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SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) The older sister of one of the South Elgin High School students killed in a Bartlett crash in August has been charged in the incident, the Kane County States Attorneys Office said Thursday.

I was born famous, Carrie Fisher said. The daughter of two of Hollywoods biggest stars of the 1950s actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher she would lead a life of inescapable fame, and the privilege and chaos that came with it.

BEIJING The United States and China may be involved in a trade war, but the Chinese shoppers at an American wholesaler were at war with one another this week in a pitched battle that forced the warehouse store to close early.

Ever fantasize about fleeing the winter cold and getting in on the ground floor of a beachfront-real-estate deal in which you double your money in a few years? If youve dreamed that dream, heres how it could turn nightmarish.

The Rev. Eugene Peterson, a Presbyterian minister, biblical scholar and author whose writings have shaped the thinking of pastors and church people and whose colloquial translation of the Bible, The Message, has sold millions of copies, died Oct. 22 at his home in Lakeside, Mont. He was 85.