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...

Few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be tallied accurately in next year's presidential contest, suggesting years of sustained attacks against elections by former President Donald Trump and his allies have taken a toll, according to a...

COLDSPRING, Texas (AP) - Sheriff Greg Capers was the classic picture of a Texas lawman as he announced the capture of a suspected mass killer: white cowboy hat on his head, gold star pinned to his chest, white cross on his belt and a large pistol em...

State revenues once again reached a record high in the fiscal year that ended June 30, creating what Gov. J.B. Pritzker called a "one-time" budget surplus of more than $700 million. The $50.7 billion in base general revenues that the state collected...

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Transportation unveiled a plan on Friday for spending nearly $41 billion in federal, state and local funds over the next six years to repair and upgrade roads, bridges, airports, rail lines and other infrastr...