LONDON — George Entwistle, the director general of the BBC, resigned on Saturday night over a TV program the network had aired that wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex-abuse scandal. In a brief statement outside BBC headquarters,...

WASHINGTON — Big changes are coming to President Barack Obama’s administration — just not right away. The White House is making the nation’s high-stakes fiscal crisis its top priority coming out of the election, underscoring the vital importance of...

Republicans turned to voters in nearly a dozen states Tuesday in hopes of broadening the party’s hold on governors’ mansions across the country, with some GOP candidates viewing this election as their best opportunity to win in a quarter-century. Tw...

Lake County will have a new top prosecutor for the first time in more than two decades, though the party affiliation will remain the same. The vote was close for awhile but Republican Mike Nerheim of Gurnee pulled away from Democrat Chris Kennedy of...

Five things to know about Tuesday's election in Illinois: 1. EARLY VOTING PUSH PAID OFF Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for those voters who didn't follow President Barack Obama's lead and vote early this year. Obama made a quick stop in C...

A look at the race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. With two days left in the campaign, Obama appears closer to the goal, but Republican Mitt Romney has closed on the Democrat ...

A Lake County judicial candidate has been placed on unpaid leave from her job as a supervisor with the Lake County state’s attorney’s office amid allegations she stole campaign signs from a Republican group opposing her, officials said Thursday. Pa...

WASHINGTON — Baseball great Hank Aaron is a Barack Obama guy. Golf legend Jack Nicklaus is in Mitt Romney’s camp. From athletes and astronauts to singers and Hollywood stars, a growing line of celebrities is turning up at fancy dinners and rallies ...