Elgin schools officials say they will be adopting a program framework next month for full-day kindergarten, which includes teacher training and new instructional materials, and will decide whether to implement it districtwide at a later time. A comm...

Spring ahead - while we salute the college achievements of these winter athletes ... Wisconsin senior Zach Ziemek became Lake Park's first NCAA Division I individual champion on March 12 when he won the heptathlon at the indoor track & field champio...

DEARBORN, Mich. - Some American Muslims feel they are once again on the defensive following presidential candidate Ted Cruz's suggestion that Muslim-dominated neighborhoods should be subject to increased surveillance in the wake of the deadly attack...

On Tuesday, March 22, the Elgin Area Chamber took time to recognize its best and brightest members, volunteers and organizations at the "High-Fives After Five" awards at The Haight in downtown Elgin. The awards event was emceed by chamber chair elec...

TORONTO (AP) - Knocking over a grandmother while rushing to the defense of his brother, who was insulting spectators in the City Council chamber. Threatening "murder" in a profane, incoherent rant captured on video. Swearing and slurring, calling th...

TORONTO (AP) - Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family said. He was 46. Ford rode into office on a backlash against urb...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Asian shares were mixed Tuesday following modest gains on Wall Street and a contraction of Japanese manufacturing activity in March, the first in 10 months. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed 1.3 percent to 16,942.5...