While Pro Bowl Week is generally short on NFL news, things were far from quiet in the sporting world. Late Saturday night, news broke that NBA ...

England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy go head to head to be crowned kings of northern hemisphere rugby Ireland are the reigning champions, their only defeat last year coming at the ...

Thornton Township has settled which candidates for supervisor will appear on the April 1 ballot, as objectors to Democratic nominee and state Sen. Napoleon Harris dropped their challenge Monday.

Duncan Hannah, an American painter known for his depictions of idyllic landscapes and portraits inspired by adventure stories and classic films, has died.

St. John’s is getting back its engine — just in time for the biggest stretch of this joyride of a season. After missing three of the last four games with a bruised right shoulder he injured on ...

Wilson was headed for a building he’d never visited before — theUS Capitol, where his bust of Martin Luther King Jr. would be ...

Photo courtesy of Jack Kienast About 100 people attended the Ninth Annual William Stafford Birthday Poetry Reading on Jan. 26 ...

Lions fan Bryson Machonga wanted to take his daughter to the Lions’ playoff game, so he did the only thing he could think to do to afford the tickets: He sold some of his favorite sports memorabilia, ...

When Bryson Machonga decided to sell his autographed Detroit Lions Matthew Stafford jersey so he could take his daughter to an NFL playoff game, he hoped the quarterback would understand.

An ancient tooth in a crystal vessel inside a gilded silver frame at the Art Institute of Chicago was long thought to belong to John the Baptist, a contemporary of Jesus. But testing ruled that out.

The draft and free agency are the tentpole events, but trades will figure into the plans of most teams around the league. Jerry Jeudy, Brian Burns, Keenan Allen and Stefon Diggs were just some of the ...