors, who had relatively little news to react to. Health care stocks rose more than the rest of the mar...

Jacobs' girls basketball team came out with that old "nothing to lose" attitude Tuesday night and, for one half anyway, made life miserable for top-seeded South Elgin in the first semifinal of the Class 4A Jacobs regional. But the Storm unleashed a ...

The first thing the Streamwood girls basketball team wanted to accomplish this week has been taken care of. Now, the Sabres would like to reach goal No. 2 of the week. Streamwood was able to shake off pesky Dundee-Crown, defeating the Chargers 60-51...

Two words that would trigger alarm in anyone ring across the police radio. "Shots fired." Within minutes, a SWAT team is on the scene. A dispatcher relays that a subject has been shot and is in custody. Actors playing the role of victims are carried...

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia - Winless in the last three years in two-man bobsledding, Alexander Zubkov picked the perfect time and place to put that streak to an emphatic end. At the Olympics. On home ice. No one was even close, either. The 39-year-old...

SOCHI, Russia - They have trained together for 17 years. And for much of that time, under the rules of ice dance, they've not been allowed to stray farther than two arms' length from each other. But on Sunday at the Sochi Olympics, Meryl Davis and C...