WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17 months, a streak of hikes that are intended to curb inflation but that also carry the risk of going too far and triggering a recession. The move lif...

Illinois' junior senator, Hoffman Estates Democrat Tammy Duckworth, significantly outraised senior U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin in the year's second quarter, new federal records show. Duckworth, who won election to her second 6-year term in November, recei...

As authorities continue to investigate a suburban sex trafficking ring, details emerge about the women who were victimized. Investigators found one of the women told her traffickers she wanted to quit. Her traffickers told her she had to finish out ...

Elgin Area School District U-46 officials are eyeing two Elgin properties as potential school sites. School board members Monday night approved issuing two nonbinding letters of intent to purchase about 5.4 to 5.9 acres at the old Sherman Hospital s...

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) - Heavy rains pounded an already saturated Northeast on Sunday for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, canceled airline flights and power outages. In Pennsylvania, a sudden flash flood l...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - This was the moment. If Novak Djokovic was going to be stopped in the Wimbledon semifinals, if his much younger and harder-hitting opponent, Jannik Sinner, was going to turn things around Friday, the monumental comeback req...

FORT ST. JOHN, British Columbia (AP) - When James Bergen steps from a plane and plummets toward fire below, he's not scared. Instead, he says, he gets a rush from not knowing exactly what he'll face when he parachutes in as one of the smokejumpers c...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Novak Djokovic looked as if he were a bit surprised by the question. And maybe he should have been. The query, essentially, was this: Are you the favorite to win the championship at Wimbledon? Now, sure, there is some work ...

Community Consolidated School District 21's board of education on June 22 voted in favor of four administrative appointments, including a new director of business services and three new assistant principals. Michael Zagar will join the district in t...