CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities in Chicago say four men have been found shot in a garage in a residential area on the city's southwest side.
Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said late Thursday police were on the scene of an incident, but he could not immediately provide details on the victims' condition.
Chicago Fire Department spokesman Kevin MacGregor says paramedics have taken one male adult, who appeared to be in critical condition, to...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak says he's revoked a request he made for a taxpayer-paid grant that raised questions about whether it complies with House rules.
Sestak said Thursday he pulled the request this week for money to help develop a wind energy turbine prototype. He did so after the Morning Call of Allentown first reported that the man who heads the nonprofit applicant also heads the for-profit company that would manufacture the turbine....
DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. (AP) — A Good Samaritan in northeastern Pennsylvania says she saw her efforts go up in flames when the car she was about to donate to charity burst into flames.
Delaware Water Gap resident Carol Hourigan says she had called 1-800-Kars4Kids to donate the 1996 Buick Riviera on Thursday afternoon.
But the Pocono Record of Stroudsburg reports that as the flatbed tow truck driver started it up, the car exploded into flames....
TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says two power-plant projects that would rely on clean-coal technology are opportunities Illinois can't afford to let get away.
Durbin spoke Thursday in Taylorville in central Illinois after meeting with local leaders and officials from the Nebraska power company Tenaska.
Tenaska hopes to build one of the projects. The Taylorville Energy Center would use coal to make power but capture its carbon dioxide...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Ted Strickland has outlined how he will spend some of the $519 million that Ohio is getting in new federal Medicaid money, giving $150 million to hospitals to help offset state fees and designating $33 million to preserve jobs in the mental health system.
Strickland also said Thursday that $13 million will go toward a program that offers drug assistance to Ohioans living with HIV or AIDS.
The money became available after...
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing Co. will do some limited testing on two more 787 airliners besides the six planes in its flight test fleet.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes spokeswoman Mary Hanson says the two planes are needed to fulfill requirements to test production versions of the new jet, along with the six configured for the flight test program. One plane will be used for ground tests while the other will fly to check functions, reliability, and operations on routes far from...
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge says foster parents who have raised a toddler since before her mother was murdered last year can adopt the girl, instead of grandparents who didn't know the child existed before the murder.
Dennis and Carolyn Konopka, of North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, at first challenged the adoption by a couple who've had custody of their granddaughter since she was three months old. Their mentally challenged 21-year-old daughter Megan was murdered...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nation of Islam M
inister Louis Farrakhan says an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Farrakhan spoke at the National Press Club in Washington along with a coalition of African-American Muslims. They say the controversy over the building is indicative of a rise in racism toward minorities....
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — A member of Southern Illinois University's governing board has stepped down after taking over as the region's new U.S. attorney.
The Southern Illinoisan of Carbondale reports that Stephen Wigginton resigned his seat last week, a day before being sworn in as southern Illinois' top federal prosecutor.
A spokesman for the university system, David Gross, says the Justice Department and the university's legal counsel agreed that...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois prisons director Michael Randle will return to Ohio for a corrections job after resigning from his post.
Randle will head a community corrections facility for the not-for-profit group Oriana (ore-ee-EH'-nuh) House in Cleveland.
Randle faced months of criticism after Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn blamed him for a secret early release program that credited more than 1,700 prison inmates for good-conduct credit they didn't...
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