A police officer in suburban Dallas shot and killed a college football player during a struggle after the unarmed 19-year-old crashed a car through the front window of a car dealership, authorities said.

People who leave a pet outside in extreme heat or cold could face misdemeanor charges under a new Illinois law.

Fans that stood by the Smashing Pumpkins during their rollercoaster ups and downs of the past decade got rewarded in the form of a show many have waited years to see Friday at a crowded Northerly Island. Playing on a double bill with fellow '90s-er...

James Holmes will spend the rest of his life in prison after at least one juror balked at the possibility of sentencing him to death for the massacre that claimed 12 lives and spawned a gut-wrenching four-month trial.

Tom Farkas planned to mark the presence of the Stanley Cup in the Buffalo, N.Y., area by putting a big mural of Patrick Kane in the window of his hockey equipment store, Great Skate, in suburban Amherst on Friday morning.

At the height of the controversy over professor Steven Salaita last September, University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise traded emails with a campus law professor about how to respond to unrelenting criticism.