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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wium/local-wium-923834.mp3Macomb, IL – Almost 2 million Illinoisans were expected to have traveled on…

About half of Kodak's 38,000 retirees still live in Rochester, N.Y., where the company is based. Many of them are anxious about their pensions and retiree health care coverage amid reports that the company is preparing for a Chapter 11 filing.

As Spain's borrowing costs continue to go through the roof, the European Commission proposes a "banking union" for the 17-country eurozone. The plan would include a fund to protect individual governments from being overwhelmed by the cost of bank rescues.

While a powerful temblor near Sumatra has led to a "tsunami watch" for the entire Indian Ocean, so far only a minor wave has been generated.

The vast area of the country between the cities has considerable strengths, recent studies show, although population growth generally has some negatives…

She said the bloodshed she witnessed in Toronto had taught her to cherish every moment in life.

Michelle Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. On Wednesday, she made the rounds in Charlotte, N.C. talking to groups of delegates. The way to fight back, she said, was for delegates to step up their person-to-person ground game aimed at winning more votes for her husband.

Thirty years ago, shouting, sweating traders thronged the trading pits of Chicago's exchange markets in barely controlled chaos. Today, a lot of the trading has left the pits and gone electronic, leaving Chicago's trading pits tamer places.

The superPAC spent nearly $6 million on largely negative ads last week, and still the candidate won Ohio's crucial primary by less than 1 percent. Experts can't measure the effectiveness of superPAC advertising. But some believe it is discouraging voters from going to the polls.

The airline industry predicts it will see a 4 percent increase in passengers between June 1 and Aug. 31. The travel rush is contributing to the long waits at airport security checkpoints.