<p>The WNBA opens play this weekend and former University of Iowa player Tangela Smith will be in uniform for the San Antonio Silver Stars. It was here in Iowa, 34 years ago, when women’s professional basketball was born. Iowa Public Radio’s Rick Fredericksen has this look back at the charter team, in this Iowa Archives special.</p>
Facebook is trading up 8 percent Friday, as investors seek to put a dollar value on the company that turned online social networking into a global cultural phenomenon.
The United Nations has been urging participants at this weekend's NATO summit to provide "predictable, massive, long-term support" for Afghanistan's security forces to promote stability and ensure that the country is...
Mental health experts who interviewed a Michigan serial stabbings suspect testified Friday that he revealed a pattern of planning, control and lack of empathy for his alleged victims - key factors that would make him...
Democrats in the Illinois Senate plan to spell out their ideas for getting the state through its latest budget crisis.
By JOSHUA FREED AP Business Writer It looks like it will take more than Facebook's initial public offering to push stocks up.
By The Associated Press It's Facebook's big day.
Brian McNamee testified Friday that some of the medical evidence he saved in a beer can was not used on former pitcher Roger Clemens.
A California school bus driver who was hailed as a hero for helping 26 students escape after three kidnappers buried them underground in 1976 has died. Frank Edward "Ed" Ray was 91.
President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world.
You could call Elisabeth Badinter a very lucky woman. It's not just that she's wealthy, successful, a respected scholar and a best-selling writer in her home country, France (yep, she gets to live in Paris, too.)
Maryland's highest court ruled Friday that same-sex couples can divorce in the state even though Maryland does not yet permit same-sex marriages.
Officials at the University of Northern Iowa say 12 tenured faculty members will sign up for buyout incentives or phased retirements, saving the school about $1.3 million as it seeks to reduce spending.
Your First Alert Forecast from Theresa Bryant:
More warm sunshine on tap for this afternoon as high pressure remains an influence over the region. Look for highs ranging from the lower 80's in the northern counties to middle 80's across the south.
The Crosstown Classic gets under way in Chicago this afternoon. The Chicago Cubs send 4-1 Jeff Samardzija (suh-MAR'-juh) to face 1-2 Philip Humber of the crosstown-rival White Sox. The Cubs lost four of six to the South...
Nurses and other protesters are making their way to a rally at a downtown Chicago plaza ahead of a two-day NATO summit.
University of Illinois administrators have decided the Police Training Institute will close June 30 in spite of a push by Urbana's mayor to keep it open.
A former Chicago-area Buddhist priest has been arrested in Anchorage on a charge of sexual assaulting a teenager.
Brian McNamee testified Friday that some of the medical evidence he saved in a beer can was not used on former pitcher Roger Clemens.
A federal appeals court has upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and rejected a challenge by an Alabama county to the landmark civil rights law.
