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Natalie Anderson lights up as two former neighbors, Paul and Kristoffer Neumann, step into her newly opened barbershop for the first time. She runs to greet the men, who drove an hour from Vernon Hills to Beardsgaard Bar...

Puerto Rico police officer hits 2 US university professors with motorcycle; both survive

After only 25 days in office, the ISIS-appointed governor of Mosul, a major city in northern Iraq, was killed Thursday by U.S.-led airstrikes, according to a high-ranking Iraqi police commander. U.S. security officials h...

As New York mourns, New York leaders and protesters previously critical of the department did an about-face and protests seemed out of place.

While some banks are fixing the problem today, Bank of America, Citizens Bank, and Santander have refused to correct the teacher bank accounts until Monday.

It was quite a Christmas delivery.

A man who put a gun to a teenage girl's head during a home invasion in the Canaryville neighborhood this week was arrested after another resident of the home overpowered him, according to court records.

Beachside memorials and prayers across Asia mark 10th anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami

(Reuters) - Two more men have been arrested for threatening New York police, including one who called the precinct headquarters of two officers killed as they sat in their patrol car and asked to speak to one of them, a ...

During a recent trip to China, my family and I caused quite a commotion in the Forbidden City. It also happened at the terra-cotta warriors museum and again in Tiananmen Square.

The U.S. Secret Service responded to a New York Times report on the use of citizen volunteers to drive certain vehicles in presidential motorcades.

Virginians who try to sell homemade food from their kitchens are feeling the heat from state and local inspectors.

With six of the 21 chairmanships, Texas will have the largest number from a single state since 1979.

A leading Russian elected official on Thursday called for an investigation of the United States' atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II as a "crime against humanity."

Archbishop Blase Cupich opened Christmas morning with Mass inside a chapel at the Cook County Department of Corrections, urging inmates to know God's existence by living for others.

The tiny green beetle known as the emerald ash borer had a mighty impact in Illinois in 2014, killing thousands of trees and spreading to more rural communities in Illinois.

DC panda cub that spent 24 hours in a tree after being startled has rejoined mom

Firefighters in Hawaii airlift 62 hikers stranded by swollen streams, some for days

An autopsy Thursday determined a 1-year-old Englewood girl accidentally drowned, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Neil Olson put up a Christmas tree when two of his sons went off to war in 1974, vowing not to take it down until all six children returned to his Wisconsin home for Christmas. The same tree, he says, is still standing i...

Saying "it would be dangerous for me to be out there," West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett announced on Friday that he will sit out of Monday's Liberty Bowl against Texas A&M because of concussions. The senior was k...