An Elgin Area School District U-46 school board member and administrator are contenders for Elgin's Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award to be given out at the city's Prayer Breakfast Saturday. As part of the city's MLK celebrations, four Larki...

TOKYO (AP) - Share prices were mostly lower in Asia on Wednesday despite Wall Street's extended winning streak. Chinese shares were buoyed by surging oil prices. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 0.1 percent to 23,816.31 and the Kospi in ...

SYDNEY (AP) - Former world No. 1 Angelique Kerber won her sixth consecutive match of the new season, beating second-seeded Venus Williams 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 on Tuesday in a Sydney International match delayed for two hours by a thunderstorm. Kerber, who d...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Christmas Eve, receptionist Kala Ronda planned to cook rice and beans for her husband and three kids. "But when I came home, we didn't have water running," said Ronda, 36, who lives in San Juan's Las Lomas neighborhood. Th...

Blaine "Gene" Wohlert, 54, has spent his entire career - 32 years - teaching physical education to elementary students in Elgin Area School District U-46. A resident of South Elgin, Wohlert has taught at Woodland Heights, Hanover Countryside and Ott...

The group opening an Elgin charter school is close to finalizing a contract to hire a principal, officials said. In October, a state panel sanctioned the Elgin Math and Science Academy charter school primarily to serve at-risk students in the area. ...