About 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS in the coming weeks.

Illinois State Police say a trooper is dead after being struck by a vehicle on Interstate 55 outside Chicago. Trooper Clay Carns was on I-55 around 9:45 p.m. Monday when ...

Holiday lights are everywhere — and everywhere they look a little different. In recent weeks, Associated Press photographers ...

Is anything more gratifying than an unexpected gift from a stranger? The answer is “yes,” but we’ll get to that.

Use of the flagpole ceased years ago and now that work is being done to the courthouse, the Muscatine County Board of ...

There will be no print publication of the Muscatine Journal on Wednesday, Dec. 25, for Christmas. An e-edition and the ...

My wife and I went looking for a Christmas tree in the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest in northern Wisconsin.

Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew the appeal of a July decision at trial to dismiss the charge against actor Alec Baldwin in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a ...

WASHINGTON — American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide Tuesday because of a technical problem just as the ...

Southern California jumped to No. 4 in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll on Monday after edging UConn.

Santa and Mrs. Claus took supersized rides to southeast Alaska this week in a C-17 military cargo plane and a camouflaged ...

At least 19 companies have cut a combined 14,000 jobs because of bankruptcies, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an ...