Hoffman Estates, Ill. - Wesley Matthews scored 17 points and No. 15 Marquette used a 20-0 first-half run Friday night to rout Northern Iowa 73-43 in the Chicago Invitational Challenge. Playing its first game outside of Milwaukee this season ...

Syracuse moved into the Top 25 on Monday, giving the Big East Conference a record eight teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll. North Carolina (7-0) remained the unanimous No. 1 selection of the 72-member national media panel, while ...

DEARBORN (AP) -- With three bags in one hand and two in the other, Norene Pelaccio stopped to flex her fingers at Fairlane Town Center. "Boy, these are heavy," said the 65-year-old Dearborn resident, who lugged pots and pans marked down at Macy's. "I ...

LAS VEGAS -- Fans of Frank Sinatra will get a kick out of a new Italian restaurant planned for the Las Vegas Strip. Casino mogul Steve Wynn tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a restaurant at Encore, his newest resort, will be named Sinatra. Wynn ...

Boy, these are heavy," said the 65-year-old Dearborn resident, who lugged pots and pans marked down at Macy's. "I'm not a shop-a-holic. I just love a bargain. ... I was going to go to the casino but changed my mind." Pelaccio joined the post ...

A new Alton plaza commemorating disastrous floods and the Confluence Tower in Hartford are two metro-east projects funded by the federal government this year. The federal government is awarding the city of Alton a $200,000 scenic byways grant to ...

A new Alton plaza commemorating disastrous floods and the Confluence Tower in Hartford are two metro-east projects funded by the federal government this year. The federal government is awarding the city of Alton a $200,000 scenic byways grant to ...

RIVERSIDE, Mo. -- The O'Reilly MLRA presented by Lucas Oil officially honored Omaha, Nebraska's John Anderson as the series' 2008 Champion at the Championship Awards Banquet held in the Casablanca room of the Argosy Casino in Riverside, MO on ...

The light-draped Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will chug into Davenport and other area communities Dec. 5 for an evening of fun for a good cause. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) The light-draped Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will chug into Davenport and other ...

The Utah Jazz at 35: Era 1 Oct 19: Jazz at 35: Jazz's years in New Orleans were no Mardi Gras Jazz at 35: Maravich made history with 68-point game against Knicks Jazz at 35: To appreciate getting good, they had to be this bad The greatest feat to ...