John Schmeltzer

What's happening: Nearly 70 Greyhound buses, owned by Naperville-based Laidlaw International Inc., have been operating non-stop since Wednesday when the evacuation of the New Orleans Superdome began. Why: Tens of...

What's happening: Amtrak's City of New Orleans passenger trains, which carry 520 people daily between Chicago and New Orleans, were stopped in Memphis Thursday but extended to Jackson, Miss. by...

Trucks filled with relief supplies rumbled towards Gulf Coast cities Thursday while barges floated down the Mississippi River carrying corn and soybeans. A major railway reopened its freight line to...

Publishers Weekly says Kevin Trudeau, author of the book, "Natural Cures `They' Don't Want You to Know About," is the nation's current best-selling non-fiction writer. But the New York State...

Twice a week, Kathleen Kielbasa drives her 1997 Jeep Cherokee from Algonquin to Des Plaines to visit her elderly mother, helping her with shopping and other chores. Now, as gas...

You had a feeling that a diet based on Canadian bacon and cheeseburger patties was too good to last, didn't you? Millions tried the low-carbohydrate approach to losing weight. And...

A union representing aircraft maintenance workers at United Airlines is disputing $5.9 million in bills submitted by lawyers helping the company reorganize in bankruptcy court. The International Federation of Professional...

The nation's largest railroad moved to help relieve a nagging rail bottleneck in Chicago, promising to centralize signals in Iowa and improve rail yards in Chicago. But the extensive--and expensive--plan...