VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Catholic Church makes saints to provide role models for the faithful, and Pope Francis has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors in churning them out at a rapid clip. The process is cloaked in secrecy and open to crit...

Republican Casey Urlacher sounded confident this week that he would overcome an effort to keep him off the March primary ballot in his effort to move up from Mettawa mayor to the Illinois Senate. The brother of former Chicago Bears great Brian Urlac...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - With billionaire investor Warren Buffett looking on, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and expand upon the so-called "Buffett rule" pushed by the Obama adminis...

Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd says his handling of a few controversial cases and his challenge to Lake County politics led to the challenging of his re-election petitions and his subsequent decision to withdraw from the race Monday. Rudd, a first...

Roughly three-quarters of Americans get their news online these days, making the Internet America's favorite news source, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center poll. And for many of them, their online news search starts with a Google query - espec...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Fears of terrorism are hanging over America's holiday season, so President Barack Obama is planning a series of events this week aimed at trying to allay concerns about his strategy for stopping the Islamic State group abroad and i...

An article in some editions of Friday's Daily Herald misspelled the name of Lake County coroner candidate Michael P. Donnenwirth. Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd and two other candidates for county political office could be kicked off the Marc...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. won't elect a president until next year but the debate over the crowded field of candidates jostling for the Oval Office emerged as the hottest topic on Facebook this year. The race for the Democratic and Republican par...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Donald Trump's call to keep Muslims from traveling to the United States is causing dismay among business leaders in the Middle East, a region where the billionaire presidential candidate has done business for years...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Derrick Henry made a quick impression on his Alabama teammates upon arriving on campus as a coveted prospect with everything from his hardcore weight room workouts to those middle-of-the-night pushup sessions. Big, physical a...