Glenbard High School District 87 board members will choose from two firms to help conduct a nationwide search for a new superintendent. The board met with representatives of Highland Park-based School Exec Connect and Libertyville-based BWP & Associ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Environmentalists hoping to block a proposed underground oil pipeline that would snake 1,700 miles from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico have pinned their hopes on an unlikely ally — the conservative state of Nebraska. Few states are as ...

Breaking News People are looking to the skies to see if a 6-ton satellite will fall on their head today. But, worry not, NASA said only a small portion of the satellite will make it through the reentry process, and those pieces will not land in Nor...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A week after the Agriculture Department announced wider testing for potentially deadly E. coli in meat, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Tuesday that regulations were overburdening food producers. Bachmann v...

AUSTIN, Texas — Call it a leadership test in real time. Gov. Rick Perry left the presidential campaign trail this week to dash back to Texas, where wildfires have devoured more than 1,000 homes in barely seven days. “Not paying attention to politics...

PARIS — Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned home to a mixed welcome in France on Sunday, for the first time since attempted rape accusations by a New York hotel maid unleashed an international scandal that dashed his chances for the French presidency. N...

Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns made it known Friday he is running for the Kane County Board’s chairman seat. And the nemesis who pushed Burns to drop out of his last high-profile regional race has decided to keep out of Burns’ path. Burns has scheduled an...

WASHINGTON — Reigniting a partisan fight over banking regulations, President Barack Obama intends to nominate former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to lead a consumer protection bureau that was a central feature of a law overhauling the rules...