GREEN VALLEY - The saluting sound of gunfire rang out while a trumpet's tune peacefully filled the background.

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney was the featured speaker Friday night at the Peoria County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner.

CHICAGO (AP) - Police and Illinois' child welfare agency say staff at a Chicago-area hospital didn't alert them after determining that a bloodied woman who arrived with a gravely ill newborn had not just given birth to the baby boy, as she claimed.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Activists in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have been pushing for statehood for decades.

Although it is subject to change, that proposal for a new capital bill that surfaced Friday from Gov.