GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Just for a moment, Marco Rubio stops trying to explain what went wrong in New Hampshire. He needs to find out why Dominick is crying. "She pinched me," the teary 8-year-old tells his father, who's in the midst of an interview...

Candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Lake County state's attorney have very different ideas how to address wrongful convictions that have plagued the office in recent years. Michael Perillo Jr., a 60-year-old attorney from Grayslake...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Facing the biggest test of his presidential bid, Marco Rubio promised a more aggressive approach in what his team expects to become an extended Republican nomination fight that could result in a brokered national convention....

WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 30 years ago, Donald Trump bought a franchise in the upstart United States Football League. He then led his fellow owners to sue the NFL in a high-stakes antitrust case. The head-on challenge and his ownership of the New ...

FLINT, Mich. (AP) - Taking a detour from New Hampshire's campaign trail, Hillary Clinton said Sunday that a water crisis in a Michigan city was "immoral" and demanded that Congress approve $200 million in emergency aid to address the community's bat...

We've been watching democracy play out on the national stage for months now, and this week, it flared onto our front pages, TV screens and mobile devices with the results of the Iowa caucuses. Over the next five and a half weeks, the surge is coming...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Delivering his last annual sermon to Washington's elite, President Barack Obama on Thursday warned of the corrosive impact of fear in public life and urged a bipartisan group of powerbrokers to abide by their faith "even when no on...

Lake County state's attorney candidate Matthew Stanton said he doesn't understand why the current state's attorney's office is not open to giving a new trial to a woman found guilty of killing a toddler in one of the most high-profile cases in count...

Lauren Gordon, a longtime volunteer in Buffalo Grove and a Kildeer-Countryside District 96 school board member, died Tuesday. Gordon, 55, had been battling breast cancer for several years, but it had recently spread. "Lauren was a really bright, art...

Note: Answers provided have not been edited for grammar, misspellings or typos. In some instances, candidate claims that could not be immediately verified have been omitted. ...