As hope fades, so do vigils
The vigils were supposed to be held every night until the girls came home. More than 200 people showed up at the first one to pray for the safe return...
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Sisters’ disappearance taking toll on local kids
During the day, twin brothers Blake and Kevin Lamb have been their usual giggling, 10-year-old selves since their friend Tionda Bradley and her little sister Diamond vanished. But when they...
Neighbors battle fears with prayers, marches
The Lake Grove Village apartment complex on the South Side is the kind of place where people with low incomes and high hopes move on their way up. The privately...
Police await new leads after TV profile of case
On the ninth day since her daughters vanished, Tracey Bradley still held out hope as well-wishers swarmed her South Side home and authorities readied to pounce on desperately needed tips...
Store security tape buoys hopes
An image of two young girls resembling a pair of South Side sisters missing for a week was captured by surveillance video Tuesday at a grocery just three blocks from...
Hunt for girls changes focus
FBI agents on Wednesday spent hours searching the home and garage of a man who was one of the last people to see the young South Side sisters who disappeared...
Struggle for power
A former child preacher once known as "Wonderboy," Rev. Al Sharpton has patterned much of his adult career as a political activist after Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. From Sharpton's New...
`I’m not a blackmailer,’ mother of Jesse Jackson’s child says
The mother of Rev. Jesse Jackson's out-of-wedlock child ended four months of silence Monday, saying she has grown worried about her reputation and that she wants Jackson to formalize a...
Jackson faces suit for child support
Karin Stanford, the mother of Rev. Jesse Jackson's out-of-wedlock child, has filed a civil lawsuit in California seeking formal child-support payments and visitation arrangements for their 23-month-old daughter, attorneys for...
MORAL GUARDIAN FACES HIS OWN CREDIBILITY CRISIS
One Sunday morning during the 1988 presidential race, Rev. Jesse Jackson stood before a black Baptist congregation in Mobile, Ala. Midway through a sermon on sin and redemption, virtue and...