Lissette Beltran planned for a career as a patent lawyer. A senior at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Beltran is in the honors law program working toward a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. After interning with NASA, she...

The new head of the U.S. Army's 85th Support Command, which is based in Arlington Heights, is Brig. Gen. Kris A. Belanger, who is coming from her last assignment with the 80th Training Command in Richmond, Virginia. Belanger, who currently resides i...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The sky was darkening Thursday afternoon as 10-year-old Sarah Jimenez laid out three plastic buckets on her grandmother's patio in hopes of capturing rainwater. "We can use it to at least flush the toilets," she told her...

"I was in favor of it at the time," Bev Jaszczurowski, a mother of three students in Elgin Area School District U-46, says of a 2004 effort to leave the district that was overwhelmingly supported by Bartlett voters. "But here's the thing: Illinois h...

LONDON (AP) - Global stock markets were little changed Wednesday as investors took to the sidelines ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's announcement of the results of its meeting. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, Germany's DAX was down 0.1 percent at 12,55...

RENK, South Sudan (AP) - "They told us we'd only be here for six days, and that was six years ago," Ramadan Wani says. Anxiously rubbing his hands together, the 46-year-old sits hunched on a makeshift stool in his tattered house in Payuer, a displac...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Two Iranian-Americans serving 10-year prison sentences on spying charges in Iran should be immediately freed and paid restitution, a United Nations panel said on Monday, calling their "arbitrary" detention part of ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Hurricane Maria intensified into a dangerous Category 5 storm and pounded the small island of Dominica as it surged into the eastern Caribbean on Monday night, and forecasters warned it might become even stronger. The st...