For weeks, suburban schools have been abuzz with a flurry of activity as officials prepare for the yearly onslaught of eager young learners scurrying about hallways and classrooms. Getting a school ready is a daunting feat requiring round-the-clock ...

More than 38,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade returned to Elgin Area School District U-46 schools Wednesday for the first day of classes. Preschool students will have their first day of school on Wednesday, Aug. 21. This school year, ...

ATLANTA (AP) - A federal grand jury in Atlanta on Tuesday indicted reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley on charges including tax evasion, alleging among other things that they tried to hide their income from "Chrisley Knows Best" from th...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. consumer prices rose 0.3% in July, pushed higher by more expensive gas, medical care and housing. The consumer price index increased 1.8% compared with a year earlier, up from 1.6% in June, the Labor Department said Tuesday. E...

Students across the region will return to new additions, modernized learning centers, and other facility improvements as school construction projects wrap up before classes start this month. Here's a sampling of what some districts have been doing o...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation's deadliest mass shootings. How long those types of laws will stand is...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct information attributed to an Elgin Area School District U-46 spokeswoman. New students won't be the only fresh faces showing up at Round Lake Unit District 116's Pleviak Kindergarten Center ...