School districts across the region are diverging on whether to require students to wear masks when they return to classes next month as parents pressure educators from both sides of the issue. On Monday night, the state's second-largest school syste...

TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares fell Tuesday as worries were growing that a faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus could upend the global economic recovery. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.6% to 27,489.13 in early trading. South Korea's Kospi...

During his 32 years as a PGA Tour caddie there have been plenty of nerve-racking moments for Darien's Scott Gneiser. At the top of the list are certainly the seconds before David Toms buried a 12-foot putt to defeat Phil Mickelson by a stroke at the...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis cracked down Friday on the spread of the old Latin Mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics who immediately decried it as an attack on them and the ancie...

The American West is baking, burning and drying in intertwined extreme weather. Four sets of numbers explain how bad it is now, while several others explain why it got this bad. The West is going through 'œthe trifecta of an epically dry year follow...

NEW YORK (AP) - An Iranian intelligence officer and three alleged members of an Iranian intelligence network have been charged in Manhattan with plotting to lure a U.S. resident and human rights activist from New York to Iran, authorities said Tuesd...

Several small, downstate Illinois counties are surpassing the collar counties for new COVID-19 infections, a trend triggering warnings from public health officials. Adams County, in western Illinois with a population of 65,435, recorded 52 new COVID...