When St. John's Lutheran School opened its doors for Elgin children, Johnson was president. Not Lyndon Johnson, but Andrew Johnson, because his predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, had been assassinated just a year before. The school's present-day 112 chil...

TOKYO (AP) - Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Tuesday ahead of Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's testimony to Congress. Japan's Nikkei 225 index gained 0.6 percent to 20,195.48 on expectations the yen will weaken further against the dollar as...

The Elgin Woman's Club has awarded two $1,500 scholarships to graduating students from Elgin Area School District U-46's Larkin and Elgin high schools who are pursuing careers in the field of health occupations. The 130-year-old organization contin...

SMEDEREVO, Serbia (AP) - A giant Chinese red flag flutters on a pole where an American flag used to fly at a steel mill in this dusty industrial Serbian town. The company logos of U.S. Steel are faded on the huge chimneys stacks, replaced by those o...

MIAMI (AP) - Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Aaron Judge have become the face of baseball as a gleaming, modernist ballpark and a city known for its Latino culture host the All-Star Game for the first time. After decades of falling behind, the sport fi...

LONDON (AP) - Rafael Nadal kept getting pushed to the brink of defeat. He kept resisting. He dropped the first two sets, then won the next two. He erased two match points in the riveting fifth set's 10th game, then another two in its 20th game. Only...

LONDON (AP) - The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): ___ 7:50 p.m. Milos Raonic is back into the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, a year after he lost in the final to Andy Murray. The sixth-seeded Canadian defeated Alexander Zverev 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 7...