WASHINGTON (AP) - It's not exactly a guilt-free pleasure, but food researchers say cocoa beans could be good for you. Dolly Sullivan is a believer. She eats two or three squares of Dove dark chocolate daily and talked her mother into switching from coffee...

NEW YORK (AP) - The summer doldrums settled into Wall Street Monday as the rising price of oil wiped out a moderate early advance and sent stocks into negative territory. News of several major acquisitions carried some stocks higher. Analysts said that...

All communities are looking for good health care, and in fall 2007 the expanded Kishwaukee Community Hospital will provide just that. But it comes with a sobering price tag. "This is a $100-200 million project and we have many sources where this money...

DeKalb commuters soon may find Route 23 clogged with orange, blinking work-zone barrels. The amount of noise the public can expect from the construction is a concern and City Engineer Joel Maurer said it will be best for late-night construction to take...

With the neighboring cities of DeKalb and Sycamore steadily increasing in population, Kishwaukee Community Hospital is cramped for space on busy nights. Construction of a new, $102 million facility is under way, which should go a long way to fixing that...

Several new businesses made their way into Huskie country this summer. New to DeKalb are Big Lots on Sycamore Road; Java 101, 901 Lucinda Ave.; Pizzeria Zia, 725 N. First St.; Moxie, 230 E. Lincoln Highway and Varsity Subs, 817 W. Lincoln Highway. With...

Echo Park and Greek Row proved to be the place to celebrate the end of another summer in DeKalb. During Saturday night’s festivities, police responded to a report of a car turned upside down in a parking lot on Spiros Court and a fight on Aspen Court...

Illinois high-school seniors graduating in the top 5 percent of their class were denied $1,000 in Illinois Student Assistance Commission merit-based scholarships this year. Last year, the $5.4 million program provided 5,400 Top 10 students attending Illinois...

NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - For thousands of Illinois college students, a short ride to home cooking and free washers and dryers is just blocks away aboard Amtrak trains that rumble past nearly a dozen campuses across the state. Students accounted for as much...

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - It takes a tough person to be on a SWAT team. It takes a tough person to win an Ironman competition. Lt. Bob Wingo did both. Wingo is on the Secretary of State Police SWAT team, attached to the agency’s Belleville station, and on...

DeKalb resident Phillip A. Neumann died from injuries received in an car accident Aug. 17. The accident occurred at 10:57 p.m. on Peace Road, between Barber Greene and Bethany roads. It appeared the car was travelling north on Peace Road when it left...

A ‘double whammy’ of bad luck is taking hold of the region’s farmers who have already seen their crop wither away in the drought of 2005. The corn crop harvest, which may be as much as 50 percent lower than average, is worsened by the fact the drought...