WASHINGTON (AP) - Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week yet remained near historic lows reached in May 2013. Long-term rates resumed their upward trend of recent weeks after declining last week. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursda...

Twenty-two Elgin and Burlington area schools and their corporate partners raised nearly $30,000 for Food for Greater Elgin's Change for Hunger Challenge. The money could feed one person for 39,879 days or provide carts of food for 1,495 families of ...

Across the suburbs, drones costing $579 to $1,229 are fulfilling the ambitions of wannabe pilots who become space voyeurs with the click of a button. But one man's dream is another's “stop filming my koi pond!” or a mom's “what if it drops in the pa...

Evan Ghislin, a junior at Bartlett High School, stepped up to the microphone to present part of the novel he is writing at Bartlett High School's first Writers Week. He was wearing a three-piece suit and red bow tie and said, "There's no such thing ...

WASHINGTON — The United States faces a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025, including a critical need for specialists to treat an aging population that will increasingly live with chronic disease, the association that represents medical...

LOS ANGELES - Neither a hyper-intelligent robot nor Vince Vaughn could save the box office this weekend, which is down 38.5 percent from the same weekend last year, according to Sunday estimates from box office firm Rentrak. While Neill Blomkamp's R...

• When Minnie Minoso broke into major league baseball, the "Cuban Comet" was part of a wave of black players who changed the game forever. By the time he played in his final game 35 years ago, he was a beloved figure with the Chicago White Sox. It w...