Portillo's Hot Dogs on Monday said it has named a new CEO, the president of Noodles & Co.

Illinois Tool Works CEO E. Scott Santi and wife Nancy paid $6.1 million last month for a four-bedroom, 6,350-square-foot vintage mansion on Lake Michigan in Winnetka.

A Crystal Lake police officer shot and wounded a man who charged at him with a knife early Monday morning, authorities said.

Aging baby boomers were supposed to bring a gray-haired danger to U.S. roads, with traffic safety experts predicting years ago that the number of deadly accidents involving older drivers would soar as boomers reached their golden years.

A man was killed and 14 other people were wounded in separate shootings across the city since Sunday afternoon.

A week of funerals lie ahead for victims of the Charleston church massacre that killed nine people, re-opened old racial wounds and evoked memories of past episodes of violence against black churches.

State police moved their manhunt for two convicted murderers to an area west of the New York prison from which they boldly escaped more than two weeks ago, as officers began probing the latest sighting.

For most of her 92 years, Diana York loved the opera. She first went when she was 19 and said it was a rare year that she didn't catch at least one performance, often with her sister. Until recently, though, she hadn't been back since around 2007.

Searchers have found the body of a former White House chef who had been missing for more than a week after going hiking in the New Mexico mountains, authorities said.

The 119-year-old Loop "L" station house at Madison Street and Wabash Avenue, a Chicago icon to some but a dilapidated eyesore to others, will begin to be taken down this week.