NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump's transition activities (all times EST): 12:00 Vice President-elect Mike Pence is the latest high-profile person to attend the Broadway hit show "Hamilton" - but the first to get a sharp mes...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor's race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper's unofficial advantage growing to ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Commissioner Rob Manfred says baseball wants to study high-profile positions within the sport to see if certain qualifications predict success, a step that "has everything to do" with minority hiring. Baseball had no Latino managers b...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois congressman who resigned amid scrutiny of lavish spending - including a "Downton Abbey"-style redecorating of his Capitol Hill office - was charged Thursday in a wide-ranging federal indictment that alleges he schemed...

BEIJING (AP) - Donald Trump is a mixed blessing for Chinese leaders. Trump's threats to tear up trade deals and hike tariffs on Chinese goods look ominous. If carried out, they could chill thriving commercial ties at a time when Beijing is strugglin...

When Brian Dahl joined the Kane County Board in July 2015, it was to fill a vacancy created by a midterm departure of a fellow Democrat. With his victory Tuesday, Dahl now has four years to make the District 6 seat his own. Unofficial results show D...

Veteran Lake County Recorder of Deeds Mary Ellen Vanderventer easily won a new 4-year term Tuesday. Vanderventer, a Democrat from Waukegan, was ahead of Libertyville Republican Robert Haraden 163,372 to 118,851, unofficial results showed. Vanderven...

Lake County Board member Aaron Lawlor coasted to re-election Tuesday night. Lawlor, a Vernon Hills Republican, thumped first-time Democratic candidate Gerri Songer of Hawthorn Woods 7,763 to 6,130 in the race for the 18th District seat, unofficial r...

Daily Herald staff report Heated congressional races are heading full steam toward Tuesday's election, including the 10th District's high-profile three-peat and the battle to fill the 8th District seat being vacated by Tammy Duckworth as she runs fo...

Now this is more like it. The Silver and Black against the Orange Crush for the division lead. Well, at least the current Raiders and Broncos going head to head for first place in the AFC West. One of pro sports' most storied, intense (yeah, you can...