Barrington's softball program recently announced its 26th player to make a verbal commitment to a Division I college team. And this one, like the past 25, played for coach Perry Peterson. However, this one knows coach Peterson better than any of t...

Carole and Chester Brock of Schaumburg brought up their six children to love one another and baseball, so it only seemed natural for family members to attend a White Sox game in Detroit while on vacation together last August. The outing was, in part...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has a way of presenting missions as accomplished even when they're not. So it was when he told Iowans he's put farmers back at their plows, secured a historic increase in military spending and empowered homeb...

MADRAS, Ore. (AP) - Just before sunrise, there's typically nothing atop Round Butte but the whistle of the wind and a panoramic view of Oregon's second-highest peak glowing pink in the faint light. But on Aug. 21, local officials expect this lookout...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A wildfire menacing a southern Utah ski town for nearly a week flared again, doubling in size for the second night in a row and torching more homes after residents fled the flames, officials said Friday. The blaze was one of se...

ATLANTA (AP) - They had a long way to go and a short time to get there, but hundreds of fans in Trans Ams have put the hammer down and made it to Atlanta to celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Smokey and the Bandit." About 350 cars this week retraced...

DETROIT (AP) - The man charged with stabbing a police officer at the Flint airport in a possible act of terrorism was a part-time caretaker at the Montreal apartment building where he lived and had once studied to sell insurance, people who knew him...

Elgin schools' officials expect to vote Monday on a contract for a proposed Elgin charter school, though issues remain with its terms. Elgin Area School District U-46 board members were divided this week about the level of funding U-46 would need t...

LONDON (AP) - Oil prices fell further to a new seven-month low on Wednesday, with the international benchmark for crude sliding below $46 a barrel. That is just above the price seen in November, when OPEC and 10 other oil-producing countries agreed ...