Gary Mays

The village's new teen court has tried its first case, but the program already needs more volunteer jurors to scrutinize peers accused of misdemeanors. Teen court was established recently as...

Ending a frantic, weeklong search, police on Sunday recovered the truck sought in connection with the hit-and-run accident that killed three girls in Crete Township. Chicago police said they turned...

During the Civil War, when women did not have the right to vote and were barred frequently from stating their opinions in public, they found a voice in the multihued...

Although flood waters were slowly receding in the far north and northwest suburbs Wednesday, their effects are expected to spill over into the holiday weekend--and could even ripple into groceries...

With the clouds and their incessant rain gone, the sun seemed a ray of hope Tuesday for those facing the flood waters in Lake and McHenry Counties. But those exhausted...

With a history of gang-banging and drug abuse he would just as soon forget, Edward Butler might seem like the most unlikely of heroes. But police on Sunday praised Butler...

Recognizing that many women must clear a unique set of hurdles to conquer addictions to drugs and alcohol, a social-service agency has responded by starting a program especially for them....

The staff of the Northwestern Chronicle will have to hold their staff meetings in the student lounge and head for a private shop to do their photocopying if student government...

A barroom dispute in unincorporated Wadsworth turned violent when a Round Lake Beach man allegedly stabbed another man outside the tavern, authorities said Thursday. Lake County Sheriff's police said the...

Police say smoke detectors likely would have saved the lives of a toddler and a preschooler who were killed last month in a house fire and have charged a relative...