When the solenoid stuck last week on Sharon Martin's golf cart, an electrical fire started. She scooped dirt from the ground and that knocked down the flames, but the fire didn't go out, so she called for help. ...more

October 22, 2009

A powerful winter storm blasted large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast with snow and freezing rain on Saturday, grounding flights and stranding vehicles along icy roads ...more

January 11, 2009

The owners of Yoda, a cat with four ears, could use a couple extra hands to answer their telephones. ...more

August 23, 2008

ILLINOIS - Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public. ...more

July 20, 2008

ILLINOIS - A school bus driver and amateur artist from the Chicago suburb of Zion has legally changed his name to "In God We Trust." ...more

June 15, 2008

A 79-year-old nun was sentenced Friday to one year in a county jail for sexually abusing two teens when she was their principal four decades ago. ...more

February 2, 2008

NEW YORK (AP)- Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to say she was born in the middle of the country at the middle of the century, in a Chicago suburb that defined a childhood out of "Father Knows Best" or "Ozzie and Harriet." ...more

December 29, 2007