Police arrest 2 in Roscetti case
On Jan. 11, just 37 days after four men were exonerated in the 1986 murder of medical student Lori Roscetti, a man called Chicago police to reveal a secret he...
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Abduction suspect was accused before
It happened first in 1987, when Sheila Matthews offered to watch a friend's child for a few days while living in Seattle. Matthews moved the 2-year-old girl 180 miles away,...
Police widen hunt for kidnapped girl
Chicago police distributed thousands of fliers, fielded tips from as far away as Arizona and sent bulletins nationwide Wednesday as the hunt widened for a 16-month-old girl and the mysterious...
Hillard criticized in naming of captain
A Chicago police lieutenant has been promoted to a top supervisory post in a heavily Latino district where she authored a controversial report four years ago that included stereotypical descriptions...
Man charged with 6 more murders
Seventeen months after he was first suspected in a series of murders that haunted the Far South Side's Roseland neighborhood, a man described by police as "a loner" who sought...
Girl died after parents hit her 160 times, court told
Even veteran prosecutors were stunned by the case outlined in court Tuesday: A South Side couple were accused of flogging their 12-year-old daughter to death with a 5-foot stretch of...
Crackdown on parolees gets results
Some 14,781 convicts were sent back to prison last year for violating the terms of their parole, more than double the number returned during 1998, the year before the state...
Testing equipment in short supply
With the anthrax scare growing, fire departments, hazardous materials teams and environmental health officials around the country are racing to buy thousands of test kits that can quickly detect anthrax,...
Testing equipment in short supply
With the anthrax scare growing, fire departments, hazardous materials teams and environmental health officials around the country are racing to buy thousands of test kits that can quickly detect anthrax,...
City works to fine-tune crisis plan for disasters
In the moments after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center in New York, Chicagoans got their first, if sketchy, glimpse of how their leaders would react if Chicago...