Members of the Elgin Lions Club are conducting their 34th annual Rose Day. They will be selling one dozen long-stemmed roses for $15 for delivery on March 28-30. Purchasers will have fresh flowers for celebrating the Easter holiday, sending to a lo...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) - On a snowboard and skis, Ester Ledecka is a history-making Olympic gold medalist. One of the surprising breakout stars of the Winter Games, the Czech pulled double-duty on the slopes in Pyeongchang and became the firs...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) - The Latest on the Pyeongchang Olympics (all times local): 12:40 a.m. Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic won the second leg of an unprecedented Winter Olympics double, taking the gold medal in snowboarding's parallel ...

They toiled through the dog days in muggy gymnasiums last summer. They've been practicing since Nov. 6. They've been playing games since Nov. 20. They've battled through holiday tournaments and conference rivalry games, spent endless hours masterin...

Philanthropist and omnipresent fundraiser Jack Shales of Elgin was remembered this week as "a guy who would reach into his pocket to be the change he wanted," a Marine who learned never to retreat, a model of Christian life - and perhaps the most fa...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Critics cite a state senator's dramatic resignation in highlighting the work to be done to change the culture of sexual misconduct in the California Legislature. Sen. Tony Mendoza succumbed to months of mounting tension ove...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) - It seems a brazen choice, even for North Korea. As South Korea's liberal president seeks to use the Olympics to improve ties, North Korea has chosen to send the alleged mastermind of two attacks that killed 50 South K...

After the Blackhawks defeated Ottawa on Wednesday, Patrick Kane went home, flipped on the TV and started watching the USA-Canada women's gold-medal game. The U.S. prevailed thanks in large part to a late third-period goal by Monique Lamoureux-Morand...