LONDON (AP) - Global stock markets stabilized Wednesday after a volatile few days when investors around the world fretted over the likelihood of an imminent rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, Germany's DAX was up 0.4 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaking of his own experience after his son Beau's death, Vice President Joe Biden consoled the family of the late Rep. Mark Takai on Wednesday, telling them to "hang on to each other" to make it through the rough days. Biden join...

LONDON (AP) - Men with early prostate cancer who choose to closely monitor their disease are just as likely to survive at least 10 years as those who have surgery or radiation, finds a major study that directly tested and compared these options. Sur...

WASHINGTON (AP) - As the U.S. economy enters its eighth year of its recovery from the Great Recession, one major factor is slowing its growth: Government gridlock. That finding emerges from a report by Harvard Business School being officially releas...

BEIJING (AP) - Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday following Wall Street's decline in light trading with exchanges in China and Korea closed for holidays. KEEPING SCORE: Tokyo's Nikkei 225 tumbled 1.3 percent to 16,391.39 points while Hon...

Taxpayers in Elgin Area School District U-46 paid almost $1.9 million to nine different law firms during the 2015 school year. That's almost five times the $390,383 spent on lawyers in Naperville Unit District 203, which had the second-highest legal...

Kenneth Miller's list of goals and accomplishments seemed never-ending to his daughter, Dominique Miller. He was a marathoner, avid animal lover, devoted father and a hardworking man, she said. He was also a Democratic candidate seeking a District 3...