Elgin Area School District U-46 is preparing for the 2020-21 school year with new leaders stepping into top administrator roles. Some of these professionals have recently joined the district, or have been promoted from within U-46 to serve a new rol...

TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares slipped Thursday after sobriety set in on Wall Street, and the U.S. Federal Reserve minutes laid out challenges for the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped 0.8% in early trading to 2...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A white police officer who slammed a Black man to the ground and broke his wrist denies wrongdoing, saying he mistakenly believed the man had an outstanding arrest warrant and used force because the man resisted, the officer's a...

Sustaining energy through four days of a political convention is never easy. It's even more challenging during this, the first virtual convention. On the second night of the Democratic National Convention, party leaders tried to blend its past with ...

Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after the S&P 500 logged a fresh all-time high. Japan's Nikkei 225 index edged higher after the country reported its exports fell 19% in July from a year earlier. Markets in Hong Kong were closed due to a trop...

NEW YORK (AP) - Anxious Democrats from every corner of America cemented Joe Biden's status as their best hope to defeat President Donald Trump Tuesday night, formally nominating the former vice president in an online-only convention to face what the...

Project Backpack, a community effort to provide backpacks and supplies for families of Elgin Community College District 509, looked a little different this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Elgin Community College was unable to host the event as ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) - Forty-year-old Antonio Valenzuela's death didn't spark widespread protests like George Floyd's. In fact, the police killing of Valenzuela drew little attention outside the American Southwestern city just north of the U.S.-Mex...