Frustrated by your friend’s blizzard of seemingly self-centered Twitter and Facebook updates? Well, officials from many local municipalities are trying to make better use of social media so residents can avoid any snow-related mishaps. They’re emplo...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The former president of the security firm Blackwater has denied in sworn testimony that the company's contractors regularly used excessive force or that officials falsified travel documents. Gary Jackson said in a December deposition...

After reading your editorial about O'Hare's runways I have to comment. I personally am sick and tired of hearing about how vital economic the O'Hare expansion project is and how it must be completed at all costs. This statement being made by your e...

The Interact Club at Fenton High School began planning to start a Special Olympics basketball team when they met the last part of the 2010 school year. In 2010-11, they started on the path to having a team based on the foundation created in 2010. On...

There is a harsh reality to face: Illinois is broke. Illinois did not get into this mess the same way that the federal government did with the real necessity of military spending. Illinois is broke because of internal mismanagement of funds. Bad spe...

The nerve of Oak Brook Village President John W. Craig. It’s OK for him and his wife to collect their pensions because they worked for them. Does he think the people he’s allowed to be bashed during a village board meeting play tiddlywinks on the jo...