Six people are safe after fleeing a house destroyed in an early morning fire on Friday.
-- A St. Clair County circuit judge on Friday rejected Tiffany Hall's request to withdraw her plea of guilty to killing a close friend, cutting the fetus from her friend's womb and drowning the woman's three other children.
The grand prize in the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto game has grown to $8.75.
As a new member of the Peace Corps, Ralph Bernstein is trying to get used to the heat and humidity in the equatorial African nation of Ghana, the bone-jarring rides over unpaved roads and unsanitary conditions.
Just as I was starting to despair of my financial future, along comes the McDonald's Monopoly promotional game to give me hope.
John McCain and Barack Obama outlined steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on Friday, fresh evidence of the dominant role of pocketbook issues in their race for the White House.
Shops, businesses and schools were shut in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday to protest a visit by the Indian prime minister who inaugurated the first train line in the disputed Himalayan region.