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Manning uneven in first appearance with Broncos
Peyton Manning's first appearance with the Denver Broncos was a brief one. Manning played one possession in the preseason opener against the Chicago ...
Peterson to ex-wife: 'Why don't you just die?'
Drew Peterson's third wife told a friend a year before she was found dead in her bathtub that the former suburban Chicago police officer once broke ...
Peterson trial filled with drama, shouts, tears
Just two days after his third wife's body was found in a bathtub, Drew Peterson sat on a card-table chair next to his tearful fourth wife and ...
No one injured in Megabus fire on Georgia highway
A double-decker bus caught fire Wednesday along Interstate 85 in northeast Georgia, forcing passengers to scramble off and closing the northbound ...
Correction: Heart Treatment story
In an Aug. 7 story about concerns about the overtreatment of patient chest pain, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of angioplasties ...
Romney says Obama favors 'culture of dependency'
Republican Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of ditching a long-standing work requirement for welfare recipients, accusing him of ...
Romney trounces Obama in fundraising for 3rd month
Can President Barack Obama raise the money he needs to hold onto the White House? Money wasn't supposed to be a worry for the president's campaign, ...
Federal court denies ex-Illinois governor's appeal
A federal court in Chicago on Monday denied George Ryan's latest appeal seeking his release from prison, dashing what was widely regarded as the ...
USDA: Corn, soy crops grow slightly worse
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the condition of country's corn and soybean crops hasn't gotten much worse in the past week but large portions ...
Kirk releases second video message after stroke
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a stroke in January, released a second video message Sunday showing improved mobility and speech and detailing his ...
Thousands of fish die as Midwest streams heat up
Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 ...
Lollapalooza lineup shuffled due to big storm
A powerful thunderstorm rumbled into downtown Chicago on Saturday, forcing organizers to suspend the Lollapalooza music festival for more than two ...
Jackson's wife calls his depression debilitating
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is suffering from debilitating depression and even collapsed at his home in Washington two months ago, his wife said in ...
Vertical skydiving world record broken in Illinois
Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, a group of nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record as they flew heads-down in a massive ...
The Onion sparks ire with image of plane, building
The satirical newspaper The Onion is attracting some public ire for an image that shows an airliner about to crash into Chicago's Willis Tower, the ...
Failure of bank in Illinois brings '12 total to 40
Regulators have closed a small bank in Illinois, bringing to 40 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Refinery problems, spill drive up Great Lakes gas
A rare combination of pipeline and refinery problems has exacerbated already rising gas prices in the Great Lakes region, leading to surges of around ...
Testimony in Peterson trial enters 4th day
Drew Peterson's former sister-in-law has testified that her sister told her before her 2004 death that she believed Peterson was going to kill her.
Lollapalooza bringing dance focus to Chicago
Get ready to dance, Lollapalooza fans. This year's three-day, sold-out mega-festival that starts Friday on Chicago's lakefront will have well-known ...
Judge: No mistrial in Drew Peterson murder case
A judge said Thursday that he believed Drew Peterson could receive a fair trial in his murder case, but not before chiding prosecutors for entering ...
EPA can't regulate livestock farms it can't find
The report to Congress was blunt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had failed to regulate pollution from the nation's livestock farms — many ...
Judge: Peterson murder trial in jeopardy
A visibly angry judge said Wednesday he will consider declaring a mistrial at Drew Peterson's murder trial after a second major blunder by prosecutors ...
Half of US counties now considered disaster areas
Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government's list of natural disaster areas as the nation's ...
NC regulators hire law firm to probe Duke Energy
North Carolina utilities regulators said Wednesday they have hired a former federal prosecutor with experience digging into corporate affairs to ...