Baxter International, which last year spun off its drugs unit to form Baxalta Inc., beat analysts' second-quarter earnings estimates and raised its 2016 guidance after what it said was a strong first half of the year. Earnings, excluding certain ite...

The Illinois Impact 18U team recently took first and second place in two national travel softball tournaments. The team went 7-0 to win the championship at the Heartland Shootout, an ASA National "A" Qualifier in the Quad Cities. Head coach Kent Sza...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Latest on the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia (all times EDT): 10:50 p.m. Bernie Sanders says no one is more disappointed than he is over not being the Democratic presidential nominee. But the Vermont senator i...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Flames raced down a steep hillside "like a freight train," leaving smoldering remains of homes and forcing thousands to flee the wildfire churning through tinder-dry canyons in Southern California, authorities said Sunday. The fir...

Andrew McCafferty broke out in a grin when told he was going to win a blue ribbon for his 4-H project at the Kane County Fair. However, the satin badge would not be pinned to a cow or a hog. It was for a project explaining simple electrical circuitr...

Mundelein High School officials will meet next week to discuss changing the bell schedule - but not what time school starts each day. Mundelein High has been on a block schedule since 1996. Instead of eight 50-minute periods each day, students h...

NEW YORK (AP) - There were dire warnings for the Boy Scouts of America a year ago when the group's leaders, under intense pressure, voted to end a long-standing blanket ban on participation by openly gay adults. Several of the biggest sponsors of Sc...