Republican State Senator Bill Brady Has opened up a 7-point lead over embattled Governor Pat Quinn in Illinois' gubernatorial race, according to a recent Rasmussen poll.

India has imposed a curfew on Kashmir and squashed nonviolent rallies. Now a cycle of retaliation between rock-throwing boys and gun-wielding security forces has set in.

Thursday morning the price of west texas crude oil rose more than 1.3% to top $78 per barrel despite a spike in U.S. stocks as reported Wednesday morning by the EIA.

Home to many of the early John Wayne Westerns, Republic Studios will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in late September with local festivities planned around the event.

Daytime talk show has political observers split over whether Obama on 'The View' will help or hurt his image.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center in New York, one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations in the world, slammed director Oliver Stone over anti-Semitic remarks made in a London Sunday Times article in which Stone called the Holocaust over-rated by the media because so many Jews controlled the press.