Monthly Archives: May, 2009

HOUSTON — Despite millions in new investments and President Barack Obama's push for clean energy technology, many oil and gas executives say mass production of renewable energy is not likely before at least the middle of the next decade, a new surve

NAIROBI, Kenya — South Korean snipers hovering in a helicopter Monday chased away pirates pursuing a North Korean freighter, a rare instance of recent cooperation between the two Koreas.

Teachers union officials are criticizing an e-mail from the head of the Chicago Public Schools board encouraging principals to support Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Games.

Less than a year after raising its rates, Friday ComEd announced a rate cut, thanks to a procurement agreement it plans to sign by June.

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi's highest court heard arguments Monday on Madonna's bid to adopt a 3-year-old girl from the southern African country, as a dispute erupted over whether a man trying to stop the proceedings is the girl's father.

Eight men were shot, two fatally, since Friday on the South and West Sides.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — The widow of a southwestern Illinois man who died when a bonfire ignited the home where he was sleeping has filed a lawsuit.

OAK PARK, Ill. — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn hopped on a train to drive home the message that riding public transit isn't risky to people's health.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an undocumented immigrant who uses a phony Social Security number to get work shouldn't be considered an identity thief unless prosecutors can prove he knew the number belonged to a real person.

O'FALLON, Ill. — Separate services are planned for a southwestern Illinois woman who was killed by her husband and for her husband who was fatally shot by police.