How to play McHenry VFW Post 4600 Queen of Hearts
The estimated $1.65 million pot for the Queen of Hearts game at McHenry Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4600 has been stirring excitement and …
Some fear changes to state laws as U.S. weighs marijuana medicine
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Some American parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their children are fee…
Halting S. Korea-U.S. drills risks weakening N. Korea deterrence
SEOUL, South Korea – U.S. and South Korean defense officials formally suspended a major joint military exercise in hopes of advancing nuclea…
West Point grad touts communism, gets boot
WATERTOWN, N.Y. – The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the cadet …
Fox River Grove zoning board to consider permit for Bettendorf Castle tours
The owner of Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove is asking the village for a special use permit that would allow him to give public tours o…
Twin brothers reunited 74 years after World War II death at Normandy
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France – For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was in…
Meat 2.0? Clean meat? Spat shows the power of food wording
NEW YORK – If meat is grown in a lab without slaughtering animals, what should it be called? That question has yet to be decided by regulato…
Trump raises risk of economically harmful U.S.-China trade war
WASHINGTON – The U.S. and China edged closer Tuesday to triggering the riskiest trade war in decades, a fight that could weaken the world's …
Family separations at the border alarm child-welfare experts
The sights and sounds are wrenching: A boy's cries of "Papa! Papa!" for the father he had been separated from. Youngsters placed in chain-li…
Flash flooding prompts several vehicle rescues in Rockford
ROCKFORD – Bystanders rescued a 70-year-old man from his submerged car after flash flooding swamped a northern Illinois city Monday.
