Hampshire

A Rockford man was ticketed after the car he was driving was involved in a two-car crash in unincorporated Hampshire Township that killed a passenger in his car Saturday, officials said today. The crash occurred at 9:10 p.m. on Route 72 a half-mile...

The announcement Wednesday of the date of New Hampshire's presidential primary largely cements the election calendar for 2012, which will see fewer contests in the early stages than in the frontloaded 2008 race. The first five Republican contests are...

NEW YORK -- Wedding fever hit New York on Sunday, as hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up to be married on the first day that same-sex marriage was legal in the state. In western New York, two grandmothers became the state's first legally wed...

Ford Motor Co. is recalling 1.1 million pickup trucks because the gas tanks can fall off and cause fires. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday on its website that the metal straps holding the tanks can rust, allowing them to...

Officials say a 69-year-old Hampshire man is dead after a small airplane crashed as it attempted to take off near Elgin in unincorporated Kane County, officials said. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford confirms one person is dead....

In his first television ad of the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney intended to use President Obama's words during the 2008 presidential race against him (see below). But Democrats are calling the spot a "deceitful and dishonest attack" because it...

Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended his new campaign ad that takes President Obama's words out of context, saying there was "no hidden effort" to mislead voters. The Romney campaign ad, which began airing in New Hampshire on Tuesday, uses footage from an...

[Herman Cain is] done. By the end of the week, maybe. By the end of the month almost certainly....Eric Zorn, Nov. 3, 2011 If Cain steps out of the race by midnight Wednesday -- and, really, why wouldn't he now......

By Clifford Ward, Special to the Tribune A Crystal Lake man who was driving a car that went airborne on a hilly road in Hampshire …...

Ford is recalling 1.1 million trucks because in certain cold-weather states, road chemicals can corrode the fuel tank straps. This could lead to both fuel lines detaching from the tank or the tank falling off entirely and hitting the ground.......

The most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants can be found in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to a new study released Wednesday by the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The...

The American Civil Liberties Union is bringing its heavy artillery to bear on the mobile location privacy debate. The civil advocacy group has coordinated 34 of its offices to send 375 public records requests to police and law enforcement agencies......