A bill was introduced in Illinois to increase the penalty for aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude officers, with first and second offenses now carrying class 2 and 1 felony penalties, ...

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. In addition to roll call votes this week, the ...

The Chicago River is once again glowing kelly green as the city opens its annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Thousands ...

With the apparent collapse of the long-negotiated St. Petersburg deal for the Rays, an Orlando group hoping to bring ...

A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new ...

The first television ads dropped this week in the Ohio governor’s race that’s still more than a year off. The early onslaught ...

Democratic U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva, who represented Arizona for more than 20 years, died on Thursday at the age of ...

From requiring law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal officials to forcing state contractors to use E-Verify, ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Maine has sued the state's Democratic House speaker over her censure that ...

Logano was in the mix at the season-opening Daytona 500 but ended up finishing 35th in a late-race crash that had Kyle Busch ...

The Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) of Brooklyn and Queens hosted its annual Hall of Fame induction dinner on Feb. 13 at ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Newly minted U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan swore he wouldn't support gutting government benefits such as Medicaid that residents of his northeastern Pennsylvania district rely on.