TOKYO (AP) - Global shares were mostly higher on Friday after Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.2 percent as the U.S. dollar strengthened against the yen. Chinese markets were lifted by a report of higher corporate profits. Looking ahead, investors ...

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - Roger Federer was tested before beating 28th-ranked Adrian Mannarino 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the Swiss Indoors quarterfinals on Friday. The top-seeded Swiss saved two break points when trailing 3-2 in the decisive set, including w...

Industrial investment is expected to continue its healthy run into 2018, as strong leasing, construction and investment sales fuel the market, according to a recent Real Capital Markets/SIOR investment sentiment report. A landslide number of investo...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Pickup trucks helped Ford Motor Co. to a strong finish in the third quarter despite lower global sales. The Dearborn-based automaker's net income rose 63 percent to $1.6 billion in the July-September period. The earnings of 39...

TOKYO (AP) - Shares in Asia posted strong gains early Friday, tracking the upbeat session overnight on Wall Street. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.0 percent to 21,957.44 as the U.S. dollar strengthened against the yen, boosting exporters' shares....

This weekend Scarecrow Trail: 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily through Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the Morton Arboretum, 4100 Route 53, Lisle. Nature-themed scarecrows created by local Scout troops line Meadow Lake Trail. $9-$14. mortonarb.org. Cosley Zoo's Pumpk...

HONG KONG (AP) - Asian shares were drifting Thursday as Wall Street's retreat from recent record highs and a widely awaited European Central Bank meeting gave investors reason to pause. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged 0.2 per...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) - Just a month ago, Iraq's Kurds were celebrating their symbolic vote for independence as a historic step toward their decades-old dream of statehood, with enough energy reserves to guarantee generations of prosperity. But instead o...

DENVER (AP) - Scientists say they have more evidence that an increase in earthquakes on the Colorado-New Mexico border since 2001 has been caused by wells that inject wastewater from oil and gas production back underground, similar to human-caused q...

MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey (AP) - Peter Hirschmann has often recounted his own story of fleeing Germany as a teenager to escape Adolf Hitler's persecution of the Jews, then joining the U.S. Army to fight the Nazis. But the 92-year-old started to cry as h...