NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks slightly lower in midday trading on Wall Street on Thursday, as traders focused on a large batch of earnings reports from U.S. companies. Ryder System, a truck leasing company, fell 7 percent after reporting earnings that fell...

SMYRNA, Del. (AP) - The Latest on hostage situation at Delaware prison (all times local): 2:45 p.m. The head of the corrections officers' union in Delaware says he believes that inmates had practiced taking over a prison before they took three guard...

It's a small generator that could power a small light, but the invention could pay some big dividends for a group of Streamwood High School students. Their wind-powered generator idea won the state competition in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow cont...

Suburban school districts with high percentages of poor students are losing out on millions of federal dollars each year that are diverted to cover pensions, a new report by an education advocacy group has found. Stand for Children found Elgin ...

LONDON (AP) - Solid Chinese manufacturing data helped shore up global stock markets on Tuesday ahead of the latest policy decision from the U.S. Federal Reserve. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, Germany's DAX was up 1 percent to 11,656 while the CAC 40 in ...

President Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees from certain countries has brought stress, desperation, worry and confusion to a number of families in the United States and abroad. Trump's order temporarily halted the entire U.S. refugee p...

TOKYO (AP) - Japan is not deliberately weakening the yen to boost its exports, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday when asked in parliament about President Donald Trump's accusations of currency manipulation. Abe is expected to meet with Trump ...

Elgin is lowering the value of its land available for residential development, which will reduce impact fees paid by builders to the city and school districts - which all the parties involved say is fair. Ultimately, it's good news for homebuyers, s...