Posted: 9:49 PM The head of the Chicago School Board president says the teacher strike will enter a second day after negotiators failed to reach an agreement Monday.

Posted: 12:20 PM American Express is suing a Maryland man detained for months in Aruba in the suspected death of his traveling companion last year.

Posted: 11:23 AM Thousands of teachers walked off the job Monday in Chicago's first schools strike in 25 years, after union leaders announced that months-long negotiations had failed to resolve a contract dispute with school district officials by a midnight deadline.

Posted: 11:14 AM Illinois Wesleyan University is getting grants totaling more than $500,000 for the study of asteroids and molecules.

Posted: 11:10 AM Members of the Chicago Teachers Union are walking the picket lines after contract talks failed to reach an agreement.

Posted: 12:32 AM The Chicago Teachers Union says its members will go on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years.

Posted: 10:16 PM A motorcycle police officer escorting President Barack Obama's motorcade has died after being hit by a pickup truck.

Posted: 10:15 PM Finally tested, even trailing, at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams turned things around just in time.

Posted: 6:46 PM Rory McIlroy beat the strongest leaderboard in golf this year Sunday in the BMW Championship and joined some elite company.

Posted: 5:03 PM The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 8 cents over the past two weeks.

Posted: 5:01 PM Dozens of Palestinian truck drivers have blocked the main streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah to protest rising prices.

Posted: 5:00 PM President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan get a failing grade on explaining how they'd pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts.

Posted: 9:43 AM Huge reflecting pools, waterfalls, skyscrapers and a cavernous underground museum under construction help make the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center an awesome spectacle. But all that eye-welling magnificence comes with a jaw-dropping price tag.

Posted: 9:41 AM Fresh off a five-week vacation, lawmakers return to Washington on Monday for a brief pre-election session in which Congress will do what it often does best: punt its problems to the future.

Posted: 10:24 PM Despite detectives' pleas to national media, the disappearance of an 18-month-old black boy with the wide smile has yet to grab the widespread attention given to other missing children's cases.

Posted: 10:04 PM The vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union says the city school district's latest offer in contract negotiations is disappointing.

Posted: 4:07 PM Authorities say a couple and their grandchild had no time to reach a shelter before winds from a severe thunderstorm flung their mobile home into a creek in northeast Oklahoma, killing them.

Posted: 4:06 PM Get ready, presidential swing states. Now the campaign ad crush really begins.

Posted: 4:04 PM Finally, the fall season offers the matchup sure to attract the biggest audience of the campaign: President Barack Obama going one-on-one with Republican Mitt Romney in three prime-time debates.

Updated: 9:41 AM Chicago Teachers Union will prep a strike headquarters this weekend. There is a possibility of a walk-out on Monday. The union wants to distribute picket signs and other strike materials to teachers just in case.

Posted: 8:26 AM Juror to the Drew Peterson trial went back and forth with his decision. He faced the same questions over and over, but eventually found Peterson guilty in Kathleen Savio's murder.

Posted: 9:54 PM Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said Friday evening she is disappointed with the latest offer from the school district and that the two sides will resume negotiations Saturday.

Posted: 9:50 PM Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence says he wants to improve student math proficiency, teacher performance and early childhood education, but isn't saying how.

Posted: 9:45 PM Republican Rep. Todd Akin says Missouri TV viewers should expect to see his U.S. Senate ads all the way until Election Day.

Posted: 9:43 PM A dismal new snapshot of jobs in America shadowed the presidential campaign on Friday, testing the voter patience that will save or sink President Barack Obama's re-election bid. Seizing on the timing, Republican Mitt Romney said Obama's convention party had given way to quite a "hangover."