Hale calls murders `heinous’
White supremacist Matthew Hale released a statement through his mother Thursday condemning the killings of a federal judge's husband and mother, calling the murders a "heinous crime." Despite Hale's attempt...
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Cops tell of sex tapes at home of teacher
Berwyn police on Thursday said they seized Polaroid photographs of bound female students and adult bondage videos from the home of a longtime band teacher accused of sexually abusing 16...
Teacher’s arrest stirs skeptics
A longtime elementary-school band teacher's arrest on sexual abuse charges--and conflicting accounts from police and school officials about who might have known what and when--has left many in working-class Berwyn...
School hid letter, suit says
South Berwyn Elementary School District 100 officials concealed a 1999 letter in which three 10-year-old girls said they were molested by band teacher Robert Sperlik Jr., then misled parents about...
Berwyn district’s actions are defended
The former superintendent of South Berwyn Elementary School District 100 and a attorney for the district on Tuesday disputed police contentions that two reprimands of band teacher Robert Sperlik Jr....
Teacher had ’01 reprimands
A longtime South Berwyn School District 100 band teacher charged last week with sexually abusing five students was twice reprimanded in 2001 for "inappropriate touching" of students, but school officials...
Insanity defense to face a test
Steven M. Tomporowski has admitted killing his parents and his uncle in the family's remote Wisconsin farmhouse in February, yet his attorney argues that the Westchester teenager was not responsible...
Screams, then silence
The odds of survival were only slightly better than even. Myrtle Bailey, 58, a church secretary on her first gambling trip to Tunica, Miss., had walked to the back of...
Elmhurst suspect was to give up guns
An Elmhurst man in custody Monday in the fatal shooting of a high school student pledged three times in the last two years to turn over to police any guns...
Some in Maywood seek to secede
Fed up with what he sees as lackluster services by cash-strapped Maywood after more than 30 years of living in the village, Marvin Harris wants out--not by selling his home,...